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Visionary Leadership in Cancer Care: An Interview With Professor Timothy J. Eberlein
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Professor Timothy J. Eberlein and Professor Ken Shirabe, President of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, during their interview discussing the vision, strategic framework, and leadership that shaped the development of the Siteman Cancer Center into a world‐class institution. ABSTRACT This is a short interview with Professor Timothy J.
Ken Shirabe +3 more
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The Road Not Taken: Horace Mann Charter Schools in Massachusetts [PDF]
, 2006 Drawing on research with legislators, leaders at the Massachusetts Department of Education, heads of the major education associations, and charter school experts, this policy analysis seeks to identify reasons for the lack of interest in Horace Mann ...
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Patterns in Illinois educational school data
Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research, 2015 We examine Illinois educational data from standardized exams and analyze primary factors affecting the achievement of public school students. We focus on the simplest possible models: representation of data through visualizations and regressions on ...
Cacey S. Stevens +2 more
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Race, Class, and Religion: Creaming and Cropping in Religious, Ethnic, and Cultural Charter Schools
Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2016 This Article is devoted to one of the most fascinating contemporary developments in American public education—the phenomenal rise of religious, ethnic, and cultural charter schools.
Tammy Harel Ben Shahar
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Avoiding Accountability: How Charter Operators Evade Ohio's Automatic Closure Law [PDF]
, 2013 Ohio's charter-closure law is touted as one of the toughest in the nation because it requires the automatic closure of charter schools that consistently fail to meet academic standards.
Jennifer DePaoli, Piet van Lier
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester +16 more
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Do EMO-operated Charter Schools Serve Disadvantaged Students? The Influence of State Policies
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004 There is a paucity of research about how the policies enacted by states either foster or hinder charter schools’ service to disadvantaged students or how the characteristics of charter schools themselves affect this outcome. By combining data from the US
Natalie Lacireno-Paquet
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Better Choices: Charter Incubation as a Strategy for Improving the Charter School Sector [PDF]
, 2011 The twenty years since Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law have seen a great expansion in school choice, with charters operating in all but ten states and enrolling nearly two million students nationwide.
Joe Ableidinger, Julie Kowal
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