American Educational History

American Educational History
Author: William Jeynes
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412914205

Examines historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. This book places an emphasis on history, most notably post-WWII issues such as the role of technology, the standards movement, affirmative action, bilingual education, undocumented immigrants, school choice, and more.

Contented Among Strangers

Contented Among Strangers
Author: Linda Schelbitzki Pickle
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1996-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252064722

German-Americans make up one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, yet their very success at assimilating has also made them one of the least visible. What were their experiences? What cultural baggage did they bring with them, and how did it affect their lives in America? How did the German-speaking immigrants differ among themselves, and how did these differences influence their behavior and reactions?

Cognitive Carpentry

Cognitive Carpentry
Author: John L. Pollock
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262161527

A sequel to the author's How to Build a Person, this work builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial intelligence. It argues that progress in AI has stalled because of its creators' reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Instead, the author bases the OSCAR architecture upon an explicit philosophical theory of rationality, encompassing principles of practical cognition, epistemic cognition and defeasible reasoning. One of the results is the first automated defeasible reasoner capable of reasoning in a rich, logical environment.

Pick & Shovel Poet

Pick & Shovel Poet
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395776100

A biography of an Italian peasant who immigrated to America in the early twentieth century and endured poverty and the difficult life of an unskilled laborer, determined to become a published poet.