Author: Michael R. Phillips Publisher: ISBN: 9780786247240 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 520
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In this 19th century saga of an aristocratic Scottish family, Maggie Duncan is torn between her obligations as a dutiful daughter and her dislike of her father's pursuit of power.
Author: David K. Cohen Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300133340 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 238
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Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students’ learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students’ scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in many states. The authors of this important book argue that effective state reform depends on conditions which most reforms ignore: coherence in practice as well as policy and opportunities for professional learning. The book draws on a decade’s detailed study of California’s ambitious and controversial program to improve mathematics teaching and learning. Researchers David Cohen and Heather Hill report that state policy influenced teaching and learning when there was consistency among the tests and other policy instruments; when there was consistency among the curricula and other instruments of classroom practice; and when teachers had substantial opportunities to learn the practices proposed by the policy. These conditions were met for a minority of elementary school teachers in California. When the conditions were met for teachers, students had higher scores on state math tests. The book also shows that, for most teachers, the reform ended with consistency in state policy. They did not have access to consistent instruments of classroom practice, nor did they have opportunities to learn the new practices which state policymakers proposed. In these cases, neither teachers nor their students benefited from the state reform. This book offers insights into the ways policy and practice can be linked in successful educational reform and shows why such linkage has been difficult to achieve. It offers useful advice for practitioners and policymakers seeking to improve education, and to analysts seeking to understand it.
Author: Heather Hillsburg Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781032090825 Category : Abduction in literature Languages : en Pages : 152
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Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre she calls Urban Captivity Narrative. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the narratives examined in the study follows a female protagonist who has survived abduction.
Author: Jim Brogden Publisher: SAP PRESS ISBN: 9781493210572 Category : Business intelligence Languages : en Pages : 0
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Sharpen your data presentations with this comprehensive guide to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. From creating a report, to displaying data via charts, to sharing reports with others, get everything from the basics to the actionable details that inform your work. This third edition of our best-selling book on WebI includes UI and functionality changes for SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 and expanded coverage of new topics like SAP HANA and mobility. Make your reporting and analysis intelligent Web Intelligence 4.1Flex your sales analysis and reporting muscles with usability improvements, new language support, and enhanced workflows for SAP HANA and BW data sources with the newest version of WebI. From Creation to PublicationGet the complete picture of working with WebI. From the first steps to the last, learn how to design reports that make an impact. Mobile IntegrationExplore the new features of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.x and learn how you can provide advanced analytics on mobile devices. Highlights: Release 4.1 HTML and Java viewers SAP HANA variable support Report creation Report Panel Data filters Drill-down Query Panel functionality BI Launch Pad Enhanced BI Mobile features Web Intelligence Rich Client
Author: Heather Catto Kohout Publisher: Women in Texas History Series ISBN: 9781623499501 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament--as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; and the founder of a residency program for environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country--permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic sensibility, and an ability to laugh--gently--at her fellow creatures and, especially, herself. Heather Kohout's essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an attempt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial agriculture; the pleasure of letting the chickens out of their coop in the morning; and the battle to save the Georgetown salamander. Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to, nature. These essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas womanhood: stubborn independence, fierce conviction, good humor, and instinctive generosity and kindness.
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