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Young America

Childhood in 19th-century Art and Culture

By: Claire Perry,Curator of American Art Iris and B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Claire Perry,Stanford University Cantor Arts Center,Smithsonian American Art Museum,Portland Museum of Art,Portland art museum (Or.)

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Young America

Childhood in 19th-century Art and Culture

A delightful look at how nineteenth-century American artists portrayed children and childhood

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258

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Yale University Press

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0300106203

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9780300106206

The Shriver Report

A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

By: Maria Shriver,The Center for American Progress

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The Shriver Report

A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

By: Maria Shriver,The Center for American Progress

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors. Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children who depend on them. The fragile economic status of millions of American women is the shameful secret of the modern era—yet these women are also our greatest hope for change, and our nation’s greatest undervalued asset. The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink asks—and answers—big questions. Why are millions of women financially vulnerable when others have made such great progress? Why are millions of women struggling to make ends meet even though they are hard at work? What is it about our nation—government, business, family, and even women themselves—that drives women to the financial brink? And what is at stake? To forge a path forward, this book brings together a power-packed roster of big thinkers and talented contributors, in a volume that combines academic research, personal reflections, authentic photojournalism, groundbreaking poll results, and insights from frontline workers; political, religious, and business leaders; and major celebrities—all focused on a single issue of national importance: women and the economy. “A startling wake-up call for policymakers and anyone hoping to survive a culture that siphons wealth upward to a very powerful few.” —Booklist Contributors include: Carol Gilligan, PhD * Barbara Ehrenreich * Beyoncé Knowles-Carter * LeBron James * Anne-Marie Slaughter * Kirsten Gillibrand * Hillary Rodham Clinton * Tory Burch * Sister Joan Chittister * Arne Duncan * Kathleen Sibelius * Howard Schultz * and more!

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685

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Rosetta Books

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0795339615

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9780795339615

Getting Value Out of Value-Added

Report of a Workshop

By: National Academy of Education,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Committee on Value-Added Methodology for Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation, and Educational Accountability

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Getting Value Out of Value-Added

Report of a Workshop

Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted considerable attention because of their potential applicability for educational accountability, teacher pay-for-performance systems, school and teacher improvement, program evaluation, and research. Value-added methods involve complex statistical models applied to test data of varying quality. Accordingly, there are many technical challenges to ascertaining the degree to which the output of these models provides the desired estimates. Despite a substantial amount of research over the last decade and a half, overcoming these challenges has proven to be very difficult, and many questions remain unanswered-at a time when there is strong interest in implementing value-added models in a variety of settings. The National Research Council and the National Academy of Education held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to help identify areas of emerging consensus and areas of disagreement regarding appropriate uses of value-added methods, in an effort to provide research-based guidance to policy makers who are facing decisions about whether to proceed in this direction.

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National Academies Press

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0309148138

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9780309148139

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts

Transforming Visions of the American West

By: Jules David Prown,Buffalo Bill Historical Center,William Cronon,Yale University. Art Gallery,Nancy K. Anderson,Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art,Susan Prendergast Schoelwer

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Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts

Transforming Visions of the American West

By: Jules David Prown,Buffalo Bill Historical Center,William Cronon,Yale University. Art Gallery,Nancy K. Anderson,Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art,Susan Prendergast Schoelwer

A common theme of western American art is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this book, the authors look at western American art of the past three centuries, re-evaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history and American studies.

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248

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Yale University Press

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0300057318

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9780300057317

Kaufmann's Department Store

By: Melanie Linn Gutowski with the Senator John Heinz History Center

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Kaufmann's Department Store

By: Melanie Linn Gutowski with the Senator John Heinz History Center

Provides a pictorial history of Pittsburgh's landmark shopping emporium -- Kaufmann's Department Store -- from its humble beginning in 1871 to its merger with Federated Department Stores in 2006. -- Back cover.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467126829

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9781467126823

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Young America

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Getting Value Out of Value-Added

Getting Value Out of Value-Added

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts

Kaufmann's Department Store

Kaufmann's Department Store

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