books about: reform     books:       The Age of Reform10 reviews Richard Hofstadter Vintage, 1960 Richard Hofstadter: An Enduring Influence Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) was a prolific writer and commentator on the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras, a founding member of the "Consensus School" of American history, and a scathing critic of the conservatism of his day. Often portrayed, in his day and since, as the "finest and also most humane historical intelligence of our generation", Hofstadter was one of the most distinguished ...             American Government: Roots and Reform, 2009 Edition (10th Edition) (MyPoliSciLab Series)4 reviews Karen O'Connor, Larry J. Sabato Longman, 2009 An encouragement for my role as a student and citizen I bought this book for a PSC summer course. I'm a journalism major, so not only did I find the course helpful, but I found this textbook incredibly personal and up-to-date. Obviously, this is the 2009 edition, so in the future, it may not be as highly-praised; but being as Obama has served his first few months in office, and this textbook included the 2008 elections, I found it a remarkable ...             So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools4 reviews Charles M. Payne Harvard Education Press, 2008 A fine and even handed review of the reform movement This is an exceptionally fine and well balanced review of the reform movement. Many believe that reforming urban schools should be easy, and many have tried, from the left and the right to bring reform over the last twenty years only to learn that it isn't so easy after all. This book is full of interviews with influential reformers and with research about their programs. The author himself is ...             Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (Harvard Contemporary China Series)1 review Harvard University Press, 2007 An excellent compilation on grassroots political reform This comprehensive collection edited by Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman explores recent trends in grassroots political reform in China. With contributions by well-established China scholars and rising stars alike, this volume offers a detailed view into reform attempts to restrain arbitrary and corrupt authorities and enhance overall accountability at the grassroots level. The authors do not ...             The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe7 reviews Steven Ozment Yale University Press, 1981 Reforms and Re-formations It is quite amazing that of all the books that exist on the Protestant Reformation, very few chart the intellectual and theological history as being the primary moving force of the Protestant movement. It is still further disheartening that many books wish to treat the Reformation as if it were some sort of absolute novelty and break with the whole of the medieval Western European tradition. ...             Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition Manning Marable University Press of Mississippi, 2007 Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the divergent elements of political, social, and ...             Essentials of American Government: Roots and Reform, 9th Edition4 reviews Karen O'Connor, Larry J. Sabato, ... Longman, 2009 New The product arrived very quickly and in great condition. It was new and I experienced no problems with the sender.             Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform11 reviews Sharon Hays Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Every woman in America should read this book I picked up this book to do a research paper on the topic of welfare reform. This book has been both enlightening and frightening in its information and the arguments put forth by the author. The research is amazingly thorough and well documented throughout the text. Hays points out many contradictions concerning the goals set forth by the Personal Responsibility Act. The bottom line is that ...             American Government: Roots and Reform, 2009 Alternate Edition (9th Edition) Karen O'Connor, Larry J. Sabato Longman, 2009 Guided by the belief that readers must first understand the origins of American government to fully understand the issues facing the United States today, this market-leading text offers the strongest coverage of both history and current events of any college textbook devoted to American politics. From hallmark features like "The Living Constitution" to new features like the illustrated historical timelines, American Government: Continuity and ...             Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System3 reviews Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007 Just OK This book is comprised of many articles discussing healthcare policy issues. I would have liked to seen some discussing questions afterward as a means of critically thinking but I guess that is what professors are for. Other than that, the text brings up good topics regarding the state of our healthcare system.             The Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1850-1890 (Second Edition) (The Norton History of Modern Europe)2 reviews Norman Rich W. W. Norton & Company, 1976 Good lightweight intro to the period This is the second book in the Norton History of Modern Europe which I have read, the first being Felix Gilbert's The End of the European Era (1890 to the Present), which is the last book in the Norton series and is highly recommended. This book is quite brief at 250 pages; however these pages are filled with very useful information about the period, more so than `scholarly tomes' with ...             School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Richard F. Elmore Harvard Education Press, 2004 Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn't automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where their students are in their academic development. Low-performing schools, and the people who work in them, don't know what to do. If they did, they would be doing ...             The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass ...8 reviews Robert Evans Jossey-Bass, 2001 The Real Side of School Change According to Evans, the goal of this immensely readable and practical book is to help school leaders "implement change in ways that truly `take'." He has divided this project into three parts. In the first, he describes the nature of change; in the second, the dimensions of change; and in the third, the dynamics of leading innovation. Evans' book is perhaps different from others in that he looks ...             Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton Studies in American Politics: ... Eric M. Patashnik Princeton University Press, 2008 Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted. Why do certain highly praised policy reforms endure while others are quietly reversed or eroded away? Patashnik peers into some of the most ...             The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War6 reviews Alan Brinkley Vintage, 1996 Insightful This book is really fundamental for understanding both the New Deal and the Liberal tradition it engendered. The book's title evokes two prior famous books; Hofstader's The Age of Reform and Lowi's End of Liberalism. Brinkley positioned this book as a bridge between Hofstader's description and analysis of the Progressive movement and Lowi's analysis of the disintegration of Liberalism. ...             Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison Ann Chih Lin Princeton University Press, 2002 Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prison, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of becoming repeat offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programs now would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who finds that little attention has been given to how these programs are actually implemented and why they tend to fail. In Reform in the Making, she not ...             Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-19352 reviews Robyn Muncy Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 A Unique Look at Progressive Era Reform to the New Deal In "Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform," Robyn Muncy described a "continuity of reform activities among America's middle-class, [Protestant] women" between the Progressive era and the New Deal. Muncy explained that, by reconciling traditional female roles with professionalization, these women reformers were able to create a "female dominion" in the filed of child welfare. ...             Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every ...38 reviews Howard Dean Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009 A Great Presentation on What is Needed in Health Care Howard Dean makes an easily understood presentation of the crisis in health care and what he proposed will resolves these problems. Dean was distressed to see how often health care insurers stopped covering someone once they became ill. He notes the Congressional Budget Office calculates that, in the individual health care insurance market, that 29% of premiums pay for administrative costs. He ...             Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform8 reviews David Tyack, Larry Cuban Harvard University Press, 1997 Best Brief Intro to Educational Reform in the US Tinkering Toward Utopia is simply the best brief introduction to the history of educational reform in the US available. Anyone with a genuine interest in historical explanations of why grand schemes of school reform fail and why "crisis" is the way the US has tended to view its need for school reform, will be rewarded by this clearly written account. The book substitutes complex historical ...             Class And Schools: Using Social, Economic, And Educational Reform To Close The Black-white Achievement Gap7 reviews Richard Rothstein Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College, 2004 Well researched defense of public education I looked to Rothstein's book for a thoroughly documented defense of public education in light of its inability to resolve fundamental inequalities. I was not disappointed but those who seek feasible proposals to remedy the problem will not find it here. The basic solution seems to be to extend the public education system into early childhood. I see a number of problems: 1. if we cannot afford ...              search for books 1890-1935, achievement, affordable, alternate, black-white, comparative, contemporary, educational, essentials, government, grassroots, healthcare, historical, implementation, innovation, intellectual, international, jossey-bass, liberalism, mypoliscilab, nationalism, performance, persistence, perspectives, political, prescription, reconstruction, reformation, resistance, tinkering books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen outdoor living: Liberty Garden Products 647 Manger 125-Foot Capacity Three Point Steel ... home  impressum - about us