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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Reform movement"”.
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The Economical Reform Movement in England, 1780-1788
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Outcomes of Conversion to Judaism through the Reform Movement 1952-2002
… of converts to Judaism through the Reform Synagogues, 1952-2002, exploring the psychological impact of conversion, the nature of their Jewish identity and the durability of their religious commitment through time. Recognising the large variation in the Jewish practice and attitudes …
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The Leadership of a Superintendent: Putting the California School Reform Movement to Work
… with the intent and the mandates of this massive reform document. During the implementation stage of this legislation, the organizational climate in school districts was ripe for leaders and followers to engage each other in dialogue and debate about the direction and form the legislation would …
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Explanation and Critique of the Iranian Reform Movement: Alternative Discourses for a Conservative Regime
… of the possible political ramifications of the reform movement in Iran since the Islamic Revolution. It focuses on religious intellectual discourses in the context of the intellectual trajectory of Islamic thought from the revolutionary period to the post-revolutionary reformist phase. This …
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Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States
… U.S.-based media outlets framed the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh. While prior research has highlighted media ownership or ideology, this work explores how the national context influences framing across global North and South outlets. Drawing on framing and comparative media systems …
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The school reform movement and high stakes standardized testing: An analysis of factors impacting the academic outcomes of students receiving special education services.
The purpose of this study was to investigate special education outcomes in relation to state standardized testing. It specifically sought to determine if a relationship existed between selected data from the Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) comparing district students receiving …
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Education in the National Interest
… with an interpretation of the 1983 educational reforms that received the greatest publicity with the U.S. Department of Education document A Nation at Risk, which prescribed educational policies intended to serve the national interest. The interpretation of the 1983 reform movement involves a …
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… of this thesis is that The Women's Prison Reform Movement, from 1865-1900, was constructed around both gendered and racial ideologies that linked so-called "proper" womanhood to whiteness and marked black women as subhuman, impure, and unable to be reformed, and that this served to exclude …
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Perceptions of industrial/technology education program leaders regarding minority participation in programs at the collegiate level
… program leaders on the impact of the educational reform movement relative to equity issues. Opinions were solicited to determine the extent the program leaders agreed with 10 indicators of equity, the importance of these indicators in administering their programs, and the present level of …
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College Football in Turmoil: How Violence, Virility and Social Darwinism Defined College Football, 1880-1915
This study investigates the influence of the reform movement within the United States on college football between 1880 and 1915. In response to industrialization and urbanization, reform advocates used sports and athletics to develop America’s youth. Concern mounted from critics that young boys …
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Ars Gallica: The Societe Nationale De Musique and Its Role in French Musical Life, 1871-1891
… explores the origins and effects of the post-war reform movement of which the Societe was one manifestation, and extensive space is given over to an examination of French concert life during the Second Empire and in the twenty years after the Franco-Prussian War, with particular emphasis placed on …
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Housing and the women's movement, 1860-1914
… out to explore the links between the women's movement and the housing reform movement in Britain in the period 1860 to 1914. Both these movements have been well-documented, but the role which women played in housing has received little attention from historians of housing, and conversely, the …
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"College mathematics instruction in transition: A study of reform in a college algebra course for ""at-risk"" students"
… at the college level. The current national reform movement includes initiatives designed to address the failure of mathematics education to meet the needs of underrepresented populations. This research examined an effort to make a college algebra course more effective for ""at-risk"" …
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Robber Barons and Humbuggers: The Rise of Philanthropic Museums in Nineteenth-Century New York
… of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle or upper-class, were combating the vice and poverty that they saw in the diversifying city with a moralizing rhetoric of character building. This paper will show that these two movements, the rise of …
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American Health Care: Justice, Policy, Reform
… care system is seriously flawed and in need of reform. American health care is expensive and rationed by the ability to pay. More than forty-five million Americans lack regular access to health care because they have no health insurance and cannot afford to pay for care on their own. An even …
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The application of interpersonal communication and group dynamics skills as a curriculum component for the professional development of pre- service teachers
… and philosophically in the educational reform movements of the 1830's and 1980's. Within this framework the study argues that interpersonal communication and group dynamics skills training is now a necessary component for the development of professionalism in teacher education programs. …
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The new traditionalist movement: a study of church, state, and economy
… past, emergence of right-wing conservative moral reform movements has resulted in profound changes for our society. Two of the most visible examples would be the 18th amendment establishing the prohibition of alcohol and the movement to destroy communism in America, McCarthyism. since the …
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
The nineteenth-century American physiological reform movement was deeply religious. While historians have noted the moral or religious imperatives intermingled with reformers' dietary recommendations, few have examined why and how a movement to reform the body became religious and how that …
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