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Man nehme Gedanken, Situationen, Emotionen, Gegenstände aus dem Alltag, gibt wahlweise etwas Sarkasmus, Ironie und/oder Weirdness hinzu und schüttelt alles einmal kräftig durch. Fertig ist der Alltagscocktail. Und wie bei einem richtigen Cocktail, wo man einfach alles zusammen mischt, was einem in die Finger kommt, kann auch dieses Buch zu einem super Abend führen oder zum schlimmsten Hangover. Was es wird muss jeder selber entscheiden. Viel S...

Capitalism is the greatest economic system the world has ever known - but capitalism is broken.The Mission Corporation promotes a more enlightened form of 'contemporary capitalism': its Seven Declarations connect profit with purpose, align stakeholders' values with their actions and provide a roadmap for entrepreneurs and governments. Learn how to:. Connect the heart of a non-profit to the brains of a for-profit. Create a market-leading compan...

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Treating Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment, Moe explores education reform to reveal how political power shapes and stifles efforts to fix failing institutions. Because the post-Katrina reforms proved revolutionary, this book will interest researchers and students in American politics, education, public policy, and theory of political institutions.

Moe's new book is not an argument for or against vouchers, it is an analysis of public opinion on vouchers that is likely to be very influential in shaping the movement's future. Moe has written a nuanced and thoughtful treatise that goes beneath the notoriously unreliable single-shot question favored by the media: Do you favor or oppose school vouchers?" Richard D. Kahlenberg in The Nation "In a brilliant, definitive analysis of the subject, ...

Zoopoetics exposes the continuity of poiesis across human/animal spheres. It contributes new ways of seeing animals within the poetic tradition and beyond.

This book speaks to political scientists, economists, sociologists and education researchers about the politics of education across nations, focusing on the power of teachers unions and their consequences for education reform. Policymakers will find it valuable for the enlightening new evidence it reveals about education and its politics worldwide.

Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, to the point that it is virtually impossible to get even the worst teachers out of the classroom? And why, after more than a quarter century of costly education reform, have the schools proven so resistant to change and so difficult to improve?

Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, to the point that it is virtually impossible to get even the worst teachers out of the classroom? This title answers such questions.

In this volume the eleven members of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education provide a broad overview of the American education system--pulling together basic facts about its structure and operation, identifying key problems that hinder its performance, and offering perspectives on the requirements of genuine reform.

Based on an extensive, nationally representative survey, this book is an effort to not only comprehend where the American people stand on the voucher issue, but to get beneath the surface to find out why people think what they do, and how their underlying values, beliefs, and interests can affect the course of political events.

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Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right. The general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitation. An exploration of the oeuvres of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, and Brenda Hillman reveals the many places where an imitation of another species' poiesis (Greek, makings) contributes to breakthroughs in poetic form. However, humans are not the only imitators in the animal kingdom. Ot...

Provides a broad overview of the American education system - pulling together basic facts about its structure and operation, identifying key problems that hinder its performance, and offering perspectives on the requirements of genuine reform.

These essays by members of Hoover's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education carefully describe and assess the current state of American education.