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Type-written ms. ; Thesis (M.A.)--University of California. ; Mode of access: Internet.

21st January 2019 marked one hundred years after the founding of the first Irish parliament since the Act of Union in 1801, Dáil Éireann. Prior to that date, Irish Members of Parliament were elected to Westminster. The previous year, 1918, the right to vote was granted to all men over the age of 21 and to women over the age of thirty with assets to the value of £5, or, indeed, married to men with such riches, in Britain and Ireland. The first opportunity to activate the vote was on the 14th December 1918, and the first woman elected to The House of Commons was Constance Markievicz, born Constance Gore-Booth, in County Sligo, Ireland.

AbstractAt the core of the German system of welfare provision stand social insurance schemes whose central role contributes to Germany being labelled a social insurance state. In recent decades, Germany has been experiencing major social policy reforms that are often evaluated as paradigm changes. These changes have been reflected in analyses that sometimes even questioned common classifications of the German welfare state. The article sheds light on recent developments that have affected the German system of social insurance. It focuses on four aspects of social insurance: benefits, financing, governance, and coverage. Although confirming many earlier analyses of reforms in detail and sharing assessments of changes such as retrenchment and marketization, the article nevertheless stresses that social insurance remains structurally intact and that the work–welfare nexus underlying welfare provision has been reinterpreted but not surrendered.

"An expansion of a little work contributed nearly twenty years ago to the Temple primer series, under the title A short history of politics."--Pref ; Mode of access: Internet.

Includes index. ; "An expansion of a little work contributed nearly twenty years ago to the Temple primer series, under the title A short history of politics."--Pref. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Abstract.  Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 are designed to protect the civil rights of individuals with disabilities. These two laws have had a major impact on public schools, their offerings of services, and their budgets. The purpose of the present study is to determine if passage of the ADA in 1990 has resulted in a statistically significant increase in per‐student public education expenditures at the state level. Although numerous studies have estimated educational cost functions, no prior study has examined the impact of the ADA on per‐capita educational spending. Results of the present study indicate that the ADA increased per‐student educational spending at the state level, but by less than 2 percent. By way of comparison, Rothstein and Miles (1995) noted in their study that desegregation added 4.1 percent to per‐pupil spending and bilingual education added 3.9 percent.

Over the last twenty years a wide range of Islamic educational opportunities have been developed to meet the needs of China's 20 million plus Muslim population. In addition to mosque schools, government Islamic colleges, and independent Islamic colleges, a growing number of students have gone overseas to continue their studies at international Islamic universities in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, and Malaysia.Â

Over the last twenty years a wide range of Islamic educational opportunities have been developed to meet the needs of China's 20 million plus Muslim population. In addition to mosque schools, government Islamic colleges, and independent Islamic colleges, a growing number of students have gone overseas to continue their studies at international Islamic universities in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, and Malaysia.

AbstractOver the past half century, there has been an increasing prevalence of legalized gambling in the U.S. At the same time, there is a general recognition, empirically supported in the economics literature, that spending on lottery and gaming products tends to be regressive in nature. In addition, gambling addiction is a widely acknowledged social problem. This raises the question of whether the increased presence of casinos and state lotteries results in relatively more bankruptcy filings in the states that offer them. This paper adds to the existing literature by comparing the relative impact of the presence of lotteries to that of casinos on both personal and business bankruptcies. States that adopted lotteries and casinos prior to 1995 experienced significantly higher personal bankruptcy rates while the effect of lottery and casino adoption on personal bankruptcies has disappeared since that time.

This update marks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) fifth preparedness report demonstrating how federal investments enhance the nation's ability to respond to public health threats and emergencies. In 2011, CDC identified 15 public health preparedness capabilities as the basis for state and local preparedness. The 50 states, 4 localities, and 8 territories, commonwealths, and freely associated states ('insular areas") funded by CDC's Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement use their funding to achieve the capabilities. This 2012 state-by-state report presents available data that display trends and document progress related to 3 of the 15 preparedness capabilities: public health laboratory testing, emergency operations coordination, and emergency public information and warning. These data points do not represent all preparedness activities occurring in states, localities, and insular areas, but provide available data for the three capabilities. As other data become available, they will be included in future reports. ; About this report -- Background -- Key findings and looking forward -- Laboratory testing capability: identifying and understanding emerging public health threats -- Emergency operations coordination (EOC) and emergency public information and warning (EPIW) capabilities: recognizing and responding to public health threats -- Fact sheets -- Appendix: Explanation of fact sheet data points ; Title from PDF title screen (CDC, viewed Sept. 22, 2011). ; "9/20/12" - date from document properties ; This report was developed by the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ; Mode of access: Internet. (Arobat .pdf file: 11.11 MB, 150 p.).

School management plays an extremely important role in any educational institution. The objective of this work is to identify the main challenges for the exercise of school management in a participatory and democratic way. Research was carried out on the main aspects involved in the exercise of educational management. It was concluded that, together with the school community, the manager is responsible for the good progress of the school, being under his care the administrative and pedagogical part, among the various problems that occur in daily life.