The Boston Renaissance

Author : Barry Bluestone,Mary Huff Stevenson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610440714

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The Boston Renaissance by Barry Bluestone,Mary Huff Stevenson Pdf

This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries. Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000033097435

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Overview of Charter Schools by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Paul E. Peterson,Bryan C. Hassel
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815791631

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Learning from School Choice by Paul E. Peterson,Bryan C. Hassel Pdf

While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country. This book examines the evidence from these early school choice programs and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. Paul Peterson makes a strong case for school choice in central cities, and coeditor Bryan Hassel offers the case for charter schools. John E. Brandl offers his vision of school governance in the next century. The book's other contributors--economists, political scientists, and education specialists--provide case studies of the experience with voucher programs in Indianapolis, San Antonio, Cleveland, and Milwaukee; survey charter schools; analyze public school choice; discuss constitutional issues; and study the effects of private education on democratic values. Contributors include David J. Armor, George Mason University; Chester E. Finn Jr. and Bruno V. Manno, Hudson Institute; Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University; Brett M. Peiser, Partnerships in Learning; and Joseph P. Viteritti, New York University.

Author : Yuya Kiuchi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438444802

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Struggles for Equal Voice by Yuya Kiuchi Pdf

While previous scholarship on African Americans and the media has largely focused on issues such as stereotypes and program content, Struggles for Equal Voice reveals how African Americans have utilized access to cable television production and viewership as a significant step toward achieving empowerment during the post–Civil Rights and Black Power era. In this pioneering study of two metropolitan districts—Boston and Detroit—Yuya Kiuchi paints a rich and fascinating historical account of African Americans working with municipal offices, local politicians, cable service providers, and other interested parties to realize fair African American representation and media ownership. Their success provides a useful lesson of community organizing, image production, education, and grassroots political action that remains relevant and applicable even today.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465442383

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston by DK Pdf

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston will lead you straight to the best attractions Boston has to offer. You'll find detailed background information on the best things to do in Boston, from visiting historic Harvard University and taking one of many walking tours to watching a Boston Red Sox game. This best-selling travel guide is packed with beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all Boston's major sights, as well as 3-D aerial views of its most interesting districts. Features include the itinerary planner, Four Great Days Out in Boston, Street Finder mapping throughout, and useful transportation information. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston is fully updated and expanded with dozens of reviews for hotels in Boston, recommended restaurants, and tips for shopping, entertainment, and where to go for a beer at the end of the day. Don't miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Travel guidebook to Boston.

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135930035

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The Edison Schools by Kenneth J. Saltman Pdf

The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time? Revealing how American McEducation went from glory to crisis, The Edison Schools tracks entrepreneur Christopher Whittle's plan to introduce a standardized nationwide curriculum and cut administrative waste. Education specialist Kenneth J. Saltman finds that the critics' predictions came true in Edison schools across the country: Experienced teachers left in droves, students were virtually given answers to standardized tests to drive up scores, and difficult students were "counselored" out.

Author : Domenic Vitiello,Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812293951

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Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States by Domenic Vitiello,Thomas J. Sugrue Pdf

In less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization. Poverty, violence, and distressed schools still make headlines, but central cities and older suburbs are attracting new residents and substantial capital investment. In most accounts, native-born empty nesters, their twentysomething children, and other educated professionals are credited as the agents of change. Yet in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States. Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States is the first book to document immigrant-led revitalization, with contributions by leading scholars across the social sciences. Offering radically new perspectives on both immigration and urban revitalization and examining how immigrants have transformed big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as well as newer destinations such as Nashville and the suburbs of Boston and New Jersey, the volume's contributors challenge traditional notions of revitalization, often looking at working-class communities. They explore the politics of immigration and neighborhood change, demolishing simplistic assumptions that dominate popular debates about immigration. They also show how immigrants have remade cities and regions in Latin America, Africa, and other places from which they come, linking urbanization in the United States and other parts of the world. Contributors: Kenneth Ginsburg, Marilynn S. Johnson, Michael B. Katz, Gary Painter, Robert J. Sampson, Gerardo Francisco Sandoval, A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, Thomas J. Sugrue, Rachel Van Tosh, Jacob L. Vigdor, Domenic Vitiello, Jamie Winders.

