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... used for outreach to make more educators, librarians, and rural health care providers aware of the programs and for evaluation to update and analyze data on program utilization and to assess ... Legitimacy to ImplementationThis chapter advocates an information age social contract that provides universal access to broadband. A social contract of this nature derives its le-gitimacy ... contemporary technological tools at hand to craft a media system that is as diverse and com-petitive as it can be and that serves the informational needs and interests of local communities to the...
... Property and Exchange 35 has just transformed into a wheatfield—and vice versa of course for an Iowan baby and a Pakistani farm. Land in its original state is unused and unowned. Georgists and ... his use; she has become his own; she is his property. This property is legitimate; it constitutes a right as sacred for man as is the free exercise of his faculties. Itis his because it has ... denying natural human rights to one set of humans. Moreover, as we shall see, allowing Class Ato own Class B means that the former is allowed to exploit, and therefore to live parasitically, at...
... system lacked performance indicators, and the scant performance information that it provided to teachers and administrators meant little to them because they had no authority to make changes ... rigid and outdated and having proved resistant to reform efforts.BackgroundQatar isa small Islamic and Arab nation, rich in natural resources (oil and natural gas) but without many citizens. Indeed, ... Student Assessment QEWC Qatar Electricity and Water Company QCEA Qatar Comprehensive Educational AssessmentQNEDS Qatar National Education Data SystemQSAS Qatar Student Assessment SystemQU Qatar...
... ﻡﺎﻴﻘﻟﺍ•iv Education foraNew Era A research brief: ANew System for K–12 Education in Qatar. is document is available in English as RAND RB-9248-QATAR and in Arabic as RAND RB-9248/1-QATAR.All three ... reform as it moves forward:Build more local capacity to manage the reform. Increased expertise is needed in Qatar’s teaching workforce and among the Institute staff. Non-Qatari specialists are ... operators did not have to invest capital to start a school. To make staffing easier, the Institute negotiated arrangements with the Ministry to allow its teachers to join the new schools without...
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... CHAMBERLAIN, Administrative Coordinator TANJA PILZAK, Manager, Program Operations CELESTE A. NAYLOR, Information Management Associate CHRISTINA O. SHIPMAN, Financial Officer SANDRA WILSON, Financial ... precision of navigation maneuvers performed by crew) that could be linked to data on crew characteristics and made available for data mining. Such a database would enable scientists to address ... research capitalizes on routinely captured operational data that could be used to address biomedical research questions. For example, NASA already has extensive operational data (e.g., to enable...
... Laboratory,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, LosAlamos National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, ArgonneNational Laboratory, Oak Ridge National ... OfficerSUSANNA CLARENDON, Financial AssociatePANOLA GOLSON, Project AssistantANA-MARIA IGNAT, Project AssistantSHANNA LIBERMAN, Project Assistant1 NAE = National Academy of Engineeringx ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAlthough ... technical area isa major collaborative effort of theindividual partners, the national laboratories, and a few universities. The PacificNorthwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National...
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... This approach is mainly directed at describing reality and not at making an effort to understand it. That is why the conceptual approach is described as a descriptive approach as opposed to ... limited empirical material, for example, a limited number of cases which are studied in great detail. This naturally leads, just as in the action analytical approach, to problems of generality ... having many different definitions it was not possible to get quantitative and comparable data and a statistically representative sample for the research. Furthermore, a restricted theoretical approach...