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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"reform efforts"”.
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Pretrial Reform Efforts and their Use in Texas
… bail. This thesis seeks to document pretrial reform efforts that have taken place across Texas while focusing specifically on local cite and release initiatives. In addition, it also provides the findings from semi-structured, in-depth interviews of members of a local grassroots community …
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Judicial Reform Efforts in Ten States, 1950-1961
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Bridging Policy and Education: How Elementary Students Are Impacted by Reform Efforts
… on how state policies that encourage school reform impact student experience. The paper demonstrates what students in these reformed schools experience and what lessons we can learn from their experiences. In particular, the research focuses on engagement levels and the matching of intentions …
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High School Graduates Report on Reform Efforts in Their High School Senior Year
The senior year of high school has long been problematic. It is seen by many as a year of leisure between the rigors of high school and the rigors of college or career that are yet to come. Schools, school districts, teachers, and administrators struggle with ways to make the senior year more …
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A case study of one school’s reform efforts to improve math instruction through coordinated professional development
… school coordinates its professional development efforts, with respect to fourth grade, in mathematics instruction. The qualitative case study gathered information and experiences from six participants. The study took place at a rural, pre- K through fourth grade school in east Alabama. The study …
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The complexity of reform efforts in science curriculum and instruction: a case study of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy chemistry teacher
… study explores how teacher-initiated site-based reform in a specialized STEM school is conceptualized and enacted, how and why curriculum reform ideas change in the process of enactment, what qualities of teacher agency are entailed, how these qualities are acquired, interplayed, become …
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'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': the global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939
… of nation and empire, they tended to view their efforts as politically neutral and even at times anti-imperial. However, I find their efforts to be more mixed and nuanced. Each of the chapters therefore addresses not only the intentions of the USYWCA Secretaries, but also the ways that their …
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From Collaborative Creation to Implementation: The Evolution of a Contract for a Model Program to Finance Child Welfare
Because of on-going reform efforts, rapidly changing business environments, and increasing demands for government services while reducing expenditures, organizations realize government is challenged with social welfare problems that cannot be effectively tackled utilizing our traditional …
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A Case Study of Reform at One Urban High School
… areas. With so many urban high schools failing, reformers have sought ways to improve schools and increase student achievement. Effort toward urban high school reform is occurring across the United States. What happens to a school during the process of reform?</p> <p>The purpose of this case …
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Transforming the tracks: a case for inclusion of high school students as stakeholders in achieving racial equity in academic placement
For many years, equity minded education reforms, instituted through the courts or grassroots efforts, have been introduced in schools to minimize the disparities among students of different socio-economic, racial, and linguistic backgrounds. Opposition and resistance are often high given persons, …
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Handling police misconduct in an ethical way
… been a serious problem in America. Historically, reform efforts have failed due to an organizational culture that is resistant to change. Past reforms have been aimed at individual incidents, disregarding underlying organizational problems. Improving public perception has been the goal of past …
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Sustainability of a comprehensive school reform model from the perspectives of three participating principals
School reform is a deliberate process that requires a strong commitment at all levels. The school leader plays a crucial role in establishing a vision and nurturing an environment that facilitates reform efforts. School reform efforts have witnessed a change in the role of the elementary principal …
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The limits of state building : the politics of war and the ideology of peace
… the technical perspective. I examined seventeen reform efforts in these societies related to security, representation, and revenue. While some institution-building efforts succeeded, many failed and provoked violence or undercut political development. To explain this variation, I propose a theory …
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MAINE'S NEW JUVENILE CODE: A CASE STUDY IN JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
… the United States is largely a history of failed reform efforts. The most significant of these efforts was the establishment of the juvenile court at the turn of the century and the idea of "socialized" juvenile justice on which it was based. Because the objective was rehabilitation rather than …
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Negotiating a Space to Teach Science: Stories of Community Conversation and Personal Process in a School Reform Effort
I conclude that people interested in school reform should consider the following ideas as they work with teachers to implement pedagogical and curricular changes. (1) Teaching is a personal/individual process that takes place within a larger community. This leads to a complex context for working …
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Plan Perquenco and Chile's Indigenous Policies Under the Pinochet Dictatorship, 1976-1988
… continued the goals of earlier agrarian reform efforts, which the military regime ridiculed as ineffective, to argue that the formation of male-headed nuclear families would solve rural economic and cultural stagnation. The administrative structure of Plan Perquenco, however, prevented …
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
Despite reform efforts to broaden historically underrepresented populations across STEM disciplines, the data continues to highlight gaps of achievement across racial demographics. In an effort to address educational inequity, current reform efforts have touted the implementation of learning …
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Judicial reform in Ethiopia
The main theme of this thesis is judicial reform program in Ethiopia. It examines the three basic issues which are central to the administration of justice in Ethiopia, namely efficieny, access to justice as well as accountability and independence. In spite of the wider scope of the reform efforts …
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Examining Teacher Collaboration in a Kindergarten Building: A Case Study
… Americans have identified the need for school reform to better prepare their children to compete on a global level. The author of this dissertation views kindergarten programs and school reform to be at a confluence where school reform efforts are attempting to be met by promoting greater …
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Peer Relations in the Ungraded Primary: An Examination of Friendship and Its Benefits
… primary programs mandated by recent school reform efforts in Kentucky provide a unique opportunity to study peer relations in a mixed-age context. The present study examined patterns of reciprocated friendship in ungraded primary classrooms and their relation to peer- and teacher-rated …
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