• Greg J. Duncan
  • Education
  • 2014-01-01

Restoring Opportunity

The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education

Author: Greg J. Duncan

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

ISBN:

Category: Education

Page: 200

View: 681

In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how—in a time of spiraling inequality—strategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children. The authors offer a brilliant synthesis of recent research on inequality and its effects on families, children, and schools. They describe the interplay of social and economic factors that has made it increasingly hard for schools to counteract the effects of inequality and that has created a widening wedge between low- and high-income students. Restoring Opportunity provides detailed portraits of proven initiatives that are transforming the lives of low-income children from prekindergarten through high school. All of these programs are research-tested and have demonstrated sustained effectiveness over time and at significant scale. Together, they offer a powerful vision of what good instruction in effective schools can look like. The authors conclude by outlining the elements of a new agenda for education reform. Restoring Opportunity is a crowning contribution from these two leading economists in the field of education and a passionate call to action on behalf of the young people on whom our nation’s future depends. Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • Technology & Engineering
  • 2020-10-28

Restoring the Earth - The next decade

Unasylva No. 252 - Vol. 71 2020/1

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

ISBN:

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 140

View: 535

This Unasylva issue aims at showcasing forest and landscape restoration (FLR) opportunities and recent developments that have the power to upscale restoration, in order to achieving the Bonn Challenge pledge and other national and international commitments (Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) Post-2020 Agenda, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Land Degradation Neutrality, Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)) and addressing the needs of the UN Decade 2021-2030 on Ecosystem Restoration. The content adresses thematics of relevance to various audiences: i) flagship restoration initiatives that differ from the so-called “business-as-usual” as they channel more funds, better empower local stakeholders and provide enhanced technical assistance through partners’ coalitions; ii) technical advances that can spread FLR and have a huge potential to be mainstreamed for different reasons (low cost, adaptability, relevance to many ecosystems and contexts, ease of implementation…); iii) the enabling factors for restoration, i.e. coordination, policy environment, resources, knowledge and capacities, as these are the enabling conditions for action to take place on the ground.
  • Ann L. Riley
  • Nature
  • 2016-07-12

Restoring Neighborhood Streams

Planning, Design, and Construction

Author: Ann L. Riley

Publisher: Island Press

ISBN:

Category: Nature

Page: 268

View: 454

Thirty years ago, urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control devices designed to hurry water through cities and neighborhoods with scant thought for aesthetics or ecological considerations. But stream restoration pioneers like hydrologist Ann Riley argued that by restoring ecological function, and with careful management, streams and rivers could be a net benefit to cities, instead of a net liability. Riley has since spearheaded numerous urban stream restoration projects and put to rest the long-held misconception that degraded urban streams are beyond help. What has been missing, however, is detailed guidance for restoration practitioners wanting to undertake similar urban stream restoration projects that worked with, rather than against, nature. This book presents the author's thirty years of practical experience managing long-term stream and river restoration projects in heavily degraded urban environments. Although the case studies are local, the principles, methods, and tools are universal, and can be applied in almost any city in the world.
  • Vahab Aghai Ph .D
  • Political Science
  • 2012-07-25

Obama’S Empty Promises Vanished Hopes

An Analytical Review of a President’S Policy Failures

Author: Vahab Aghai Ph .D

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN:

Category: Political Science

Page: 201

View: 543

Now that the first term of the Obama presidency is nearly over and another presidential election campaign is approaching, this book is especially timely. It summarizes the promises that then candidate Barak Obama made and analyzes President Obamas accomplishments in terms of delivering on those promises. Obamas Broken Promises ventures across the total scope of the U.S. economy, factually and statistically documenting the administrations impact on unemployment, the national debt, poverty, health care, education, housing, energy, trade, foreign relations, and more. Everyone who is planning to vote in November and feels impelled in an era of negative campaigning to base his or her choice on facts rather than attack ads should read this book. It is a bold excursion into the reality of Americas most pressing needs.
  • Henry G. Cisneros
  • 1995-06-01

Empowerment

A New Covenant With America's Communities, President Clinton's National Urban Policy Report

Author: Henry G. Cisneros

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

ISBN:

Category:

Page: 68

View: 527

Presents an entirely different approach to the problems and opportunities of America's cities. Attempts to return work and responsibility to America's distressed urban communities. This new plan is grounded in 4 principles: linking families to work, leveraging private investment in our cities, it is locally driven, and it affirms traditional values (such as: hard work, family, and self-reliance). Contents: the community empowerment agenda, metropolitan America in the 1990s, a firm foundation for economic growth, expanding access to opportunities, and a new vision for a community empowerment partnership.
  • Ezra N. Suleiman
  • Political Science
  • 2003

Dismantling Democratic States

Author: Ezra N. Suleiman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN:

Category: Political Science

Page: 327

View: 385

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  • Darrell M. West
  • Political Science
  • 2014-09-18

Billionaires

Reflections on the Upper Crust

Author: Darrell M. West

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

ISBN:

Category: Political Science

Page: 269

View: 345

Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know. With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson, Michael Bloomberg, David and Charles Koch, George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Donald Trump—as well as international billionaires from around the globe. The growing political engagement of this small supra-wealthy group raises important questions about influence, transparency, and government performance, and West lays bare the wealthification of politics, including: • How billionaires can block appointments and legislation they don't like • Why the supra-wealthy moved into policy advocacy and referenda at the state level • Why billionaires run for office in more than a dozen countries around the world
  • Robert D. Putnam
  • History
  • 2015-03-10

