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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach +5 more
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Shuttered Public Schools: The Struggle to Bring Old Buildings New Life [PDF]
, 2013 Large-scale public school closures have become a fact of life in many American cities, and that trend is not likely to stop now. This report looks at what happens to the buildings themselves, studying the experiences of Philadelphia and 11 other cities ...
Emily Dowdall, Susan Warner
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Choice, charters, and public school competition [PDF]
In the last century, public schools changed in ways that dramatically reduced the control that parents have over their local schools. Regaining that control is one key to improving the quality of our schools, and giving students a choice of schools is ...
Eric A. Hanushek
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Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020 Researchers have demonstrated how venture philanthropic networks advance the growth of charter schools underpinned by market tenets. However, little remains known about how progressive charter schools mobilize financial support when most funding from ...
Elise Castillo
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Charter School Authorizers [PDF]
, 2013 Two types of charter schools exist in Arkansas: open-enrollment charter schools, which operate independently of any district, and district conversion charter schools, which operate within an existing school district. Charter schools have more autonomy on
Greenwood, Reed, Ritter, Gary W.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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, 2023 In this thesis we will examine the concept of chartering. Also, we will include the most important parts of the Charter Market industry, such as for example the persons who make it up, the main Chartering Centers, the Main forms of chartering and we will refer to the main types of charter agreements. There will also be full reference to the obligations
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Online Charter Schools' Operational and Instructional Practices: Highlights of Findings [PDF]
, 2015 Online charter schools -- also known as virtual charters or cyber charters -- are publicly funded schools of choice that deliver student instruction via telecommunications.
Brian Gill
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