EDITS des guerres de religion : textes presentés et commentés par / André Stegman

• Record Nr.: UNINA990004041830403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris : Vrin, 1979
• Descrizione fisica: 266 p. ; 22 cm
• Collana: Textes et Documents de la Renaissance ; 2
• Disciplina: 944.028
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: 944.028 STE 1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Vouchers within reason : a child-centered approach to education reform / / James G. Dwyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793381803321
• Autore: Dwyer James G. <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-5017-2384-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages)
• Disciplina: 379.1110973
• Soggetti: Educational vouchers - Law and legislation - United States; Educational vouchers - United States; School choice - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Vouchers and Adult-Centered Legal Reasoning -- 2. Education Reform and Adult-Centered Political Theory -- 3. A Utilitarian Assessment of ; Vouchers -- 4. A Moral Rights-Based Assessment -- 5. Making Sense of Antiestablishment Principles -- 6. The Equal Protection Strategy for Compelling Aid to Religious Schools -- 7. An Introduction to the Real World -- 8. A Moral Assessment of Existing Voucher Programs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Observing the storm of recent debates around school vouchers, James G. Dwyer concludes that the welfare of children has been routinely subordinated to the interests and supposed rights of various groups of adults-parents, teachers, taxpayers, and advocates for ideological causes. Dwyer argues that a truly child-centered approach to education reform would yield dramatically different conclusions regarding the morality and constitutionality of government initiatives to improve public and private schooling in America.Dwyer makes the case that state funding of religious and other private schools is not only permissible, but mandatory, as a moral and constitutional right of the children already in private schools. In Vouchers within Reason, he also demonstrates the necessity of attaching to that funding robust standards for the content and nature of instruction and for treatment of students. These are just the sort of regulatory strings that most current supporters of vouchers fear.In the author's view, vouchers represent an opportunity for states to accomplish what they have been unable to do in the past-namely, to bring academic accountability to religious schools, many of which fail to provide a good secular education. He sees voucher programs that are now in place as morally irresponsible and clearly unconstitutional, however, because they require almost nothing of recipient schools in return for the funding. This book reorients the hot topic of universal school vouchers in a new and vital direction that may change the minds of scholars, educators, and policymakers alike.

New Mecca, new Babylon : Paris and the Russian exiles, 1920- 1945 / / Robert H. Johnston

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781904303321
• Autore: Johnston Robert H (Robert Harold), <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Kingston, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1988
• ISBN: 0-7735-6158-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resourcei (x, 254 pages)
• Disciplina: 944/.3610049171
• Soggetti: Russians - France - History - 20th century; Russians - France - Paris - History - 20th century; Political refugees - France - History - 20th century; Russians - France - Intellectual life - 20th century; Russians - France - Political activity - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Russian; Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Refugees
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Exodus -- Elusive Unity -- Life in France -- Fathers and Sons in Exile -- Ordeals and Triumphs -- Russia and Europe -- Human Dust? -- Dissolution -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Three major waves of emigration from Soviet Russia followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War. While emigrants in the first wave have been identified mainly with a vague notion of aristocratic taxi drivers, Robert Johnston, through a collective biography of the roughly 120,000 Russians who lived in France during 1920-45, in particular in Paris, shows that this first wave of Russian emigrants made a much more significant contribution to French life and to western knowledge of Russia. Paris was the capital of "Russia Abroad," the home of an emigre generation which included figures from every field of Russian culture and every point of the political compass. Divided and diverse, the community was bound together in the hope and expectation of the downfall of Bolshevism and a return to ; Mother Russia. Members of the community believed that their mission in Paris was to preserve Russian culture, language, and liberty, a task which required educating France and the West about the true dangers of Communism. As their time away from Russia increased, however, the exiles found it difficult to preserve their organizations and customs and to resist the assimilation of French ways. Gradually the original refugees died, moved away, or surrendered to French culture: by 1951 only 35,000 Russian refugees remained in all of France. The Russian exiles in Paris lived on the margins of history. But though politically defeated, their struggle to defend what they saw as worthwhile Russian values, their efforts to survive, and their contributions to the life of their country of refuge have something to say to a later age, not least to their exiled "grandchildren", the current third wave of emigrants from the USSR.