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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Federal policy."”.
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Federal policy towards emergency responder interoperability : a path forward
… with police officers on the scene, the federal government began implementing policies, programs, and funding to improve interoperability amongst state and local first responders. This thesis explores the scope and the effectiveness of many of the federal efforts towards interoperability …
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Expiring use restricted properties and federal policy : perspectives from the owners
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Federal Policy Making for Education: A Case Study of the College Housing Loan Program
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The Ideology of the Federal Policy and Institutional Review Boards and its Effects on Research
<p>The Federal Policy for the protection of human subjects in research is built on a positivist ideology which effects Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the research it reviews. An ideological criticism of the regulations through a positivist and postmodernist perspective reveals its initial …
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Lost in translation? : transformations of federal policy intentions for effective professional development in statewide policy
… Teacher professional development is a key policy lever to redress ongoing concerns about teacher quality and student academic success. This policy lever has been and continues to be employed by the U.S. federal government despite modest and uneven results of federally sponsored professional …
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Planning an Inclusive Indigenous Energy Transition: Lessons from Tribal Federal Policy and Energy Development to Date
… energy resources on their land. However, current federal policies, processes, and services prevent tribes from doing so. The goal of this body of work is to inform federal and state leaders how current policies will negatively impact indigenous peoples and perpetuate energy injustice. The paper …
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An Historical Perspective to Examine How Federal Policy Influenced the Definition and Evaluation of Teacher Effectiveness Since 1950
… <p>This study examines the influence of federal government education policies on state teacher evaluation systems and how this influence has shaped the definition and evaluation of an effective teacher over the past 62 years. Teacher evaluations, when used as a proper tool, assist …
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Federal Policy Responses to the 9/11 Attacks: An assessment of the policy making process since September 11, 2001
… boarders. After only a short time, the public policy response began to occur. The main question that this research attempted to address was if the United States government's public policy response, through public laws, was adequate and appropriate to address the threat of a terrorist attack on …
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The National Rural Cable TV Development Task Force : a case study of a "coordinative approach" to federal policy and program implementation
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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A Study of the Desegregation Plan of Urbana School District 116 Elementary Schools: From the Beginning of Implementation to the Present
… its elementary schools. Those themes are the federal shift in policy, interplay of local preferences in federal policy, the Board of Education members' moralistic decision or fear of the federal government, politics of power within the Urbana community, and the myth of the African-American …
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A Consequence of Crisis: A Historical Policy Analysis Examining the Relationship between Economic and Military Crises and the Development and Effects of Early Federal Policy in Higher Education during the Twentieth century, 1934 to 1963
… the effect of economic and military crises on federal policy growth in higher education from 1932 to 1963. By analyzing federal records, campus materials, newspapers and educational association journals, the papers demonstrates that economic crises led the federal government to institute …
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American Digital Election Infrastructure: Policy, Risks, Options
… it? To answer these questions systematically, federal policy and current DEI are analyzed through a risk management lens, including both elite and democratic models of risk management. This analysis suggests that DEI is at risk because federal policy currently enables states to use …
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The history of vocational education's role in educating the disadvantaged, 1800s to 1963
… examined the following questions in relation to federal policy and social practice in education which contributed to the disadvantagement of African-Americans: 1. Did federal policy and social practice in education contribute to the conditions and struggles of the disadvantaged African-Americans? …
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Web Accessibility of the Higher Education Institute Websites Based on the World Wide Web Consortium and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
… supports the non-compliance of websites with the federal policy in general. Studies were performed to analyze the accessibility of fifty-four sample web pages using automated testing via auto-validation tools and using manual testing via assistive technology, followed by a comparative analysis of …
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Forgetting the American Family: How the Family and Medical Leave Act is Insufficient and What Can Be Done to Improve It
… explore where the Act is deficient. In addition, federal policy is compared with states that currently have a more generous paid leave program. In the interest of the effect this issue has on American global competitiveness, United States (U.S.) policy will be examined in reference to peer …
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Impact of a Shift in National Public Policy on Continuing Education Administration in Institutions of Higher Education
… education programs directly resulting from the federal policy shift.
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