scholarly journals Review of Arons's

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Charles L. Glenn
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Federal Grants ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
Goals 2000 ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
Secular Left

Stephen Arons, author of Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986), is one of the most articulate and influential critics of the educational Establishment from the secular Left. In his new book, he takes on the Clinton Administration's efforts to establish national outcome standards--Goals 2000--which he describes as "comprehensive, centralizing, and insensitive to the diversity of goals that students, families, and communities bring to education. Through the use of federal grants and state regulations, it aims to bring every school in every school district in every state into conformity with politically prescribed standards of what should be learned by every child" (page 4). Arons warns that "[o]nce accepted by the public, Goals 2000 will change the balance of power in schoolhouses and courtrooms in a way unlikely ever to be undone. That change in schooling will very likely undermine the freedom of intellect and spirit that has been so essential to the American experience" (page 98).

Hamilton and the Law

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
The Law

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it best. Lawyers and legal scholars, recognizing the way the musical speaks to some of our most complicated constitutional issues, have embraced Alexander Hamilton as the trendiest historical face in American civics. This book offers a revealing look into the legal community's response to the musical, which continues to resonate in a country still deeply divided about the reach of the law. Intellectual property scholars share their thoughts on Hamilton's inventive use of other sources, while family law scholars explore domestic violence. Critical race experts consider how Hamilton furthers our understanding of law and race, while authorities on the Second Amendment discuss the language of the Constitution's most contested passage. Legal scholars moonlighting as musicians discuss how the musical lifts history and law out of dusty archives and onto the public stage. This collection of minds, inspired by the phenomenon of the musical and the Constitutional Convention of 1787, urges us to heed Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Founding Fathers and to create something new, daring, and different.

Become a Public Educator

2021 ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Dennis Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Federal Grants ◽  
Science Centers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Broader Impacts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Broader Impacts Criterion

Even though your prime duty is to your research, becoming a public educator can serve both one’s research and the information needs of the public. It also serves your field as a whole. Public education can mean teaching a science appreciation course, giving public lectures, registering with the institution’s speakers bureau, and advising the media on science and technology. Working with local schools, mentoring young people, and helping science centers create exhibits are also productive activities and bring professional benefits. These activities teach valuable communication skills, meet the Broader Impacts Criterion of federal grants, highlight one’s own department and institution, and bring you visibility.

“Americans and Their Guns”: Civilian Military Organizations and the Destabilization of American National Security

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 88-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
Heads Of Government ◽  
States History

“The Second Amendment is there as a balance of power. It is literally a loaded gun in the hands of the people held to the heads of government.” —NRA field representative Fred Romero, 1990 The right to bear arms is one of the most controversial issues in United States history; it has always been so, though not for the reasons usually cited by contemporaries. It has been customary since at least the late nineteenth century to view military organizations as an extension of the legitimate authority of the state (except in case of unsanctioned resistance). The American experience, however, gives lie to the assumption that there is a clean analytical divide between state and civil society when it comes to military matters.

“I Don’t Want to Come Off as Pushing an Agenda”: How Contexts Shaped Teachers’ Pedagogy in the Days After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Hadley Dunn ◽  
Beth Sondel ◽  
Hannah Carson Baggett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
School District ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
To Come

Guided by perspectives on the sociopolitical contexts of schooling, control of teachers’ curriculum and instruction, and teaching of elections, we use findings from a national questionnaire to explore the contexts that shaped teachers’ pedagogical decision making following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Our findings reveal that classroom, school, district, state, and national contexts often manifested in pressure from colleagues, parents, the administration, the district, and the public. This pressure is reflective of the lack of trust, autonomy, and professionalism for teachers in our current climate. The days immediately following the election revealed new understandings about teachers’ views on neutrality, opportunities for agency within control of teachers’ work, and a call for justice-oriented pedagogy. Implications for teacher education, practice, and research are discussed.

State and Media in the English-Speaking Caribbean: The Case of Antigua

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-665
Author(s):  
Leara Rhodes ◽  
Paget Henry
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Resource Model ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Political Resource ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Caribbean

These authors examine the rise of the political resource model and the fall of the commodity model of the press in the Caribbean, concluding that a more equitable balance of power is needed between the public and private sectors of some Caribbean societies.

THE PRINCELY STATE AND THE NOBLE FAMILY: CONFLICT AND CO-OPERATION IN THE MARGRAVIATES ANSBACH–KULMBACH IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
HILLAY ZMORA
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Dense Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Princely State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unstable Position

Focusing on the Franconian margraviates of Brandenburg around 1500, this study argues that the process of state formation engendered an elite of nobles who derived their power and status from the possession of high office. It shows, however, that as the state expanded, and the princely debt mounted, the relationship between ruler and noble elite was transformed: the leading nobles came to control more and more of the state in terms of offices and share of the public debt. To secure themselves in this elevated but unstable position they developed a dense network of marriage alliances among themselves. By the early sixteenth century this consortium of eminent nobles acquired a powerful hold on the princely state to the detriment of the princes and the exclusion of fellow nobles. The article suggests that it is against this background that the notorious deposition in 1515 of Margrave Friedrich by his sons should be seen: his overthrow was, among other things, an outcome of a change in the balance of power between prince and nobles that had been taking place since 1450. Finally, this change played a part in the creation of the Imperial Knighthood by which the nobles constitutionally placed themselves outside the princely states.

scholarly journals Fraud at the Public Park Community School District

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
Rania Mousa
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Internal Controls ◽  
Public School Districts ◽  
Community School ◽  
Public Park ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

ABSTRACT This case study examines potentially fraudulent activities that took place in the Public Park Community School District. Students start their investigations by reading each section and answering case questions. Students analyze potentially fraudulent incidents, identify red flags, calculate potential losses, examine deficiencies in internal controls and suggest effective internal controls. Student feedback indicates the case increased their understanding of fraudulent activities, internal control weaknesses, and effective internal controls in the specific context of public school districts. The findings also highlight the importance of cultivating a strong internal control environment in not-for-profit organizations engaging in fundraising activities.

scholarly journals NATIONALIZATION OF BANKS AND INDUSTRY IN AUSTRIA IN 1945–1946

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Nataliya S. Kozyakova
Keyword(s):  
National Income ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Eastern Austria ◽  
Full Power ◽  
Post War

The article gives the analysis of post-war nationalization in Austria. Nationalization was carried out in the interests of the big capital. This was applied both to the methods and forms of economic management in the nationalized sector, and to the methods and forms of management that were directly carried out by large monopolists and their protégés. Austria’s monopolies exercised full power in the country and used the public sector to the maximum extent possible to strengthen their financial, political and economic dominance, to increase their own profits by redistributing the national income and violating the labor legislation. The experience of the nationalization in Austria, although it is a small country, has made it possible to draw some conclusions about the significance and the role of nationalization in the workers’ struggle to build a socially just state. In Austria, nationalization was caused by the special historical conditions that developed in the country after the defeat of the fascist Germany. The Austrian oligarchy, which was a Germany’s ally, had no direct way to get the industry located in Austria, which belonged to German monopolies. In this period Austrian financial experts considered nationalization as a lesser evil. It was advantageous for the Austrian oligarchy to shuffle off the burden of the entire financial and economic burden on to the state, i.e., ultimately, to the taxpayers. With the help of nationalization, it hoped to prevent the transfer of enterprises located in Eastern Austria and owned by Germany, as reparations, under the ownership of the USSR. The author comes to the conclusion that the economic basis of Austrian neutrality was nationalization, which was also a powerful weapon of the workers in the conditions of a radical change in the balance of power in the country.

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