"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way, " the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is ...he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.In this straight-talking book, one of the most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded Age beginnings of the influential view that American schools should be organized to meet the needs of American businesses, and run according to principles of cost-efficiency, bottom-line thinking, and customer satisfaction.Not only are schools by their nature not businesslike, Cuban argues, but the attempt to run them along business lines leads to dangerous over-standardization--of tests, and of goals for our children. Why should we think that there is such a thing as one best school? Is "college for all" achievable--or even desirable? Even if it were possible, do we really want schools to operate as bootcamps for a workforce? Cuban suggests that the best business-inspired improvement for American education would be more consistent and sustained on-the-job worker training, tailored for the job to be done, and business leaders' encouragement--and adoption--of an ethic of civic engagement and public service.
Marijaterezijanska politika zdravstvenih reformi i pozitivne demografije diljem dunavske monarhije, pa tako i u Bjelovaru, koji je carica Maria Theresia dala izgraditi u središtu Varaždinskoga ...generalata 1756. godine, sačinjavala je ozakonjenje školovanja zdravstvenih profesija, osnivanje bolnica i ksenodohija putem javnozdravstvenih i brojnih komunitetskih propisa, koji su bili ključni temelj kasnijih zdravstvenih zakona i propisa. U Bjelovaru do osnivanja grada nije postojala organizirana i profesionalna zdravstvena skrb, no od početka osnivanja grada provodila se zakonska zdravstvena regulativa u svim sastavnicama: osnovana je prva bolnica u gradu koja u kontinuitetu djeluje do danas; osnovane su satnijske sanitetske stanice s kirurzima i satnijskm primaljama diljem Generalata; osnovane su prve ljekarne; osnovani su ksenodohiji (lazareti) izvan grada kao svojevrsne karantene; u gradu i okolici službovali su brojni školovani zdravstveni djelatnici reguliranih profesija: liječnici (doktori medicine), viši i niži kirurzi, ljekarnici, primalje, liječnički pomoćnici i bolničari. Geografski položaj Varaždinskoga generalata i Bjelovara, daleko od aktivnih ratišta i habsburško-osmanske granice, osiguravao je uz implementaciju javnozdravstvenih uredbi ipak mirnije javno zdravlje i razvoj zdravstvene skrbi i medicine na koje se moglo utjecati centraliziranim pristupom s bečkoga dvora druge polovice 18. stoljeća.
On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the castle church door in Wittenberg. More than any other event, this has the best claim to be the starting gun that set the ...Reformation in motion. Five hundred years later, the Reformation still has important things to say. In this clear, incisive and accessible survey, Michael Reeves and Tim Chester show how the Reformation helps us answer questions like: How do we know what's true? Can we truly know God? How does God speak? What's wrong with us? How can we be saved? Who am I? That many people today find the Reformation strange and remote exposes our preoccupation with this material world and this momentary life. If there is a world beyond this world, and a life beyond this life, then it doesn't seem to matter very much to us. At its heart, the Reformation was a dispute about how we know God and how we can be right with him. At stake was our eternal future - and it still is.
InThe Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational ...experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the quintessential free state, not only because it was home to sizable populations of Indian groups and former slaves, but also because of its unique history of conflict over freedom during the antebellum period.After the Civil War, white reformers opened segregated schools, ultimately reinforcing the very racial hierarchies that they claimed to challenge. To resist the effects of these reformers' actions, African Americans developed strategies that emphasized inclusion and integration, while autonomy and bicultural identities provided the focal point for Native Americans' understanding of what it meant to be an American. Warren argues that these approaches to defining American citizenship served as ideological precursors to the Indian rights and civil rights movements.This comparative history of two nonwhite races provides a revealing analysis of the intersection of education, social control, and resistance, and the formation and meaning of identity for minority groups in America.
Half of Indonesia's massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, ...enacted in the wake of the Indonesian Revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable returns for peasant farmers. But fifty years later, the law's objectives of social justice have not been achieved. Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia's recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the prerevolutionary period, and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for peoples' claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia's diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant issues and events affecting land rights, including shifts in policy from the early postrevolutionary period to the New Order; the Land Administration Project that formed the core of land policy during the late New Order period; a long-running and representative dispute over a golf course in West Java that pitted numerous indigenous farmers in Kalimantan against the urban elite; Suharto's notorious "million hectare" project that resulted in loss of access to land and resources for numerous farmers; and the struggle by Bandung's urban poor to be treated equitably in the context of commercial land development. Together, these essays provide a critical resource for understanding one of Indonesia's most pressing and most influential issues. Contributors: Afrizal, Dianto Bachriadi, Anton Lucas, John McCarthy, John Mansford Prior, Gustaaf Reerink, Carol Warren, and Gunawan Wiradi.
