1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911143380303321

Autore

Chubb John E

Titolo

Learning from No Child Left Behind : how and why the nation's most important but controversial education law should be renewed / / by John E. Chubb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, c2009

ISBN

9780817949839

0817949836

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 571

Disciplina

379.1/580973

Soggetti

Educational accountability - Law and legislation - United States

Education - Standards - United States

Education - United States - Evaluation

Educational equalization - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Hoover Institution Task  Force on K-12 Education."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Learning from No Child Left Behind; Student Achievement; Lessons and Recommendations; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution Task Forceon K-12 Education; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author, writing on behalf of Hoover's Koret task Force on K?12 Education, presents a convincing case that, despite the controversy it has ignited, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law is making a positive difference and should be renewed. He outlines ten specific lessons and recommendations that identify the strengths and weaknesses of NCLB and offers suggestions for improving the law, building on its current foundation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911142984503321

Titolo

Long before Stonewall : histories of same-sex sexuality in early America / / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; with an afterword by John D'Emilio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

9780814728673

0814728677

9780814728147

0814728146

9781435607293

1435607295

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FosterThomas A

Disciplina

306.76/6097309033

Soggetti

Homosexuality - United States - History - 18th century

Gay people - United States - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster -- Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutierrez -- Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women : gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur -- "Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico : Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown -- "The cry of Sodom" : discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer -- Border crossings : the queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles -- Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis -- Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture : homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons -- An excerpt from Surpassing the love of men / Lillian Faderman -- Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio : an early American romance / Caleb Crain -- The Swan of Litchfield : Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore -- Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann -- The black body erotic and the



republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant -- What's sex got to do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell -- In a French position : radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro -- Afterword / John D'Emilio.

Sommario/riassunto

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions.Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.