Education reform

Civil service reform and cutback management have both become an evolving area of concern regarding its role in public management. Many questions arise when it comes to the concerns of opportunities that are accessible to governmental decision makers in a period of economic reduction with expenditures, and the varieties of administrative tensions that are employed upon the organization when the strains of some assemblies cannot be satisfied. The twofold role of political servants and management…

because test scores were received in aggregate (Meeting the challenge, 1998). In 1997, North Carolina for the first time received student assessment data by school; making it apparent which schools were succeeding and which were not. The federal education legislation No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 further increased a state’s awareness of high- and low-performing schools when it required annual assessments in grades 3 through 8. This increased assessment of student progress yielded an…

and economic factors (Cooper, 1998; Osborne & Walker, 2006). Osborne High School’s Title 1 status, high transiency rate, and large minority population, has led many of our students in being labeled at-risk (National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education., n.d). “At-risk” students lack many of the skills they need to become successful and productive citizens (Charmaraman & Hall, 2011). These lack of basic skills shows that those who are in poverty and “at risk” will most…

Patients stays in the hospital for so many days to recover from surgery. Nurses only received a basic nursing education, and task based oriented. Today nursing has changed from wearing white uniform and cap to scrubs and non-cap wearing. They get good education at colleges and some universities, focusing on coordination of care, critical thinking, and clinical skills. As a result of healthcare reform, health care system focus is shifting toward high quality care, improve patient outcome, and…

Alfie Kohn, the author of “Poor Teaching for Poor Children…In the Name of School Reform,” is also the author of many other books regarding education and human behavior. His article, published in Education Week magazine, discusses his belief that standardized tests justify sub-par teaching methods and that they are counter-productive in closing the education gap between urban and middle-class students. Although no reader will disagree that poor children should suffer sub-par teaching, certain…

There were ten reform movement in the twentieth century. The ten reform movements are Civil Rights, Conservation, Government Reform, Health and Medicine, Labor Reform, Radical Trade Unionism, Socialism, Temperance, Trust Busting, and Women’s Rights. The most important ones that were addressed in 1900s were Women’s Rights, Labor Reform and Health and Medicine but also the other ones were very important but this ones were the most effect. After the civil war, Susan B. Anthony demanded that he…

Abolitionist reforms, whose main goal was the abolishment of slavery and then the equal rights of African Americans after they are freed. It was this group that was quite successful in the Northern States as they got many to agree with them on the topic of slavery (Faragher, 354-355). However, In the South, many of the ideas of this movement was suppressed by the Southerners as it threatened the men of their economic livelihood (Faragher, 355). The ideals that motivated the Abolition reforms…

America began to see true social reform in the nineteenth century, and much of the desire for an improve life came from religious movements. Early reform movements expanded from the Second Great Awakening, a period of religious revival mainly among Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians. The Awakening itself began in Western New York and quickly spread throughout the US, igniting a period of evangelicalism in both the South and the West. A couple reform societies sprang up in the South and in…

Dorothea Dix was an author, teacher, and reformer renowned for her strides in the improvement of treatment for the mentally insane. In her early years, she indulged her passion for learning through a career in teaching and encouraged women to pursue an education. In her later years, the hints of rebellious activism from her youth manifested into the tenacious, headstrong social reformer she is known as today. Whether it be as a teacher, reformer, or nurse, the exemplary work of Dorothea Dix has…

Several reform movements regarding the advancement of democratic ideals gained traction from 1825 to 1850. Activists were concerned with social and institutional issues, principal among these being temperance, abolitionism, women's rights, religion, education, and the penal system. However, this period also saw the emergence of decidedly anti-democratic nativist policies designed to oppress recently naturalized citizens. The pressure for social reform began as a response to perceived…