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Targeting Investments in Children
Fighting Poverty When Resources Are LimitedEdited by Phillip B. Levine and David J. Zimmerman
University of Chicago Press, 2010
A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government’s definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects, resulting in poor educational, labor market, and physical and mental health outcomes for adults. These problems have long been recognized, and there are numerous programs designed to alleviate or even eliminate poverty; as these programs compete for scarce resources, it is important to develop a clear view of their impact as tools for poverty alleviation.
Targeting Investments in Children tackles the problem of evaluating these programs by examining them using a common metric: their impact on earnings in adulthood. The volume’s contributors explore a variety of issues, such as the effect of interventions targeted at children of different ages, and study a range of programs, including child care, after-school care, and drug prevention. The results will be invaluable to educational leaders and researchers as well as policy makers.
Teaching Information Literacy
50 Standards-Based Exercises for College StudentsJoanna M. Burkhardt
American Library Association, 2010
Teaching With Student Texts
Essays Toward an Informed PracticeJoseph Harris
Utah State University Press, 2010
Harris, Miles and Paine ask: What happens when the texts that students write become the focus of a writing course? In response, a distinguished group of scholar/teachers suggests that teaching with students texts is not simply a classroom technique, but a way of working with writing that defines composition as a field.
In Teaching with Student Texts, authors discuss ways of revaluing student writing as intellectual work, of circulating student texts in the classroom and beyond, and of changing our classroom practices by bringing student writings to the table. Together, these essays articulate a variety of ways that student texts can take a central place in classroom work and can, in the process, redefine the ways our field talks about writing.
Test and Evaluation of Aircraft Avionics and Weapon Systems
Robert E. McShea
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2010
Test and Evaluation of Aircraft Avionics and Weapon Systems
Robert E. McShea
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014
The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation
Politics of a New Millennial MestizajePancho McFarland
Michigan State University Press, 2013
The Complete Collections Assessment Manual
A Holistic ApproachMadeline M. Kelly
American Library Association, 2020
Assessment is increasingly integral to building, managing, and justifying library collections. Unfortunately, assessment can also be a daunting undertaking. And though every institution is unique, as this manual demonstrates, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Spanning both concept and practice, Kelly offers a holistic assessment framework suitable to a variety of collections and contexts. With a structure that makes it applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students, this manual
- introduces foundational assessment methodologies then provides concrete guidance on how to contextualize those methodologies within a holistic collections assessment program;
- covers topics such as assessment goals, assessment stakeholders, selecting data and methodologies, working through project constraints, and project planning;
- includes sample assessment program structures and other useful templates;
- provides step-by-step instructions for more than a dozen specific methodologies, describing which aspect of the collection is being measured, what goals the methodology can address, technological requirements, recommended visualizations, and other helpful pointers; and
- shares best practices for communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders about assessment projects, with sample communication plans that can be easily adapted.
The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment
Rabel Burdge
University Press of Colorado, 2015
The Future of Meta-Analysis
Kenneth W. Wachter
Russell Sage Foundation, 1990
The Ills of Aid
An Analysis of Third World Development PoliciesEberhard Reusse
University of Chicago Press, 2002
Very few critiques of foreign development aid have approached the subject from the perspectives of organizational, rural, or epistemic sociology. The Ills of Aid combines all three, and points toward fundamental solutions: more direct accountability to the primary funding base—the international taxpayer—and the privatization of aid. Learned, pragmatic, and important, The Ills of Aid is essential reading for all in the field.Organization, other international and bilateral development programs, and development financing institutions. His field experience embraces more than forty countries.
The Library Assessment Cookbook
Aaron W. Dobbs
Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2017
The Market Comes to Education in Sweden
An Evaluation of Sweden's Surprising School ReformsAnders Bjorklund
Russell Sage Foundation, 2005
The Mismeasure of Progress
Economic Growth and Its CriticsStephen J. Macekura
University of Chicago Press, 2020
Beginning with the rise of the growth paradigm in the 1940s and 1950s and continuing through the present day, The Mismeasure of Progress is the first book on the myriad thinkers who argued against growth and the conventional way progress had been measured and defined. For growth critics, questioning the meaning and measurement of growth was a necessary first step to creating a more just, equal, and sustainable world. These critics argued that focusing on growth alone would not resolve social, political, and environmental problems, and they put forth alternate methods for defining and measuring human progress.
In today’s global political scene—marked by vast inequalities of power and wealth and made even more fraught by a global climate emergency—the ideas presented by these earlier critics of growth resonate more loudly than ever. Economic growth appealed to many political leaders because it allowed them to avoid addressing political trade-offs and class conflict. It sustained the fiction that humans are somehow separate from nonhuman “nature,” ignoring the intimate and dense connections between the two. In order to create a truly just and equitable society, Macekura argues, we need a clear understanding of our collective needs beyond growth and more holistic definitions of progress that transcend economic metrics like GDP.
The Quality Infrastructure
Measuring, Analyzing, and Improving Library ServicesSarah Anne Murphy
American Library Association, 2013
The Social Benefits of Education
Jere R. Behrman and Nevzer Stacey, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 1997
The Starting Line
Latina/o Children, Texas Schools, and National Debates on Early EducationBy Robert Crosnoe
University of Texas Press, 2020
How can we create high-quality learning environments for children from socially, politically, and economically marginalized groups? How do early childhood programs help to overcome the challenges created by poverty? Seeking to answer these questions, The Starting Line delves into the ups and downs of early education programs serving Latinas/os in Texas, using the state as a window into broader debates about academic opportunity and the changing demographics of the United States.
Immersing readers in the day-to-day activities of Texas's early childhood education programs, Robert Crosnoe illuminates how significant obstacles can stymie the best intentions. Crosnoe pays particular attention to the complex connections among classrooms, schools, families, and communities, as well as the frequently unfolding interplay of educational philosophies. The result is a story highlighting the promises of early childhood education, the perils faced in attempting to fulfill them, and the degree to which Texas stands at the forefront of some larger movements and lags behind in others.
Giving voice to bilingual educators and low-income Latina/o families, this book is a timely exploration of the strengths and needs of what will soon be the largest share of the US child population.
Toxic Feedback
Helping Writers Survive and ThriveJoni Cole
University Press of New England, 2006