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School Reform, Corporate Style: Chicago, 1880-2000

School Reform, Corporate Style: Chicago, 1880-2000

Dorothy Shipps

Dorothy Shipps reappraises the tumultuous history of educational progress in Chicago, revealing that the persistent lack of improvement is due not to the extent but rather the type of reform.
A New Agenda for Research in Educational Leadership

A New Agenda for Research in Educational Leadership

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Contributors: Albert Bennett • Mary Erina Driscoll • Carol R. Fendt • Gail C. Furman • Ellen B. Goldring • Pamela Konkol • Kenneth A. Leithwood • Barbara Scott Nelson • Nona A. Prestine • Pedro Reyes • Carolyn M. Shields • Dorothy Shipps ...
Dorothy: Return to Oz

Dorothy: Return to Oz

Thomas L. Tedrow

Sixty years after her visit to Oz, Dorothy is still wishing to return and gets the chance when her granddaughter, Dorothy, spends the summer with her in Kansas
Angel Dorothy: How an American Progressive Came to Devon

Angel Dorothy: How an American Progressive Came to Devon

Jane Brown

Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925.
Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case

Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case

Dorothy Wayne

Dorothy Wayne was a pseudonym used by Noel Sainsbury who wrote a series of books featuring Bill Bolton, the idea being that a female author would appeal more to a young female audience.
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society ...

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society ...

Dorothy Wickenden

Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got ...
A Handbook for Minister's Wives: Sharing the Blessing of ...

A Handbook for Minister's Wives: Sharing the Blessing of ...

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Sharing the Blessing of Your Marriage, Family, and Home Dorothy Kelley Patterson. A HANDBOOIQfoE^ MINISTEI^WIVES DOROTHY KELLEY PATTERSON m PUBLISHING CROUP NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE © 2002 by Dorothy Kelley ...
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54

Dorothy Osborne

Other friends we have, then living, but none so intimate or well beloved. Mr. Waller, whom Dorothy may have known, Mr. Cowley, Sir Peter Lely, ——who painted our heroine's portrait,—-and Dr. Jeremy Taylor; very courtly and superior persons ...
Beyond the Hills That Beckon

Beyond the Hills That Beckon

Ray Long

One of Henly's four surviving daughters was Dorothy Faye Whitaker Howard. Dorothy's husband, Garnett Howard, was the son of Fred Napoleon Howard and Jessie Moberly. Garnett and Dorothy were the parents of two sons, Gene Bernard , ...
Annual Editions: American History

Annual Editions: American History

Robert Maddox

Dorothy Wickenden describes the relationship between the two men — a relationship that would alter the history of race in America. Dorothy Wickenden Dorothy Wickenden is the managing editor of The New Republic. Born in Nor- walk, ...
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; ...

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; ...

Dorothy Wordsworth

Two of Dorothy's poems are included in the appendix, along with thirty-three poems by Wordsworth, which are referred to in the journals.
Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and ...

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and ...

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By Dorothy Sterling. Doubleday, 1954. Corrie andthe Yankee. By Mimi Cooper Levi. Viking, 1959. Mary Jane. By Dorothy Sterling. Doubleday, 1959. William. By Anne Welsh Guy. Dial, '95'. Forever Free. By Dorothy Sterling. Doubleday, 1961.
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Stay a Little Longer

Stay a Little Longer

Dorothy Garlock

Dorothy Garlock. “That, my friend,” Zachary said, smiling, “is where you come in.” Chapter Six R ACHEL TOSSED a freshly laundered sheet over.
The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of ...

The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of ...

Dorothy E. Smith

So argues Dorothy E. Smith in this provocative study of her own discipline and its relationship to women's lives.
Homeplace

Homeplace

Dorothy Garlock

Dorothy Garlock. “How come you picked this big, old ugly cousin of mine over me ? I'm much better looking than he is.” “Because I didn't want to be responsible for all the desperate women who would have thrown themselves in the river when ...
America, History and Life

America, History and Life

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Samuel Nyal Henrie, ed. Tucson, Ariz.: Hats Off, 2001. 427 pp. Utah Historical Quarterly 2002 70(1): 94-95. Coates. Lawrence G. 39:14908 1960's-90's Shipps, Jan. Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons. Urbana: U.
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(Skid more, ASCAP) DOROTHY COLLINS That's All I Need 78 GOTHAM 117— The canary has a way with r.&b. material and she wraps up this LaVerne/ Baker ditty with showmanship and a great beat. One of Dorothy Collins' best sides.
St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas

Mary Mapes Dodge

... .iirrett Juanita Gray Anna Christine Richards Dorothy Starr Muriel E. Halstead Shirley Clement Arthur Munro Charles Ray McCallum Rudolph ... Blanche Leeming Dorothy Barclay Emmehne Bradshaw Maude W. Fowler Jean Russell Doris F. Halman Charlotte P. Smith ... Brady Dorothy Seligman Marjorie Cluett Helen Baker Isabella B. Howland Robert Wilson Frances Isabell Powell Julia La Bau Carey ...
Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir

Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality.
The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and ...

The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and ...

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Jan Shipps, Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 131–51; Katie Clark Blakesley, “A Style of Our Own: Modesty and Mormon Women, 1951–2008,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon ...
Archie and Arthur: A Mouse's Tale

Archie and Arthur: A Mouse's Tale

Dorothy Anne Austin

Dorothy Anne Austin is a Scot who now lives in Cyprus. She is an animal lover and is happy to think of these stories being read by children.
Poetry

Poetry

Harriet Monroe

... her among so many dead. And then, please God, I shall have perished too Nor envy for her sake what Time may do. Dorothy Collins Alyea COMMENT A CENSORSHIP FOR CRITICS SOMEONE ought to introduce a [31] Dorothy Collins Alyea.
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding

Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding

Dorothy Ko

Neither condemning nor defending footbinding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglement of male power and female desire during the practice's ...
Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, ...

Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, ...

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Immersion versus the 'perfect imbecility' of the Stream in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage1 Rebecca Bowler and Scott McCracken In 1945, when she was seventytwo, Dorothy Richardson wrote to her friend and patron, Bryher, that she had ...
Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hall

Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hall

Charles Major

I thought, “He will surely answer this just man's prayer,” and almost before the thought was completed the dungeon door turned upon its hinges and a great light came with glorious refulgence through the open portal— Dorothy. “John!” Never ...
Where Are the Great Pyramids?

Where Are the Great Pyramids?

Dorothy Hoobler

In this informative account, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the story of the powerful pharaohs who commissioned the pyramids at Giza and offer a fascinating look at the culture of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, explaining exactly how ...
Saothar

Saothar

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Anne Dolan Nadia Clare Smith, Dorothy Macardlc: A Life (Woodfield Press, Dublin, 2007), 159pp, €19.95pb Dorothy Macardlc began her statement to the Bureau of Military History with this sentence: 'I was brought up under the influence of an ...
The Triple Package: What Really Determines Success

The Triple Package: What Really Determines Success

Jed Rubenfeld

3; TerrylL.Givens, People of Paradox:AHistoryof Mormon Culture (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. xiii, xvi; Jan Shipps, Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois ...

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