Monitoring school quality [[electronic resource] ] : an indicators report / / Daniel P. Mayer, John E. Mullens, Mary T. Moore

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910690922703321
• Autore: Mayer Daniel P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, , 2000
• Collana: Statistical analysis report
• Altri autori (Persone): MooreMary T; MullensJohn E
• Soggetti: Educational evaluation - United States; Educational indicators - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Explores why some schools may be better than others at helping students learn, reviews 13 characteristics of schools, classrooms, and teachers that are most likely related to school quality and student learning. For each indicator, the report identifies where national data are currently available and reliable. It assesses the current status of our schools by examining and critiquing these national indicator data. The report is designed for policymakers, researchers, and others interested in assessing the strength of our schools."; "NCES 2001-030."; Paper version for sale by U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs.; Title from title screen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

The changing face of health care social work [[electronic resource] ] : opportunities and challenges for professional practice / / Sophia F. Dziegielewski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786884703321
• Autore: Dziegielewski Sophia F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer Pub. Co., LLC, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8261-1943-3
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (484 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/0425
• Soggetti: Medical social work - United States - Methodology; Managed care plans (Medical care) - United States; Hospitals - Case management services - United States; Hospitals - United States - Administration; Social work administration - United States; Medical care - Computer network resources
• 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: pt. I. Understanding the practice of health care social work -- pt. II. Foundation skills necessary in today's health care environment -- pt. III. Fields of clinical social work practice in health care settings -- pt. IV. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This third edition of a best-selling social work text reflects the dramatic changes that have taken place in our health care environment since the second edition was published in 2004-and will likely continue to take place. It is a practical guide for social workers who must navigate our complex health care environment and accept new challenges while adapting to continual change. The book encompasses many facets of professional health care social work within the U.S. health care system, across key health care settings and with numerous different patient populations. The book is also a call to

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant : Volume IV, 1858-1864

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910591180503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fordham University Press, 1984
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetti: Biography: general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The years just before and during the Civil War marked the high point of Bryant's influence on public affairs, which had grown steadily since the Evening Post had upheld the democratic Jacksonian revolution of the 1830s. A founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848 and the Republican Party in 1856, Bryant was lauded in 1857 by Virginia anti-slavery leader John Curtis Underwood, who wrote to Eli Thayer, "What a glory it would be to our country if it could elect this man to the Presidency-the country not he would be honored & elevated by such an event." In 1860 Bryant helped secure the Presidential nomination for Abraham Lincoln, and was instrumental in the choice of two key members of his cabinet, Salmon Chase as Secretary of the Treasury, and Gideon Welles as Secretary of the Navy. During disheartening delays and defeats in the early war years, direct communications from Union field commanders empowered his editorial admonitions to such a degree that the conductor of a national magazine concluded that the Evening Post's "clear and able political leaders have been of more service to the government of this war than some of its armies." Bryant's correspondence with statesmen further reflects the immediacy of his concern with military and political decisions. There are thirty-five known letters to Lincoln, and thirty-two to Chase, Welles, war secretary Stanton, and Senators Fessenden, Morgan, and Sumner. This seven-year passage in Bryant's life, beginning with his wife's critical illness at Naples in 1858, concludes with a unique testimonial for his seventieth ; birthday in November 1864. The country's leading artists and writers entertained him at a "Festival" in New York's Century Club, giving him a portfolio of pictures by forty-six painters as a token of the "sympathy" he had "ever manifested toward the Artists," and the "high rank" he had "ever accorded to art." Poets Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier saluted him in prose and verse. Emerson saw him as "a true painter of the face of this country"; Holmes, as the "first sweet singer in the cage of our close-woven life." To Whittier, his personal and public life sounded "his noblest strain." And in the darkest hours of the war, said Lowell, he had "remanned ourselves in his own manhood's store," had become "himself our bravest crown."