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Qualitative Study of Kindergarten Teacher–Superintendent Interactions: Symbolic Interaction Analysis
This paper presents a qualitative study of the interactions between public kindergarten teachers and their superintendents, using the symbolic...
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The Role of School District Superintendent in School Violence and Prevention: Softening Schools While Hardening Buildings
For those charged with running school districts and individual schools, a fine balance exists. On one hand, we must create and implement systems,...
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The limits of the “system of schools” approach: Superintendent perspectives on change efforts in U.S. Catholic school systems
Catholic schooling in the United States is suffering from a persistent enrollment crisis that has triggered the need for system-wide organizational...
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Institutions and State Policies
This chapter analyzes State-science cooperation in northern Italy from the 1760s to the 1810s in strengthening agriculture as well as animal...
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Deconstructing Iconic and Historicist State Buildings
Representation of state architecture is directly controlled by the political power symbolizing the different state personalities and how they...
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New Interpretation of a State Crime
On June 10, 1924, Giacomo Matteotti, a young member of the Italian Parliament and Secretary of the Socialist Unitary Party (PSU), was kidnapped...
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Changes to External Relations: State Agencies
There have long been questions about legislative oversight and the role that it plays in state legislatures. There have also been speculations over...
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The politics of conflict and conservation in the state of Kerala, India
This article puts forth the idea that ecology is political. The paper seeks to understand the underlying social, political and economic factors...
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Knowledge and dispensing practice of community pharmacists towards antipsychotic medicines in a Nigerian metropolitan city – a cross-sectional study
BackgroundAntipsychotic drugs are prescription-only-medications which require valid prescriptions before it can be obtained from a pharmacy. On the...
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The Paths They Wore: Shoes on Feet at the Syracuse State School
Walking is frequently taken for granted as something that all people do in the same way. However, walking is a biocultural phenomenon that is...
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Making Sense of Heuristic Choice in Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence from South Korea
Heuristics are used to compensate for the limitations of human cognitive capacities. However, little is known about how voters decide what cue to use...
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The State of Ohio’s Auditors, the Enumeration of Population, and the Project of Eugenics
In 1856, the State of Ohio began an enumeration of its population to count and identify people with disabilities. This paper examines the ethical...
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Challenges to State Governance in FATA—‘State-in-Society’ Approach
The chapter attempts to locate the tribal society within the larger context of Pakistan in order to capture relationship between the Pakistani state...
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Administration of Juvenile Correctional Facilities
The development of separate facilities to house juveniles convicted of criminal offenses grew out of the Child Savers Movement and the creation of...
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Stewart, Robert Meldrum
Robert Meldrum Stewart was director of the Dominion Observatory and superintendent of the national timekee** service of Canada. He served as the...
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Emergency Financial Management: Purposes and Effects of State Takeovers of Local School Districts in Michigan, 2009–2018
Equitable education policy must be directed toward improving the quality of education for all children. Efforts to establish equity often meet with...
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Police, Race, Crime, and Leadership: Interview with William J. Bratton
William J. “Bill” Bratton is America’s best-known and most experienced police leader, having served in leadership positions and as chief executive of...
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High School Sex Education in the Context of State Mandates and Policies in New Jersey: a Qualitative Retrospective Study of Student Experiences
IntroductionHistorically in the USA, divergent views about sex education have led to inconsistency in implementation. While state standards and...
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Bento Almeida d’Eça: Hydraulic Agriculture under the umbrella of Engineers in Nineteenth Century Portugal
In mid-nineteenth century Portugal, the practice of irrigation was deemed to be completely backwards in comparison with the prevailing European...
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Patent Quality: A Critique of the State of the Discussion
Despite decades of research and debate, the narrative that low-quality patents stifle innovation remains fraught with controversy. It is called into...