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School Reform: The Critical Issues

School Reform: The Critical Issues

Williamson M. Evers

About the Editors WILLIAMSON M. EVERS is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Koret Task Force on K—12 Education. He is a specialist on curriculum, instruction, standards, testing, and accountability. Evers was ...
Deutsche Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts:

Deutsche Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts:

Ulrika Evers

Wuppertal; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA; Columbus Mus. of Art, Columbus, Ga.; Busch-Reisinger ... National Collection ofF ine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. ; New York Public Library, N. Y.; ...
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900

The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900

Julie M. Johnson

Ulrika Evers, Deutsche Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Malerei— Bildhauerei— Tapisserie (Hamburg 1983), 214, quoted in Chadzis, “Die Malerin und Bildhauerin Elena Luksch-Makowsky,” 163. 73. Melpomene's layered Baroque dress, ...
Medgar Evers and the NAACP

Medgar Evers and the NAACP

Gary Jeffrey

Discusses the life of civil rights leader Medgar Evers who was assassinated in June 1963 at the age of thirty-seven.
Bleeding Dodger Blue

Bleeding Dodger Blue

Crabbe Evers

About the Authors CRABBE EVERS is the pseudonym for the partnership of William Br ashler and Reinder Van Til, a pair of boxscore devotees who admire the poetry of Franklin P. Adams and have spent long hours at the feet of Duffy House.
Murder in Wrigley Field

Murder in Wrigley Field

Crabbe Evers

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Crabbe Evers is the pseudonym for the partnership of William Brashler and Reinder Van Til, a pair of boxscore devotees who admire the poetry of Franklin P. Adams and have spent long hours at the feet of Duffy House ...
Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit ...

Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit ...

Eric A. Hanushek

Interview with Williamson M. Evers. Marin County, CA, September 2. . 2005c. Communication with Williamson M. Evers. California. September 4. Aranson, Peter H. 1981. American Government: Strategy and Choice. Cambridge, MA: Winthrop ...
The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums

The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums

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1157 (December 27, 1962, January 3, 1963), p. 469. 34. Williamson Evers, “From Goldwater to the Filthy Speech Movement: A Neglected Chapter in Libertarian History,” in Williamson Evers Papers, Box 36, folder, “Alliance of Libertarian ...
Never Evers

Never Evers

Lucy Ivison

Kicked out of ballet academy and straight into a school ski trip, Mouse knows certain classmates can't wait to see her fall flat on her face.
Beckett and Phenomenology

Beckett and Phenomenology

Ulrika Maude

A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's ...
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

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Œuvres complètes, vol. II, edited by Bertrand Marchal. Paris: Gallimard. Maude, Ulrika. 2008. '“A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going”: Beckett and Tourette's'. Journal of Beckett Studies 17.1–2: 153–68. 2011. Beckett, Technology and the Body.
School accountability

School accountability

Williamson M. Evers

A group of expert authors from a wide range of perspectives reveals what is known about accountability, what still needs to be learned, what should be done right now, and what should be avoided in devising accountability systems.
The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

P. McTighe

Marks, Laura.The Skin oftheFilm. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Maude, Ulrika.Beckett, Technology andthe Body. Cambridge: Cambridge ———. “' AStirring Beyond Coming and Going': Beckett and Tourette's.” Journal.
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

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51 In fact before 1885, sufferers of Tourette's symptom were classified as hysterics: for an analysis of Beckett's writing and Tourette's syndrome, see Ulrika Maude, '“A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going”: Beckett and Tourette's', Journal ...
Miss Julie

Miss Julie

August Strindberg

1849 Johan August Strindberg born in Stockholm on 22 January, fourth son of Carl Oscar Strindberg (a shipping agent) and his wife Ulrika Eleonora (née Norling) who was previously his serving woman. 1853 August's father goes bankrupt, ...
Headaches Among the Overtones: Music in Beckett / Beckett in ...

Headaches Among the Overtones: Music in Beckett / Beckett in ...

Catherine Laws

As Ulrika Maude (2009, 128– 29) points out, the self-consciously virtual quality of the scene, with its apparently free-floating images, softly lit and carefully framed and reframed, has a similar effect. David Pattie (2009, 133) makes the same ...
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

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Ulrika Maude, “'A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going': Beckett and Tourette's,” Journal ofBeckett Studies 17,nos.1–2 (2008),158, 160. 23. August 1931. Quoted by Pilling in Beckett's Dream Notebook, xiii. Beckett's Dream Notebook, ed.
The Dangers of Socialized Medicine:

The Dangers of Socialized Medicine:

Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger

Williamson M. Evers is a political scientist and visiting scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. One of his research fields is public policyandbiomedicalethics. He has had articles published in The New York Times, The Wall Street ...
Woodstock: History of an American Town

Woodstock: History of an American Town

Alf Evers

Traces Woodstock's development, looks at the town, agricultural, and arts and crafts segments of its population, and describes life in the town from colonial times to the present
International Journal of Oral History

International Journal of Oral History

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From Ron Grele to Charles Morrissey, and now to David Stricklin. While not ( presently) as famous as Tinker to Evers to Chance, our combination, I believe, is headed in that direction! Change often breeds more change. This journal, therefore ...
Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization

Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization

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Mediators of Globalization Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick, Ulrika Mårtensson . First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, ...
Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

Williamson F. Evers

Daniel M. Koretz, Robert L. Linn, Stephen B. Dunbar, and Lorrie S. Shepard, “The Effects of High-Stakes Testing on Achievement: Preliminary Findings About Generalization Across Tests” (paper presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the  ...
Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?

Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?

Paul E. Peterson

The brief account in this section draws on Eric A. I Ianushek and Margaret E. Raymond, "Sorting Out Accountability Systems" in Williamson M. Evers and Herbert J. Walberg, editors, School Accountability (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution ...
Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and ...

Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and ...

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THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODELANDSTAGES OF CHANGE JamesO. Prochaska Colleen A. Redding Kerry E. Evers KEY POINTS This chapter will • Explain the stages of change and the other core Transtheoretical Model (TTM) constructs.
Teacher Quality

Teacher Quality

Williamson F. Evers

In this book some of the brightest minds in education research have studied pressing questions about teacher quality and practices, reviewed thousands of education studies, examined state test scores, explored education theories, and then ...
Lübeckischer Staats-Kalender: auf d. Jahr .... 1847

Lübeckischer Staats-Kalender: auf d. Jahr .... 1847

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Johannes Christoph Fehling. Wilhelm Jacob Minlos. Detlef Hinrich Wiens. Johann Heinrich Evers. Carl Friedrich Puttferken. Jochim Christoph Grabener. bis Petri. 9. Bruskowen Armengang. Vorsteher. Bürgermeister Bernhard Heinrich Frister, ...
Baby Doe Tabor

Baby Doe Tabor

Judy Nolte Temple

... Donald DeBats, Sally Deutsch, Barbara Dey, Ruth Dickstein, Myra Dinnerstein, Larry Evers, joanna Bowen Gillespie, Erica Golo, Steve Grinstead, David Halaas, Kristen Iversen, Robyn jacobs, Liz Kennedy, Linda Kerber, Barbara Kingsolver, ...
History, Directory & Gazeteer, of the County of York: With ...

History, Directory & Gazeteer, of the County of York: With ...

Edward Baines

Binney Richard, Kirkgate # of inac, Brig. end Burton Thomas, Westgate Dobson Thomas, Westgate Elliott William, Southgate Evers Richard, Westgate moor Fernandes J. L. Kirkgate Gosney Joseph, Garden street Gregory John, Thornes lane ...

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