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The Failed Promise
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Author : Robert S. Levine
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2022-08-02
The Failed Promise written by Robert S. Levine and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with History categories.
Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast himself as a “Moses” for the Black community, and African Americans were optimistic that he would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Despite this early promise, Frederick Douglass, the country’s most influential Black leader, soon grew disillusioned with Johnson’s policies and increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic and pivotal meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the course of Reconstruction. As he lectured across the country, Douglass continued to attack Johnson’s policies, while raising questions about the Radical Republicans’ hesitancy to grant African Americans the vote. Johnson meanwhile kept his eye on Douglass, eventually making a surprising effort to appoint him to a key position in his administration. Levine grippingly portrays the conflicts that brought Douglass and the wider Black community to reject Johnson and call for a guilty verdict in his impeachment trial. He brings fresh insight by turning to letters between Douglass and his sons, speeches by Douglass and other major Black figures like Frances E. W. Harper, and articles and letters in the Christian Recorder, the most important African American newspaper of the time. In counterpointing the lives and careers of Douglass and Johnson, Levine offers a distinctive vision of the lost promise and dire failure of Reconstruction, the effects of which still reverberate today.
The Failed Promise Of The American High School 1890 1995
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Author : David L. Angus
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 1999
The Failed Promise Of The American High School 1890 1995 written by David L. Angus and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Education categories.
This provocative new study of the American high school examines the historical debates about curriculum policy and also traces changes in the institution itself, as evidenced by what students actually studied. Contrary to conventional accounts, the authors argue that beginning in the 1930s, American high schools shifted from institutions primarily concerned with academic and vocational education to institutions mainly focused on custodial care of adolescents. Claiming that these changes reflected educators' racial, class, and gender biases, the authors offer original suggestions for policy adjustments that may lead to greater educational equality for our ever-growing and ever more diverse population of students.
The Death Of Human Capital
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Author : Phillip Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24
The Death Of Human Capital written by Phillip Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Social Science categories.
Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. In The Death of Human Capital?, Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and Sin Yi Cheung argue that the human capital story is one of false promise: investing in learning isn't the road to higher earnings and national prosperity. Rather than abandoning human capital theory, however, the authors redefine human capital in an age of smart machines. They present a new human capital theory that rejects the view that automation and AI will result in the end of waged work, but see the fundamental problem as a lack of quality jobs offering interesting, worthwhile, and rewarding opportunities. A controversial challenge to the reigning ideology, The Death of Human Capital? connects with a growing sense that capitalism is in crisis, felt by students and the wider workforce, shows what's at stake in the new human capital while offering hope for the future.
The Triumph Of Broken Promises
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Author : Fritz Bartel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-09
The Triumph Of Broken Promises written by Fritz Bartel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-09 with Business & Economics categories.
A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people. Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and communist governments to expand their social contracts as they raced to deliver their people a better life. But the economic shocks of the 1970s made promises of better living untenable on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Energy and financial markets placed immense pressure on governments to discipline their social contracts. Rather than make promises, political leaders were forced to break them. In a sweeping narrative, The Triumph of Broken Promises tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy.
Troubled
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Author : Kenneth R. Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Little A
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Troubled written by Kenneth R. Rosen and has been published by Little A this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An award-winning journalist's breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails. In the middle of the night, they are vanished. Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control--suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage--are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these "troubled teens" fear it's their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever. Acclaimed journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out at these programs. He lived it. In Troubled, Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on their own scarred journeys through the programs into adulthood. Based on three years of reporting and more than one hundred interviews with other clients, their parents, psychologists, and health-care professionals, Troubled combines harrowing storytelling with investigative journalism to expose the disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry. Not without hope, Troubled ultimately delivers an emotional, crucial tapestry of coming of age, neglect, exploitation, trauma, and fraught redemption.
Syriza
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Author : Cas Mudde
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-14
Syriza written by Cas Mudde and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-14 with Political Science categories.
This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism. Through a collection of sharp and short articles and interviews that critically chronicle the rapid rise of SYRIZA, the author argues that SYRIZA is not so much a new European phenomenon, but rather a rejuvenated form of an old Greek phenomenon, left populism, which overpromises and seldom delivers. By putting the phenomenon of SYRIZA within a broader Greek and European context, in which political extremism and populism are increasingly threatening liberal democracy, Mudde argues that Greece is neither a new Weimar Germany nor the future of Europe. As SYRIZA has failed to bring the change it promised, the only remaining question now is whether it can establish itself in the Greek party system. This book will be of use to students and scholars interested in Greek politics, comparative politics, populism, and extremism.
Illusion Of Order
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Author : Bernard E. Harcourt
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-15
Illusion Of Order written by Bernard E. Harcourt and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-15 with Social Science categories.
This is the first book to challenge the broken-windows theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce misdemeanor laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of law abiders and disorderly people and of order and disorder, which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice--a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens--come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new, more thoughtful vision of criminal justice.
The Failed Promise Of The Corporation For National Service
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Failed Promise Of The Corporation For National Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
Diversity Inc
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Author : Pamela Newkirk
language : en
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Release Date : 2019-10-22
Diversity Inc written by Pamela Newkirk and has been published by Bold Type Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with Social Science categories.
One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019 An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry--and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions. Diversity has become the new buzzword, championed by elite institutions from academia to Hollywood to corporate America. In an effort to ensure their organizations represent the racial and ethnic makeup of the country, industry and foundation leaders have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to commission studies, launch training sessions, and hire consultants and diversity czars. But is it working? In Diversity, Inc., award-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk shines a bright light on the diversity industry, asking the tough questions about what has been effective--and why progress has been so slow. Newkirk highlights the rare success stories, sharing valuable lessons about how other industries can match those gains. But as she argues, despite decades of handwringing, costly initiatives, and uncomfortable conversations, organizations have, apart from a few exceptions, fallen far short of their goals. Diversity, Inc. incisively shows the vast gap between the rhetoric of inclusivity and real achievements. If we are to deliver on the promise of true equality, we need to abandon ineffective, costly measures and commit ourselves to combatting enduring racial attitudes
American Literary Realism And The Failed Promise Of Contract
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Author : Brook Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
American Literary Realism And The Failed Promise Of Contract written by Brook Thomas and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
In American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract, the author explores the interplay between contract law and literary realism in late nineteenth-century America, a time when both contract law and realism shaped cultural, legal, and social landscapes. The text argues that while contract law in theory emphasized the freedom to negotiate obligations among individuals, it fell short in practice by failing to dismantle deeply entrenched inequalities associated with race, class, and gender. The era’s literature mirrored this dynamic, as authors highlighted the gap between the idealized promises of contractual freedom and the enduring constraints of status. Through this lens, literary realism not only reflected society’s inequities but also critiqued the legal and social systems that perpetuated them. Realism, which sought to represent everyday life in a grounded, unembellished way, intersected with the contract’s promise by portraying social relations as complex and negotiated, yet constrained by systemic hierarchies. Works like Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and James’s The American evoke moments where relationships of status could theoretically transform into equitable, "contractual" interactions. However, these fictional moments of promise often falter, reflecting contract's inability to establish a truly egalitarian social order. The rise of corporate capitalism further complicated contract’s promise, as corporations fostered a form of economic structure that subordinated individual agency, reinforcing rather than alleviating social inequities. The text also considers how these issues resonate today, especially as contractual ideals influence contemporary notions of social justice. While the promise of contract continues to appeal to a vision of equal opportunity, the persistent influence of race, class, and gender hierarchies complicates its realization. The author suggests that revisiting works of realism offers valuable insights into these ongoing tensions, challenging readers to reimagine a society where individuals might genuinely be “free and equal,” not just in theory but in practice. In doing so, this book presents realism not as an endorsement of the status quo but as a field of critical inquiry, urging us to address the unresolved questions about equity that persist in American society. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.