Campaigning for Real Choices for All Children
Author | : Child Poverty Action Group, Leicester (GB) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Child Poverty Action Group, Leicester (GB) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Virginia Walden Ford |
Publisher | : DC Parents for School Choice |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780974983059 |
How to win the battle to bring opportunity scholarships to your state, based on the dramatic story and ultimately successful campaign of D.C. Parents for School Choice: Get the inside story on this grassroots effort and empower parents for your own campaign. This book teaches parents how to fight to free children from failing schools. It equips you to speak out and secure school choice so that the right learning environment can be given to each child. You get both instruction and inspiration in this compelling, candid book.
Author | : Douglas J. Amy |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2002-09-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231500750 |
There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular to our winner-take-all approach to electing officials. Douglas Amy demonstrates that switching to proportional representation elections—the voting system used in most other Western democracies, by which officials are elected in large, multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties—would enliven democratic political debate, increase voter choice and voter turnout, ensure fair representation for third parties and minorities, eliminate wasted votes and "spoliers," and ultimately produce policies that better reflect the public will. Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
Author | : Douglas J. Amy |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : 0231125496 |
There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular to our winner-take-all approach to electing officials. Douglas Amy demonstrates that switching to proportional representation elections--the voting system used in most other Western democracies, by which officials are elected in large, multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties--would enliven democratic political debate, increase voter choice and voter turnout, ensure fair representation for third parties and minorities, eliminate wasted votes and "spoliers," and ultimately produce policies that better reflect the public will. Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
Author | : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
Publisher | : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : 0886273986 |
Author | : David Archard |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780415305839 |
Offering a serious and sustained philosophical examination of children's rights, David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to the topic. The second edition is fully revised and updated and include a new preface and two new chapters.
Author | : Lloyd H. Steffen |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608996921 |
"Yitzhak Rabin once said, 'You don't make peace with your friends, you make peace with your enemies.' Lloyd Steffen has taken a huge step in the direction of peace among enemies in this reader on abortion. He brings together the responsible views from all sides of this critical controversy. We have a long way to go to peace, but peace begins with listening."-- Susan Thistlethwaite, Professor of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary"Lloyd Steffen has assembled a superb reader on abortion. It includes the most important religious and ethical discussions of this complex and divisive subject, and many different audiences should find it quite valuable. I look forward to an opportunity to use it in my own teaching."-- James F. Childress, Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
Author | : Patrick J. McGuinn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Education is intimately connected to many of the most important and contentious questions confronting American society, from race to jobs to taxes, and the competitive pressures of the global economy have only enhanced its significance. Elementary and secondary schooling has long been the province of state and local governments; but when George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it signaled an unprecedented expansion of the federal role in public education. This book provides the first balanced, in-depth analysis of how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. Patrick McGuinn, a political scientist with hands-on experience in secondary education, explains how this happened despite the country's long history of decentralized school governance and the longstanding opposition of both liberals and conservatives to an active, reform-oriented federal role in schools. His book provides the essential political context for understanding NCLB, the controversies surrounding its implementation, and forthcoming debates over its reauthorization. how the struggle to define the federal role in school reform took center stage in debates over the appropriate role of the government in promoting opportunity and social welfare. He places the evolution of the federal role in schools within the context of broader institutional, ideological, and political changes that have swept the nation since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, chronicles the concerns raised by the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, and shows how education became a major campaign issue for both parties in the 1990s. McGuinn argues that the emergence of swing issues such as education can facilitate major policy change even as they influence the direction of wider political debates and partisan conflict. McGuinn traces the Republican shift from seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education to embracing federal leadership in school reform, then details the negotiations over NCLB, the forces that shaped its final provisions, and the ways in which the law constitutes a new federal education policy regime - against which states have now begun to rebel. and that only by understanding the unique dynamics of national education politics will reformers be able to craft a more effective national role in school reform.
Author | : Helen Jameson |
Publisher | : Nelson Thornes |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780748733477 |
Written for people who are planning, starting or running a nursery, this book provides an integrated approach to relevant business and child-care issues. It includes advice on market research, planning and acquiring premises, promoting the nursery, finance, banking, and managing a nursery business, including the management of staff. There are chapters on providing for children and working with their parents, and regular check-lists for the development of action plans.
Author | : Mary Segers |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1998-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1461636426 |
Should the wall of separation between church and state be permeable or inviolable? This question has been hotly contested since the nation's founding and contentious debates persist today. With a collection of the most significant documents and an introduction by Clarke E. Cochran that provides the historical context of the debate, prominent scholars Mary Segers and Ted Jelen debate the impact of organized religion on the democratic process, examine its influence on political discourse, and discuss its significance for the creation of public policy. The authors illuminate the constitutional implications of using religion to cultivate public morality and discuss the complexities of creating a civic-minded citizenry in a pluralistic society.