Author : Chester E. Finn, Jr.,Bruno V. Manno,Gregg Vanourek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400823413

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Charter Schools in Action by Chester E. Finn, Jr.,Bruno V. Manno,Gregg Vanourek Pdf

Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty of heat over charter schools and their implications, but, until now, not much light. This important new book supplies plenty of illumination. Charter schools--independently operated public schools of choice--have existed in the United States only since 1992, yet there are already over 1,500 of them. How are they doing? Here prominent education analysts Chester Finn, Bruno Manno, and Gregg Vanourek offer the richest data available on the successes and failures of this exciting but controversial approach to education reform. After studying one hundred schools, interviewing hundreds of participants, surveying thousands more, and analyzing the most current data, they have compiled today's most authoritative, comprehensive explanation and appraisal of the charter phenomenon. Fact-filled, clear-eyed, and hard-hitting, this is the book for anyone concerned about public education and interested in the role of charter schools in its renewal. Can charter schools boost student achievement, drive educational innovation, and develop a new model of accountability for public schools? Where did the idea of charter schools come from? What would the future hold if this phenomenon spreads? These are some of the questions that this book answers. It addresses pupil performance, enrollment patterns, school start-up problems, charges of inequity, and smoldering political battles. It features close-up looks at five real--and very different--charter schools and two school districts that have been deeply affected by the charter movement, including their setbacks and triumphs. After outlining a new model of education accountability and describing how charter schools often lead to community renewal, the authors take the reader on an imaginary tour of a charter-based school system. Charter schools are the most vibrant force in education today. This book suggests that their legacy will consist not only of helping millions of families obtain a better education for their children but also in renewing American public education itself.

Author : Barry Bluestone,Mary Huff Stevenson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0871541254

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The Boston Renaissance by Barry Bluestone,Mary Huff Stevenson Pdf

"Drawing on a large-scale survey of households and employers in the Atlanta region, the authors show how labor market disadvantage, residential segregation, and ingrained racial antipathies reinforce one another to hold back many minority residents. African American workers have done better in Atlanta's booming job market than elsewhere in the country, but they continue to lose ground to white Atlantans.

Author : Daniel J. Monti, Jr.
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611475920

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Engaging Strangers by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. Pdf

Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. explores how the people of Boston have learned to practice a more congenial and respectful set of civic virtues. Monti provides a model for civic conduct for the rest of America to study and follow, showing how the cultural ideals we share and the civic-minded practices we follow in and out of the business world reflect a mix of liberal and conservative values that work for all of us.

Author : Tilo Schabert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110847062

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Boston Politics by Tilo Schabert Pdf

Boston Politics: The Creativity of Power.

Author : Aviva Chomsky
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788491345015

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Unwanted People by Aviva Chomsky Pdf

This collection of essays by the historian and activist Aviva Chomsky includes work on topics ranging from immigration, to labor history, to popular culture. Chomsky’s incisive prose brings the perspective of a historian to bear on current events in a way that adds depth and nuance to topics that are of the utmost importance at this moment in world history. Unwanted People fits into Chomsky’s larger project to debunk the mythical history of the United States as a nation of immigrants or a melting pot. Her work uncovers centuries of racially motivated immigration policies that inform the current rhetoric surrounding immigration and displaced peoples. Her essays build on that foundation and expand into new territory. Exploring history as a discipline that works from the ground up rather than from the top down, Chomsky challenges the dominant narratives and gives voice to disenfranchised and unwanted people. Touching on topics from revolutionary violence and race to colonialism and its aftermath, this collection of lucid thoughts reveals the hidden histories of the people who shape our modern political and economic landscape.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : MINN:30000010451171

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Jonathan M. Beagle Ph.D.
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607346661

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Boston by Jonathan M. Beagle Ph.D. Pdf

A stunning pictorial tour of a colonial gem, led by a professor who knows every detail of its highways and byways, its landmarks and hidden treasures, its stories and lore. Through remarkably beautiful images, Jonathan Beagle ushers readers through the Back Bay, with its Public Gardens, renowned Old South Church, and John Hancock Tower, to Bunker Hill House and the USS Constitution in the North End, to the surrounding hub with its many museums, memorials, and universities. BEagle's engaging and knowledgeable commentary, along with the wealth of photographs, provide the perfect introduction to Boston for any native, visitor, or armchair traveler.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UIUC:30112059887221

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf