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The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. Offering displaced and unemployed coal miners and their families new opportunities, the school also helped those in need to develop a sense of dignity during the Great Depression. The first book-length study of the well-known educational experiment, The Arthurdale Community School illuminates the institution''s history, influence, and impact. Founded on American philosopher and reformer John Dewey''s idea that learning should be based not on competition but on community, and informed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt''s guidance, the Arthurdale project sought to enable both children and adults to regain a sense of identity and place by studying the history and culture of Appalachia. Its goal was not to produce workers for global capitalism but to provide citizens with the tools to participate in a democracy. Author Sam F. Stack Jr. examines both the successes and failures of this famous progressive experiment, providing an in-depth analysis of the Arthurdale School''s legacy. A fascinating study of innovation and reform in Appalachia, Stack''s book also investigates how this project''s community model may offer insights into the challenges facing schools today.

This biography chronicles the life and teaching practices of Elsie Ripley Clapp, one of the most significant female leaders in progressive education. Clapp''s greatest contribution to American education is the community school, a place for self-realization, caring, cooperation, and cultural enrichment as well as the cornerstone of democratic society. Challenging the practices of contemporary education in her era, she envisioned pedagogy as the integration of living and learning, building upon local resources and the experiences of students and their community. Learning was more than training or the acquisition of knowledge, it was a form of communal sharing. Agreeing with her mentor John Dewey, a true education was more of a journey than arrival at a specific destination. This book explores Clapp''s personal journey, her triumphs and her failures.

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In economic sectors crucial to human welfare – agriculture, education, and medicine – a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward. Such rights include patents on seeds and medicines, copyrights for educational texts, and trademarks in consumer products. According to conventional wisdom, these agreements likewise ended hopes for a ''New International Economic Order,'' under which wealth would be redistributed from rich countries to poor. Sam F. Halabi turns this conventional wisdom on its head by demonstrating that the New International Economic Order never faded, but rather was redirected by other treaties, formed outside the nominally economic sphere, that protected poor countries'' interests in education, health, and nutrition and resulted in redistribution and regulation. This illuminating work should be read by anyone seeking a nuanced view of how IP is shaping the global knowledge economy.

Over the past twenty years our understanding of polymer solutions has undergone a dramatic evolution. New methods and concepts have extended the frontier of the theory from dilute solutions in which polymers move independently of each other, to concentrated solutions where many polymers entangle with each other. This book provides a comprehensive account of the modern theory for the dynamical properties of polymer solutions. This includes viscoelasticity, diffusion, dynamic light scattering and flow and electric birefringence. Nonlinear viscoelasticity is discussed in detail on the basis of molecular dynamical models. The book fills a gap between classical theory and modern developments and constructs a consistent picture for the dynamics of polymer solutions over the entire concentration range.

For students and practicing professionals preparing to take licensing exams, there is perhaps no more reliable, self-help tutor than Design Process. This thorough text covers all major and many minor real-world issues of architecture and interior design. Topics include: creative design process, building components and materials, environmental issues, research, and the stages of concept development.

Sam F O''Doherty (author of 2005''s "Life Matters" anthology) once again crafts a weave of intrigue surrounding a solid moral question, objectively focussing on the society of today, with the theme of "What causes human failure?".Through a gripping and often emotive fiction, O''Doherty gives suggestions as to what the main factors are that contribute to human failure, and focusses on the importance of acting on conviction and belief.

I often babysat my granddaughters when they were preschoolers. They would often ask me to tell them stories, so I created the main characters of Paco and Angelina, two young children who lived with their extended family on their small farm in Mexico. Thus began the Paco and Angelina Stories. Life on a small, rural farm can sometimes be harsh, but Paco and Angelina are rays of sunshine. Through their daily adventures, we can laugh, smile, cry and be amused as we share in the simple joys of childhood.

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This is the final technical report from the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education''s (NRCCTE''s) five-year longitudinal study of South Carolina''s Personal Pathway to Success initiative, which was authorized by the state''s Education and Economic Development Act (EEDA) in 2005. NRCCTE-affiliated researchers at the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University investigated the extent to which EEDA facilitated the creation of programs of study/career pathways and whether these programs led to improved student high school and postgraduation preparation and planning. The study followed two student cohorts from a sample of eight high schools from economically and culturally diverse regions of the state. To create a broader understanding of EEDA''s influence on schools, teachers, students, and the creation of programs of study (POS), various quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed. Quantitative data included student outcome and survey data from the Classes of 2009 and 2011 and survey data from guidance personnel. Overall, researchers found that EEDA was having some positive impacts, including increasing career-focused activities at all schools and enhancing roles for guidance personnel. Surprisingly, schools with more challenging economic situations were more likely to embrace and fully implement programs of study/career pathways than schools with more resources. Researchers found mixed or contradictory results on associations between the development of programs of study/career pathways and student outcomes. The full technical report includes two technical appendices and recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in transforming CTE--and future iterations of Perkins--through sector strategy-responsive collaborations between secondary, postsecondary, and business and systemic reforms of state policies and practices. [For the executive summary, see ED574465. For Technical Appendix A: Implementation of the Education and Economic Development Act, see ED574467. For Technical Appendix B, see ED574466.].

The author of this work, Sam F. Hudson, was born 1 February 1893 in Sampson County, North Carolina. He married Mary Sue Woody of Person County, North Carolina in 1921. Reverend Hudson graduated from the Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky in 1922 and served " ... in the ministry for more than fifty years ... in five states."--P. 82-83. In the forward the author states "I endeavor to give special attention to the Hudsons that came to Sampson County, North Carolina. But I shall attempt no family tree. The Hudson trees are so numerous as to become a forest. My effort is to find the root of the tree of which I am a branch. Because I am trying to trace the comings of the Hudsons to Sampson County, attention will be given mainly to the records of those in the eastern counties of the state, and I shall come no further than 1900."--Foreword. In the conclusion he states "The purpose of this work was to trace my family line back as far as I could. I have not tried to bring the record up later than 1900 ... "--P. 82. Includes references to many Hudsons, related and unrelated, found in census, court, land and other records.