Massachusetts Municipal Profiles
Massachusetts Municipal Profiles

Author: Information Publications, Incorporated

Publisher: Information Publications

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780911273380

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Massachusetts Municipal Profiles contains a one-page profile of every incorporated municipality in the state, alphabetically arranged. The profile pages are laid out in an easy-to-use, three column format, presenting over 100 facts. Categories of information about each municipality include:General Information: including address and phone number of municipal offices; year municipality incorporated; land and water area; and moreVoters & Government Information: including number of Democrats, Republicans and total registered voters; legislative districts; names of local officials; and moreDemographics & Housing: including total population; population by race, gender and age; educational attainment; unemployment and occupation; number of households; number of housing units; number of building permits; and moreSchool System: including School District address and phone; name of Superintendent; grade plan; total enrollment; per pupil expenditure; assessment test results; and moreMunicipal Finance & Taxation: revenues and expenditures for selected items, plus totals; property tax rate and valuation; average tax bill; and morePublic Library: including main library address and phone; name of Librarian; and selected library dataPublic Safety: including names of Police Chief and Emergency Official; number of sworn officers; and selected crime dataAppendices: including comparative tables for municipalities and counties, commonwealth of Massachusetts overview, additional school district information, and state and federal legislators. This title is updated annually from the most recently available government data sources, and contains a complete introduction and explanation of the categories.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997
Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997

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Publisher: Bureau of Census

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 9780160492815

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117th edition. Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Abstract of the United States

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Publisher: Bureau of Census

Published: 2004-02

Total Pages: 1056

ISBN-13:

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Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.

Politics, Language, and Culture
Politics, Language, and Culture

Author: Joseph W. Check

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2002-10-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Politics, language, and culture are three of the most powerful forces affecting education today, yet they have been little discussed in relation to systemic school reform, the new status quo of urban schools. This book looks at their effects through the eyes of teachers, administrators, and insider/outsiders who are actually living reform at the school level in four widely different urban school systems: Chicago, San Francisco and Oakland, California, and Boston. The book also creates a statistical and conceptual picture of urban education and school reform as national phenomena with deep historical roots, and offers a composite case study of an urban elementary school undergoing reform. The author argues that urban school reform is failing becasue its basic strategy is misguided and because reform thinking has consciously ignored three essential sources of knowledge about school change. Strategically, efforts for reform have relied heavily on the widespread replication of nationally promoted exemplary programs. This approach assumes that local schools lack the knowledge and will to solve their own problems and require prescriptive intervention from national models. In fact, the exemplary programs approach has yielded very limited success. What is needed instead is the creation and long-term support of unique, local exemplary contexts that combine best-practice approaches with local knowledge, conditions, and resources.

Becoming a Citizen
Becoming a Citizen

Author: Irene Bloemraad

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780520248984

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"Becoming a Citizen is a terrific book. Important, innovative, well argued, theoretically significant, and empirically grounded. It will be the definitive work in the field for years to come."--Frank D. Bean, Co-Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy "This book is in three ways innovative. First, it avoids the domestic navel-gazing of U.S .immigration studies, through an obvious yet ingenious comparison with Canada. Second, it shows that official multiculturalism and common citizenship may very well go together, revealing Canada, and not the United States, as leader in successful immigrant integration. Thirdly, the book provides a compelling picture of how the state matters in making immigrants citizens. An outstanding contribution to the migration and citizenship literature!"--Christian Joppke, American University of Paris

Sociologists in Action on Inequalities
Sociologists in Action on Inequalities

Author: Shelley K. White

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2014-05-19

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1483322297

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Sociologists in Action on Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, by Shelley K. White, Jonathan M. White, and Kathleen Korgen, is a brief anthology of original readings that are perfect for Race and Ethnicity; Race, Class, and Gender; Introduction to Sociology; Social Problems; Social Inequality; Senior Capstone and other courses taught through the central lens of diversity. Like its companion Sociologists in Action volume, on social change and social justice, this collection brings together dozens of accounts of sociologists who are using their sociology to make a positive impact on society. Each of the 30 selections describe, through firsthand experience, how sociology can be used to address enduring problems of prejudice and discrimination based on race, nationality, class, gender, and sexuality. Discussion questions and suggested readings and resources at the end of every chapter will provide students with opportunities to delve further into the topics covered and help create full and nuanced discussions, grounded in the "real world" work of public and applied sociologists.

The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements
The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements

Author: Tiyambe Zeleza

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2006-06-15

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 2869784236

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This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts. Topics addressed in part one include: trans-boundary formations and the study of Africa; global economic liberalisation and development in Africa; African diasporas, academics and the struggle for a global epistemic presence; and the problem of translation in African studies. Part two considers: African and area studies in France, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden; anti-colonialism and Russian/soviet African studies; African studies in the Caribbean in historical perspective; the teaching of African history and the history of Africa in Brazil; African studies in India; African studies and historiography in China in the twenty-first century; and African studies and contemporary scholarship in Japan.