Our Kids

The American Dream in Crisis

Author: Robert D. Putnam

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN:

Category: History

Page: 400

View: 968

A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. We Americans have always believed that those who have talent and try hard will succeed, but this central tenet of the American Dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was. In Our Kids, Robert Putnam offers a personal and authoritative look at this new American crisis, beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich, middle class, and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, brilliantly blended with the latest social-science research. “A truly masterful volume” (Financial Times), Our Kids provides a disturbing account of the American dream that is “thoughtful and persuasive” (The Economist). Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: “No one can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity” (The New York Times Book Review).
  • Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
  • Political Science
  • 1893

Instead of a Book

Author: Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Publisher: Ayer Company Pub

ISBN:

Category: Political Science

Page: 512

View: 688

  • Charlotte Endymion Porter
  • 1887

Shakespeariana

A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakesperian Literature

Author: Charlotte Endymion Porter

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category:

Page: 584

View: 432

With v. 6 was issued "The Teachers' supplement. Conducted by W.S. Allis," no. 1-2, May-Oct. 1889.
  • Stephen Darby
  • Science
  • 2008-02-28

River Restoration

Managing the Uncertainty in Restoring Physical Habitat

Author: Stephen Darby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN:

Category: Science

Page: 328

View: 138

River restoration projects are designed to recreate functional characteristics within a context of physical stability. They tend to focus on the development and application of geomorphic principles for river restoration design. Due to different models obtaining different results on the same problem, incomplete or absent data, and climatic/social/cultural changes, the designers and managers of such projects frequently face high levels of uncertainty. This book will provide a systematic overview of the issues involved in minimizing and coping with uncertainty in river restoration projects. A series of thematic sections will be used to define the various sources of uncertainty in restoration projects and how these show at different points in the life cycle (design, construction and post-construction phases) of restoration projects. The structure of the book will offer a rational theoretical analysis of the problem while providing practical guidance in managing the different sources of uncertainty. A wide range of case studies will be included from Europe, North America and Australasia
  • Thomas Parrish
  • Architecture
  • 2010-09-29

Restoring Shakertown

The Struggle to Save the Historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Author: Thomas Parrish

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

ISBN:

Category: Architecture

Page: 214

View: 354

Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America. The Shakers, an idealistic offshoot of the ascetic Quaker religion, grew to as many as six thousand members in nineteen communities reaching from New England to the Midwest. Lee's experiment, focused mainly on simplicity, celibate communal living, and sexual equality, provided a model of prosperity for more than one hundred years. Founded in 1806, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, was a thriving community located in the center of the bluegrass region. After the Civil War, a steadily shrinking membership resulted in the gradual decline of this remarkable community, and the last remaining Shaker to reside at Pleasant Hill died in 1923. In the years immediately following, it appeared as though the village would fall prey to neglect and a lack of historic preservation. In 1961, however, local citizens formed a private not-for-profit organization to preserve and restore the village and to interpret the rich heritage of the Pleasant Hill Shakers for future generations. Over several years, and against incredible odds, this group succeeded in raising the funds necessary for the restoration projects. By 1968, eight buildings at Shakertown, carefully adapted for modern use while retaining their historical and architectural significance, had been opened to the public. Thomas Parrish's Restoring Shakertown masterfully explains how the Shaker settlement was saved from the ravages of time and transformed into a nationally renowned landmark of historic preservation. In chronicling how the hopes of the early fund-raisers quickly were challenged by the harsh reality of economic hardships, the book serves as a valuable study in modern philanthropy. Parrish also details the village's negotiation of legal challenges and how its final plans for creating awareness of the Shakers' legacy set the standard for later museum developments around the country. In addition to recounting the remarkable history of the formation and eventual demise of the "Shaking Quakers," Parrish presents a dramatic chronicle of the village's evolving fortunes. From describing the challenges of financing the restoration to finding preservation experts to achieve the highest standards of authenticity, Restoring Shakertown reveals the complexities and rewards of the preservation of one of Kentucky's most significant historical and architectural sites.
  • National Research Council
  • Science
  • 2008-12-29

Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades

The Second Biennial Review - 2008

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

ISBN:

Category: Science

Page: 340

View: 588

This book is the second biennial evaluation of progress being made in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a multibillion-dollar effort to restore historical water flows to the Everglades and return the ecosystem closer to its natural state. Launched in 2000 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, CERP is a multiorganization planning process that includes approximately 50 major projects to be completed over the next several decades. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Second Biennial Review 2008 concludes that budgeting, planning, and procedural matters are hindering a federal and state effort to restore the Florida Everglades ecosystem, which is making only scant progress toward achieving its goals. Good science has been developed to support restoration efforts, but future progress is likely to be limited by the availability of funding and current authorization mechanisms. Despite the accomplishments that lay the foundation for CERP construction, no CERP projects have been completed to date. To begin reversing decades of decline, managers should address complex planning issues and move forward with projects that have the most potential to restore the natural ecosystem.
  • Richard Hollis Day
  • Business & Economics
  • 1993

The Markets for Innovation, Ownership, and Control

Author: Richard Hollis Day

Publisher: North-Holland

ISBN:

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 435

View: 598

Three themes are brought together in this volume: innovative activity, managerial performance in the organization of innovations, and markets for ownership and control. In consideration of these themes several specific questions are raised.