The Election of the Century and what it Tells Us about the Future of American Politics

The Election of the Century and what it Tells Us about the Future of American Politics
Author: Stephen J. Wayne
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780765607430

This work places the 2000 presidential and congressional elections into the larger and future context of American politics. It examines a range of topics including "wedge" issues in 2000 - the economy, foreign policy and race, the dimensions of gender, age, and religion, for example.

The Election of the Century: The 2000 Election and What it Tells Us About American Politics in the New Millennium

The Election of the Century: The 2000 Election and What it Tells Us About American Politics in the New Millennium
Author: Stephen J. Wayne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315499444

This book places the 2000 presidential and congressional elections into the larger and future context of American politics. The essays in Part I focus on the role of "wedge" issues in 2000, including the economy, foreign policy, and race. Part II examines the electorate in terms of gender, religion, and age. Part III analyzes Republican and Democratic strategies in 2000. Part IV focuses in on specific factors affecting the 2000 races including the Clinton factor.

What Mathematics Do Students Know and How is that Knowledge Changing?

What Mathematics Do Students Know and How is that Knowledge Changing?
Author: Peter Kloosterman
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1681232022

This volume is intended for researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and classroom teachers who want comprehensive information on what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 (the grades assessed by NAEP) can and cannot do in mathematics. After two introductory chapters on the design of NAEP, the volume contains a chapter on the challenges in analyzing NAEP data at the item level followed by five chapters that report 2005 through 2013 student performance on specific assessment items. These chapters are organized by content area and then by topic (e.g., understanding of place value, knowledge of transformations, ability to use metric and U.S. systems of measurement) and thus provide baseline data on the proportion of students who are able to complete the mathematics tasks currently used in the upper elementary, middle, and high?school mathematics curriculum. Additional chapters focus on student reasoning, U.S. performance on international assessments, and using construct analysis rather than percent correct on clusters of items to understand student knowledge on specific mathematics topics. Several themes emerge from the volume. One is that while the rate of improvement in mathematics learning in grades 4 and 8 has slowed in recent years, it has slowed more on some topics than others. Another is that relatively minor changes in wording can have significant effects on student performance and thus it is difficult to be specific about what students can do without knowing exactly what questions they were asked. A third theme is that changes in performance over time can sometimes but not always be understood in terms of what students are taught. For example, there were substantial gains on several grade 4 items requiring understanding of fractions and that is probably because the amount of instruction on fractions in grades 3 and 4 has been increasing. In contrast, while relatively few twelfth?grade students have ever been good at factoring trinomials, performance on this skill seems to be decreasing. This suggests that while more students are completing advanced mathematics courses in high school, these courses are not helping in the area of factoring trinomials. Finally, there are limitations to using NAEP as a measure of student performance on the Common Core State Standards. To the extent that NAEP can be used, however, the NAEP data show a substantial gap between expectations and performance.

The School Uniform Movement and what it Tells Us about American Education

The School Uniform Movement and what it Tells Us about American Education
Author: David L. Brunsma
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781578861255

This book represents the most thorough exposition on our present understanding of the impetuses, debates, legalities, and effectiveness of school uniform policies that have rapidly entered the discourse of school reform in the United States. In it, David Brunsma provides an antidote to the ungrounded, anecdotal components that define the contemporary conversation regarding policies of standardized dress in American K-12 districts and schools.

One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research and What Remains to be Learned

One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research and What Remains to be Learned
Author: A. Lima-de-Faria
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401701679

One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research: What Remains to be Learned, offers the reader a critical analysis of the observations and experiments that shaped the last 100 years of chromosome research, as well as the ideas which prevailed during this period. Emphasis is placed on what remains to be learned, particularly in light of reality of the sequencing of DNA which leaves the previous era of chromosome research as a prehistoric event. It is at this turning point, that well formulated questions can be asked about many of the chromosome's properties, which remain to be unveiled. The author, Lima-de-Faria is Professor Emeritus of Molecular Cytogenetics at Lund Unviersity, Sweden, previously Head of the Institute of Molecular Cytogenetics, Lund University.

Kansas Reports

Kansas Reports
Author: Kansas. Supreme Court
Publisher:
Total Pages: 894
Release: 1885
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN: