1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454957003321

Autore

Franciosi Robert J

Titolo

The rise and fall of American public schools [[electronic resource] ] : the political economy of public education in the twentieth century / / Robert J. Franciosi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, CT, : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40877-1

9786612408779

0-313-05717-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

371.01/0973

Soggetti

Education - United States - History - 20th century

Public schools - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A century of progress? : resources and outcomes in public education -- The school productivity puzzle -- Creating the American high school -- No choice and no voice : the erosion of local control -- Reforming American education.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality. The work focuses on the importance of local control in American public education and how it has been steadily eroded. Franciosi advocates school choice as a way of restoring greater control by parents over their children's schools. This work is distinct among calls of reform in that it takes a skeptical attitude towards the centralized school reform movem



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786320403321

Titolo

Universities and global diversity : preparing educators for tomorrow / / edited by Beverly Lindsay and Wanda J. Blanchett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-88641-9

1-283-84342-0

1-136-88642-7

0-203-83969-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in education ; ; 49

Routledge research in education

Altri autori (Persone)

BlanchettWanda J

LindsayBeverly

Disciplina

370.71

378.016

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Education - Study and teaching (Higher)

Education and globalization

Universities and colleges

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Universities and Global Diversity: Preparing Educators for Tomorrow; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Foreword; Preface to the New Decade; Abbreviations; 1 Universities and GlobalDiversity: PreparingEducators for Tomorrow; Part I Geopolitical andRegional Matters inHigher Education; 2 The University in TurbulentTimes: A ComparativeStudy of the United Statesand Russia; 3 Beyond Globalization:Possibilities and Challengesin Korea and China; 4 Globalization and HigherEducation in the MiddleEast; 5 Shifting Tides in JamaicanHigher Education

Part II Unique Colleges andUniversities and GlobalInfluences6 Historically BlackColleges and Universitiesin New Orleans: Domesticand Global Engagement inthe Post-Katrina Era; 7 Native American Tribal Collegesand Universities: UtilizingIndigenous Knowledges andWays of Knowing to PrepareNative Peoples to Meet theDemands of an



IncreasinglyGlobalized Community; 8 Urban Support Networks:Commuter Urban PublicUniversities in Global Times; 9 Australian Universitiesand the Challenges ofInternationalization; Part III University Students andColleges and Schools ofEducation

10 An International Survey ofHigher Education Students'Perceptions of World-Mindednessand Global Citizenship11 European Union Universitiesand Teacher Preparation; 12 Engaged Research/ers,Transformative Curriculum,and Diversity Policy for TeacherEducation in the Americas: TheUnited States, Brazil, and Belize; 13 Teaching and AdministrativeDevelopment in SouthernAfrica: Illustrations fromMozambique and Angola; Part IV Global Environmentsand Diversity; 14 Universities and GlobalDiversity: Movementtoward Tomorrow; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910616360403321

Titolo

Groundwater and Water Quality : Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering / / edited by Ramakar Jha, Vijay P. Singh, Vivekanand Singh, L.B. Roy, Roshni Thendiyath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-031-09551-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 pages)

Collana

Water Science and Technology Library, , 1872-4663 ; ; 119

Disciplina

628.114

551.49

Soggetti

Earth sciences

Physical geography

Water

Hydrology

Natural disasters

Earth Sciences

Earth System Sciences

Natural Hazards

Hidrologia d'aigües subterrànies

Qualitat de l'aigua



Canvi climàtic

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Identification of the parameters to estimate the capillary rise from shallow groundwater table using field crop experiments -- Study of Groundwater Table fluctuation in the command area of Bhagwanpur Distributary of the Eastern Gandak Project -- Assessment of heavy metals in sediments from exploratory wells for riverbank filtration sites impacted by extreme environmental conditions using principal component analysis -- Simulation of re-aeration coefficient using ANFIS and ARIMA models -- Identification of unknown number of clandestine groundwater pollution source locations and their release flux histories - by Anirban Chakraborty and Om Prakash. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with topics of current interest, such as climate change, floods, drought, and hydrological extremes. The impact of climate change on water resources is drawing worldwide attention these days, for water resources in many countries are already stressed and climate change along with burgeoning population, rising standard of living, and increasing demand are adding to the stress. Further, river basins are becoming less resilient to climatic vagaries. Fundamental to addressing these issues is hydrological modelling which is covered in these books. Further, integrated water resources management is vital to ensure water and food security. Integral to the management is groundwater and solute transport. The books encompass tools that will be useful to mitigate the adverse consequences of natural disasters. This book provides many new and innovative methods to assess groundwater and estimate water pollution. Groundwater recharge, solutetransport, ground water modelling are some of the important variable used to estimate the groundwater movement, hydraulic gradient and pollution movement. The water quality is another important variable of river Ganga and its tributaries in India and other rivers over the globe. .