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The author begins her examination of Germanys educational system with a general analysis of the processes of German unification in an attempt to determine whether it was really necessary to proceed so quickly. The answer, she finds, comes in the affirmatve. Given this imperative and in light of Easterners dissatisfaction with their existing system, the New Bundesländer accepted and implemented variants of the content and structures of the Old Bundesländer. A critique of the reforms of education in the New Bundesländer is therefore simultaneously a critique of education in the Old Bundesländer, with the added variable that the circumstances in which the reforms had to be implemented were extraordninarily inclement in the East with its widespread economic collapse, mass unemployment and democtratic decline of unprecedented dimension. The book deals with schools structure and its implications for equity, the political dimensions of methodology and curriculum content, and the introduction of the Dual System of vocational education in a sick economy. It also looks at how the authorities dealt with the values vacuum left by the demise of Marxism-Leninism, and how the churches handled the challenges of setting up denominational schools and religious education in a country where there has been little mandate for Christianity. Finally, the book also addresses, in some details, the important issues facing higher education in the East: the cull of staff in East German universities, the attempt to introduce academic freedom and increase access, and the danger that East German universities may became subject to some of the shortcomings which for so long have characterized higher education in the West. Numerous case studies and substantial interview material richly illustrate the authors arguments. Gliederung: 1. The fall of the wall. - 2. Reforming the school structures. - 3. School life and learning. - 4. Religious education, church schools and ethics. - 5. Training for the world of work. - 6. Renewing the teaching profession and higher education. - 7. In retrospect. - Appendix I: Articles on education and higher education and research from the Unification Treaty. - Appendix II: A questionnaire used to evaluate teachers for political soundness. (HoF/Text übernommen)

Strategies for reducing emissions and depositions in European countries experiences from the elaboration of the Second Sulphur Protocol. / M. Wietschel ... (Prep.). - (EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.8). Flue gas cleaning at German power station: precaution by state of art. / Manfred Hildebrand (Prep.). - (EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.9) Impact of energy conservation, fuel and technology switch on national emission reduction potentials and emission reduction costs. / A. Jattke ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.10) Natural gas processing and operating in Germany. / T. Luebcke (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/11) Reductions of VOC emissions from painting of car bodies. / P. Adler (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/12) Recent developments in emission control technologies and application in the energy sector. / R. Dorn ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/13) Use of selective catalytic reduction process for removal of NOX from the FCCU regenerator flue gas at Scanraff Refinery, Sweden. / Norman Burcher (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/14) Flue gas cleaning at German power station. / Manfred Hildebrand (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/15) Cost-effectiveness of environmental measures in industry. / J. Oonk ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/16) Assessment of the VOC emission generated through the application of organic solvent-based coatings and identification of progressive emission reduction measures for non-regulated coatings plants. / E. Mink ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/17) VOC control technology. / H. Krill (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.18) A review of the options to reduce VOC emissions due to the use of organic solvents. / C. Kippelen-Mollenkopf ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.19 By-product management in the iron and steel industry. / T. Penkuhn ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.20 Absorptive solvent recovery in foil processing. - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.21 Utilization of by-products from coal-fired power plants in the Federal Republic of Germany. / W. vom Berg ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.22 Organizational and technical measures to be taken prior to incineration, to influence the quality and quantity of incineration residues. / P. G. Mast ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.23 The economics of residue management. - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.24 Residues from advanced combustion systems and from non-coal fuels. - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R. 25 Legal instruments for the prevention and recovery of waste. / S. Krieger (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.26 Strategies for reducing emissions of air pollutants in Austria. / K. Radunsky (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.27 Primary reduction of emissions mainly of Nitrogen oxides of stoker grate equipment using the Syncom process. / E. Peppler ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.28 Advanced gas engine cogeneration technology for special applications measures for reducing pollutants. / M. Wagner (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.29 Combined firing of biomass and coal at the power plant St. Andrä. / G. Zellinger (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.30 The new development of new legislation on air pollution abatement in Croatia. / J. Necak ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.31 Experiences with NOx reduction techniques in a natural gas/oil fired power plant. / M. Novak ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.32 Elimination of dioxins by activated carbon flue gas scrubbing. / H. Hofstetter (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.33 The flue gas desulfurisation plant in the Schwechat refinery. / M. Jüttner (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.34 Three effective methods to remove polluting trace elements as dioxins and furans. - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.35 Biological gas desulphurization. / H. Dijkman (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.36 Exhaust emission control concepts for stationary gas engines in Hungary. / Attila Meggyes (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.37 NOx reduction in flue gas from large-size boilers. / K. Remenyi (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.38 VEAG utilisation of power plant materials. / M. Recker ... (Prep.). - EB.AIR/SEM.3/R.39 Primary and secondary measures to reduce emissions from existing VEAG lignite-fired power plants

When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But he delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in half -- and Bill Bratton was heralded as the most charismatic and respected law enforcement official in America. In this outspoken account of his news-making career, Bratton reveals how his cutting-edge policing strategies brought about the historic reduction in crime. Bratton's success made national news and landed him on the cover of Time. It also landed him in political hot water. He earned such positive press that before he'd completed his first week on the job, the administration of New York's media-hungry mayor Rudolph Giuliani, threatened to fire him. The author gives a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the sizzle and substance, and he pulls no punches describing the personalities who really run the city. Bratton grew up in a working-class Boston neighborhood, always dreaming of being a cop. As a young officer under Robert di Grazia, Boston's progressive police commissioner, he got a ground-level view of real police reform and also saw what happens when an outspoken, dynamic, reform-minded police commissioner starts to outshine an ambitious mayor. He was soon in the forefront of the community policing movement and a rising star in the profession. Bratton had turned around four major police departments when he accepted the number one police job in America. When he arrived at the NYPD, New York's Finest were almost hiding; they had given up on preventing crime and were trying only to respond to it. Narcotics, Vice, Auto Theft, and the Gun Squads all worked banker's hours while the competition -- the bad guys -- worked around the clock. Bratton changed that. He brought talent to the top and instilled pride in the force; he listened to the people in the neighborhoods and to the cops on the street. Bratton and his "dream team" created Compstat, a combination of computer statistics analysis and an unwavering demand for accountability. Cops were called on the carpet, and crime began to drop. With Bratton on the job, New York City was turned around. Today, New York's plummeting crime rate and improved quality of life remain a national success story. Bratton is directly r ...