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Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0452284597 |
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In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Author | : Neil Safier |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226733564 |
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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
Author | : Daniel Koretz |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674254988 |
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How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated. Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.
Author | : Barbara A. Bardes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Public opinion |
ISBN | : 1442215011 |
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The new edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to public opinion in the United States and describes how public opinion data are collected, how they are used, and the role they play in the U.S. political system. Bardes and Oldendick introduce students to the history of polling and explain the factors a good consumer of polls should know in order to evaluate public opinion data. Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind is the only text to devote significant space to the history.
Author | : Jason G. Gauthier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew L. Yarrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : 9781558498341 |
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Examines the rise of economic thinking in the United States after World War II.
Author | : United States. Bureau of the Census |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Surveys |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Howard Steven Friedman |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1616145692 |
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Compares the United States with other affluent democracies in such areas as health, crime and violence, education, democracy, and equality, and suggests ways the country might improve its standing in these areas.
Author | : Leila Zenderland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2001-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521003636 |
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This book explores intelligence testing in the US through the career of Henry Herbert Goddard.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264685936 |
Download How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people’s lives? How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making addresses this question by presenting comparative evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a focus on 11 LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay).