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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"great experiment"”.
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The "great experiment" and the Michigan State Normal School: An institutional history analysis
<p>This study examines the historic development of teacher training in the western world and the United States, focusing on the establishment and institutionalization of teacher preparation in the normal schools of the mid-nineteenth century. This study presents the institutional building blocks …
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When Education Ceases to be Public: The Privatization of the New Orleans School System After Hurricane Katrina
… and federal and corporate financing, the "great experiment" had begun. This study strives to cut through the façade of the charter school movement, and to investigate and explain the real motivations of the expected outcomes of the privatizers. Finally, the current injustices caused by the …
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Ship money during the personal rule of Charles I : politics, ideology and the law 1634-1640.
… Council's perspective of "new counsels", as the great experiment In prerogative taxation and as a key to the relationship between central and local governors. This is followed by discussion of the impact of ship money, emphasising the wide variety of response it evoked and the ways In which this …
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'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction
… the boundless social and moral optimism of "The Great Experiment", expresses certitude in the ultimate perfectibility of man in the New World. Equally widely held is the belief that American experience in the twentieth century has prompted something of a retreat from this optimistic position, has …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
Enacted in 1833, Great Britain’s abolition of West Indian slavery confronted the United States with the complex interrelationship between slavery and progress. Dubbed the Great Experiment, British abolition held the possibility of demonstrating free labor more profitable than slavery. Besides …
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Writing insurrection: U.S. literature and the politics of Latin American intervention, 1898 to 2010
… such as Waldo Frank praise Fidel Castro’s great experiment, and Cuban-American journalist and fiction writer Jose Yglesias humanizes rural Cubans under Castro in his memoir In the Fist of the Revolution (1968). My chapter points to a rich but under-examined revolutionary literature in the …