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| Author | : Andro Linklater |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2003-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0452284597 |
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
| Author | : Jason G. Gauthier |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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| Author | : Neil Safier |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2008-11-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226733564 |
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
| Author | : Daniel Koretz |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2009-09-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0674254988 |
How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated. Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.
| Author | : United States. Bureau of the Census |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : United States |
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| Author | : Andrew L. Yarrow |
| Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781558498358 |
Examines the rise of economic thinking in the United States after World War II
| Author | : Barbara A. Bardes |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Public opinion |
| ISBN | : 1442215011 |
The new edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to public opinion in the United States and describes how public opinion data are collected, how they are used, and the role they play in the U.S. political system. Bardes and Oldendick introduce students to the history of polling and explain the factors a good consumer of polls should know in order to evaluate public opinion data. Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind is the only text to devote significant space to the history.
| Author | : Howard Steven Friedman |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1616145692 |
Compares the United States with other affluent democracies in such areas as health, crime and violence, education, democracy, and equality, and suggests ways the country might improve its standing in these areas.
| Author | : Lily LaMotte |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2020-10-27 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062973886 |
An ALA Top 10 Graphic Novel of 2021 · A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection · Fall 2020 Kids Indie Next List · Featured in Today Show’s AAPI Heritage Month List · Amazon Best Books November Selection · Cybils Awards Finalist · An NBC AAPI Selection · Featured in Parents Magazine Book Nook October issue · A CBC Hot off the Press October Selection · WA State Book Awards Finalist · Texas Library Association Little Maverick Selection For fans of American Born Chinese and Roller Girl, Measuring Up is a don't-miss graphic novel debut from Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu! “A beautiful story about food, family, and finding your place in the world.” —Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops “A delicious and heartwarming exploration of identity by a young immigrant trying to find her place in multiple cultures.” —Remy Lai, author of Pie in the Sky and Fly on the Wall Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má’s, seventieth birthday together. Since she can’t go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids’ cooking contest to pay for A-má’s plane ticket! There’s just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, she’s determined to channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite with A-má, a way to fit in with her new friends, and somehow find herself too?
| Author | : Ricardo Paes de Barros |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2008-11-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821377469 |
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person s life chances. Success in life should depend on people s choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. An innovative Human Opportunity Index and other parametric and non-parametric techniques are presented for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge inequality of opportunities in access to basic services for children, learning achievement for youth, and income and consumption for adults.
