scholarly journals The Content and Enlightenment of the National Core Arts Standards of the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengjia Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
National Coalition

In 2014, the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards published the revised National Core Arts Standards. It was jointly drawn up by five writing teams of music, media arts, dance, theatre and visual arts. This paper will focus on the content and the structure of the Standards in order to provide a broad international perspective and inspire front-line teachers.

Failure to Accelerate

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Scott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Car Ownership ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Car Industry ◽  
Fundamental Reason ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Market Diffusion

From an international perspective, the inter-war car industry was a British success story. Britain ranked only second to the United States as the world’s leading producer of, and market for, automobiles, owing to a relatively strong domestic market by European standards. However, while consumers’ expenditure was high, it was not deep—car ownership per capita in 1938 being around a third of US levels. This chapter examines why the British automobile sector failed to take off into mass market diffusion. A number of important factors are highlighted, including lower British wages relative to the United States; punitive vehicle and petrol taxation; and the high unit production costs incurred in serving a market too small to justify Fordist mass production. However, a more fundamental reason was the low priority given to car ownership in a relatively small, densely populated, and highly urbanized island nation with well-developed public transport networks.

Anglo-Saxon Occupational Pensions in International Perspective

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Sass
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Occupational Pensions ◽  
Second Tier

Occupational pensions are today a major ‘second tier’ in Anglo-Saxon retirement income systems, providing benefits to a significant portion of the elderly population atop the basic ‘first tier’ benefits provided by the state. In the United States, for example, employer plans provide one-fifth of the income of the elderly — one-quarter if earnings from work are excluded — half the amount provided by public plans. By the end of the 1930s, employer pension plans had become standard in governments and mature big businesses throughout the industrial world. They had become critical tools for strengthening, then severing, relationships with workers. Britain took a different tack to strengthening employer plans. It primarily leveraged the contracting-out provisions in the State Earnings-related Pension Scheme (SERPS), introduced in 1978.

Comparative Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ballard Campbell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
American History ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Business Politics

Thanks to Richard Jensen, Kriste Lindenmeyer, Alan Lessoff and William G. Shade for helpful comments on this essay.Comparative perspectives on the United States have received increased attention in recent years, stimulated apparently by the rise in world history's popularity. David Thelen's sponsorship of transnational history as a subject of three special issues of the Journal of American History no doubt has contributed to the trend. The reprinting of C. Vann Woodward's The Comparative Approach to American History in 1997, the publication of George Fredrickson's essays on comparative history, and the report of the La Pietra Project reflect recent efforts to put United States history in an international perspective. While comparative history hardly has gained equal footing with nationally-centered studies, enough work on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era has appeared over the last decade and a half to warrant an assessment. This essay takes note of scholarship on economics, business, politics and governance that has examined the United States within an international context during the 1870s–1914 era. My objective is to discern trends in the literature and suggest opportunities for future research rather than to provide a comprehensive bibliographical survey.

Extent and Implications of the Presentation of False Facts by Domestic Violence Agencies in the United States

Partner Abuse ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise A. Hines
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Coalition

The problem of domestic violence (DV) agencies presenting statistics that are distortions or have no basis in research has been pointed out by several DV researchers in the past several years. However, the extent of this problem is unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how frequently 15 identified false facts were presented on DV agencies’ websites in their fact sheets. All member agencies of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV;N= 2,180) were investigated to see if they have websites and fact sheets on their websites. The fact sheets were then examined to see whether they presented any of the 15 false facts. The most frequently mentioned false fact was, “According to the FBI, a woman is beaten every (fill in the blank) seconds in the United States,” presented by 34.9% of the agencies with fact sheets. Results are discussed in terms of their limitations and their implications for the field of DV, paying particular attention to how the proliferation of these false facts may undermine the credibility of the DV field and also harm the very people the agencies are trying to help.

The United States and Alternative Energies since 1980: Technological Fix or Regime Change?

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 103-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E Nye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
Technological Momentum ◽  
Alternative Energies ◽  
Kaya Identity

Awareness of global warming has been widespread for two decades, yet the American political system has been slow to respond. This essay examines, first, political explanations for policy failure, focusing at the federal level and outlining both short-term partisan and structural explanations for the stalemate. The second section surveys previous energy regimes and the transitions between them, and policy failure is explained by the logic of Thomas Hughes’s ‘technological momentum’. The third section moves to an international perspective, using the Kaya Identity and its distinction between energy intensity and carbon intensity to understand in policy terms ‘technological fixes’ vs. low-carbon alternatives. The final section reframes US energy policy failure and asks: (1) Why, between 1980 and 1999, was America’s actual performance in slowing CO2emissions better than its politics would seem capable of delivering? (2) How and why has the United States since c. 2007 managed to reduce per capita CO2emissions?

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