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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"capricious"”.
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Are value-added models for high-stakes teacher accountability arbitrary and capricious?
… led to a termination that was arbitrary and capricious. Finally, the paper offers some recommendations to states and school districts on how to implement an evaluation system using value-added models to avoid substantive due process violations.
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Maintaining the Ninth Circuit's Clarified Arbitrary and Capricious Standard of Review after Lands Council v. McNair
… the Ninth Circuit's Clarified Arbitrary and Capricious Standard of Review after Lands Council v. McNair
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Maintaining the Ninth Circuit's Clarified Arbitrary and Capricious Standard of Review after Lands Council v. McNair
… the Ninth Circuit's Clarified Arbitrary and Capricious Standard of Review after Lands Council v. McNair
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Power, Resistance and Ritual: Paternalism on the Clonbrock Estates 1826-1908
… (1930). It portrayed Irish landlords as capricious rackrenters that squeezed tenant farmers for as much as they could and evicted indiscriminately. The struggle, in his opinion, was one in which a homogenous group of oppressed Catholic tenants farmers challenged the might of the …
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an Architecture Manufactum
… into modern design reacquaints us with our own capricious temperaments. As powerful tools of the contemporary world heighten our faculty for exactitude, the prudence remains as to whether and when it is appropriate to do so.
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Moral relativism and reasons for action
… such reasons would have to correspond are too capricious for there to be any universal moral requirements. In Chapter Two, I argue that the moral universalist is free to maintain either (i) that any fully rational, fully informed agent will have a desire that would be served by complying with …
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A Melting Fossil: Constituting Planetary Time In The Cryosphere, 1815-1980
… lumbering, and uniform to something much more capricious—a shift that has profoundly shaped social understandings of environmental change. By tracing how scientific assertions about temporality have materialized, and how this materialization determines (and limits) cultural notions of and …
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Against The World, Against Life: The Use and Abuse of the Autobiographical Genre in the Works of Fernando Vallejo
… the present time and past time are fused in the capricious channel of his memory, confirming that every autobiography, no matter how sincere it is, is also a form of storytelling.
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Christian covenant and liberal freedom : a new approach to the modern marriage crisis.
… it also enslaves the free individual to the capricious whims of the secular state.
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Death becomes her : the death aesthetic in/as fashion advertising
… Bronfen, will engage the often slippery and capricious image-scape of the fashion advertisement in a dialogue. This dialogue seeks neither closure nor answers to the questions posed, but, rather, seeks to weave together a series of disparate texts into a textile that will present to you, the …
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Potential impact of proposed "just cause" legislation on discipline and discharge procedures in nonunion firms
… to all workers, protection from arbitrary and capricious termination from employment. Under such a law, employers could be required to establish just or reasonable cause for discharging an employee. Such legislation has been proposed, but not enacted, in several states. The purpose of the …
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Structural change in the music industry : the evolving role of the musician
… alike to survive and thrive in this dynamic and capricious vocation. The secondary goal is to empower creative practitioners to circumvent systemic injustices that have been perpetrated and perpetuated by the oligopolistic market conditions that have prevailed for most of the century of recorded …
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Transparent animism: a framework for participating in ecological design as agonism
… associative, semi-empirical, iterative, and capricious illustrated by four speculative projects that begin to negotiate the boundaries between human and nonhuman existence through contact with site and empathy for the inputs and outputs of our designs.
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The racial composition of prisons and the conditions of confinement
Historically, Blacks have been subjected to both capricious and extreme methods of social control. Despite a generation of criminal justice reform, many argue that the social inequities of our past are too deeply interwoven in the social fabric to be extricated, resulting in discrimination which …
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Ideas/objects: bringing the made closer to the mind
… architect has only to work with that which is capricious, and nothing more, leaving little to Question or discover. As architects we bring into being through making. We make, discover, Question, and uncover all in an effort to understand more. We make in order to begin to know. The objective of …
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To Know the One True God: Reconciling the God of the Old Testament with the God of the New Testament
… stories that seem to represent Jehovah as harsh, capricious, and unyielding, and puts them in their cultural setting. Though not every act can be completely explained, there is a high degree of similarity between Jehovah and Jesus. The study concludes, therefore, that much of the problem lies with …
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Bird-like: five scenes for sinfonietta (or chamber orchestra)
… scene depicts the flock, with its rapid, capricious shifts between furious motion and repose. The second scene, “Turkey Vultures,” represents the view from the ground of distant, circling buzzards, and the associated detached menace of such an image. The third scene, “Nuthatches and …
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Poe's rhetoric of farce: protean language in the comic tales
… of this study favors the portrait of Poe as a capricious creator. Although original perception and independent judgment are among the highest aims of this critical endeavor, the clarity of objective observations remains the major goal.</p>
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The termination of tenured public school teachers for incompetence
… should not be terminated for arbitrary or capricious reasons, but for just and reasonable cause. 3. The foremost purpose of teacher evaluation is remediation, not termination. Courts have indicated that teachers should be provided adequate time to 'find a solution to a problem. 4. Teachers …
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