Federally funded study of ducks' reproductive evolution ignites a media controversy

Physics Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Federally Funded ◽  
Reproductive Evolution

After the Race to the Top: State and District Capacity to Sustain Professional Development Innovation in Florida

2021 ◽  
pp. 089590482110156
Author(s):  
Motoko Akiba ◽  
Cassandra Howard
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Instructional System ◽  
Implementation Fidelity ◽  
Race To The Top ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Strategic Adaptation

The Race to the Top (RTTT) program incentivized states to use innovation for systemwide improvement of student outcomes, but little is known about how RTTT-funded innovation was sustained after the RTTT program ended. This mixed-methods study examined state and district approaches to sustaining an international innovation called lesson study, a teacher-driven, collaborative, inquiry-based teacher learning process imported from Japan and promoted statewide in Florida. While the state’s role in sustaining lesson study was limited, we found that districts that integrated lesson study into the district instructional system through a clear expectation and strategic adaptation, supported school and teacher ownership of lesson study practice, and provided necessary support and funding were more likely to sustain lesson study. In contrast, the districts that focused on implementation fidelity and district-led facilitation eventually phased out lesson study. Policy implications for sustaining federally funded professional development innovations are discussed.

Anti-Sterilization Abuse Organizing: A Retrospective Examination

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Marian McDonald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Retrospective Examination ◽  
The U.S

November 1988 marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Government's adoption of guidelines for federally-funded sterilizations. This action was the result of years of organizing by the anti-sterilization abuse movement which grew in the early 1970s in response to the alarming increase in numbers of coercive sterilizations, particularly among poor and minority women. This retrospective examination looks at the strengths and weaknesses of anti-sterilization abuse organizing in the United States, and draws out lessons for other areas of work. It begins by exploring the problem of sterilization abuse and the history of the movement against it. The movement is analyzed using key theoretical concepts of community organizing. An evaluation indicates that the anti-abuse efforts were successful and rich with lessons for reproductive rights and other popular health struggles today.

From a Teacher Center Journal: Hypotheses about Inservice

1981 ◽  
Vol 163 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-183
Author(s):  
Jinx Bohstedt
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Teacher Center

The first year of operation of a federally funded teacher center is described through a series of excerpts from the author's daily journal. This article focuses upon the practical aspects of implementing such a program while providing anecdotal accounts of the center's development. It offers a chronicle of the center's growth as well as its effects upon the teachers it came to serve during the first operational year, 1979–1980.

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