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Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.

Dieses Buch, das in die Gebiete, Methoden und Ergebnisse der Extraterrestrischen Physik einführen möchte, wendet sich an ein relativ breites Publikum. Vorausgesetzt werden lediglich Grundkenntnisse der Mathematik und Physik, wie sie in den ersten Semestern eines natur- oder ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studiums erworben werden. Spezielleres Wissen wird im Zusammenhang mit dem jeweils betrachteten Phänomen abgeleitet. Es eignet sich daher sowohl...

In this book the Archbishop presents his conviction that the ecumenical vision of the Orthodx Church is the best response to the forming global conditions.

Written by former Commanding Officer of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad Thomas P. Carney, this volume provides a day-to-day guide for investigating sex crimes.

As the EU and NATO prepare to enlarge, this volume assesses the likely impact on new member states and their neighbours remaining outside these two organizations. Through a combination of thematic and case study chapters it discusses the economic and security implications of enlargement for both ′insiders′ and ′outsiders′.

A synthesis of years of interdisciplinary research and practice, the second edition of this bestseller continues to serve as a primary resource for information on the assessment, remediation, and control of contamination on and below the ground surface.

The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula.

Over 700 color photos display machine made marbles produced from the early 1900s through the early 1930s by the Ohio-based firms, M. F. Christensen & Son Company and the Christensen Agate Company. Among the examples displayed are bricks, cobras, guineas, opaques, slags, single pontil slags, swirls, and hand-gathered swirls. Early slag marbles known as "transitionals" are also featured. Values for the marbles displayed are found in the captions.

Over 500 beautiful color photographs and an informative, succinct text provide a sweeping overview of stunning modern tableware designs. This book presents manufacturers both familiar and less known that revolutionized dining in the mid-twentieth century. Among the pottery firms whose wares are presented are Red Wing, Roseville, Royal China, Salem China, Stangl, Steubenville, Universal, Vernon Kilns, Winart Pottery, and Winfield China. A great...

European migration policies are undergoing significant changes. After three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies. Timely book examining the nature and impact of the changing migration policies in France, Germany and the UK. Analyses the content of new legislation, as well as the policy debate and party political tre...

In the midst of World War I, from April 28 to May 1, 1915, more than a thousand women from Europe and North America gathered in The Hague to discuss proposals for a peaceful end to the war. As one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party, Jane Addams was among the attendees at the International Congress of Women, along with fellow social reformers and peace activists Emily G. Balch and Alice Hamilton. This book contains their journalistic ac...

A thorough comparative analysis of education system performance with quantitative indicators reflecting the current state of education internationally. Across OECD and other countries, governments are seeking more effective approaches t

Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.

Atom- und Quantenphysik führt sorgfältig und leicht verständlich in die Ergebnisse und Methoden der empirischen Atomphysik ein, wobei auch das Rüstzeug der Quantentheorie vermittelt und besonders die Wechselwirkung zwischen Experiment und Theorie herausgearbeitet wird. Die vorliegende achte Auflage enthält neben umfangreichen Aktualisierungen neue Abschnitte zur quantenmechanischen Behandlung des Atoms im Magnetfeld und im elektrischen Feld. W...

Viruserkrankungen von Mensch und Tier, wie etwa Influenza, Masern, Aids oder Maul- und Klauenseuche, sind in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt und neue Forschungsergebnisse und Therapievorschläge zu diesen Krankheiten werden durch die Medien verbreitet und diskutiert. Die molekularen - chanismen der Virus - Wirtsinteraktion werden intensiv untersucht. Viel weniger ist über Viruserkrankungen der Pflanzen bekannt, die aber gleichwohl von großer Bedeutu...

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism...

Interest in semigroup theory and automata is currently on the rise, and the ideas of finite automata are becoming more accepted by the mathematical community. The time is right to begin introducing those ideas to upper-level students in both mathematics and theoretical computer science. This book--the first of its kind--presents a well-motivated introduction to finite automata and semigroup theory and that will serve as a firm foundation for t...

Taking off from her one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury focuses on the lives of more than a dozen characters in this unique fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel.

This work focuses on capitalist production, and analyses capitalism's workings through detailed research and observation of what was the most advanced industrial country of the 19th century.

Terror and History" brings together historians and leading scholars from around the world to examine, document, and reflect on the political and historical category of terror. Breaking with the traditional format of academic journals, the issue delivers short, sharp pieces of political and personal analysis rather than footnoted, monographic articles. Ranging from Guatemala to Palestine, interrogating notions of homeland, and unpacking the myt...