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Publisher: T.D. Thacher, State PrinterPublication date: 1885Subjects: Educational law and legislationNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Describes the winning performance of the Green Bay Packers in their Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. ... Read more

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Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as Englishman, faces his toughest re-election challenge yet. The radical religious right is out to unseat him, their candidate an Iraq war hero. Englishman’s only available deputy isn’t winning him votes. That very morning, while pursuing a vehicle, the hurried deputy rams a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir.
Englishman’s brother, Mad Dog, a born-again Cheyenne, rushes back from a quest to the Black Hills. He has had a premonition that the sheriff is in serious danger. Meanwhile, the sheriff’s daughters, attending separate colleges, wake with similar fears, cut classes, and hurry home to keep their father safe.
The sheriff believes the girls are the ones in need of protection as election day grows ever wilder. A student smuggles a gun into the school and begins shooting and taking hostages. A private army has seized a nearby farm and holds citizens, including Mad Dog, against their will. And, when he finds some spare time, Englishman needs to clear up one little thing about his deputy’s accident:Benteen County doesn’t have a teen choir. All this by sundown. It’s enough to make a sheriff wonder why he wants to serve another term. ... Read more

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26" X 26 1/2" folded map from 1931 ... Read more

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Shimmering illustrations full of visual surprises record the journey of a father and his son, trading wordplay and affection as they go, to the towering grain elevators that dot the Kansas landscape in the mid-day heat. ... Read more

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There IS No Place Like Home
A father and his son discover that Kansas does have mountains, and many other wonderful things, as they spend a Sunday afternoon bonding on the plains of Kansas.The charming story by George Shannon is beautifully illustrated by Thomas B. Allen.Gorgeous pastels of the wheat fields, grain elevators and sleepy main streets will be quickly recognizable to anyone from the midwest.The twist is - the words and illustrations will make you see your surroundings in a new way, just like the little boy in the book!

Mountains in Kansas?
Hey--Kansas isn't flat-there are many hills, and this book is an awesome read---and sooooooo funny.You don't have to be from Kansas to enjoy the midwest humor---everyone from Kansas doesn't not have a dog named Toto! You will also find little tidbits of history. ... Read more

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Leading a Sunday School class isn't easy.Sunday School teachers stay up late on Saturday nights preparing lessons, show up early at church every Sunday without fail, and often spend a large portion of their lesson focusing children's attention or mediating adult discussions.It's a commitment that requires dedication, sacrifice, and patience, but they faithfully serve every week because they know the eternal impact of their labors.Introducing a friend to the love of Christ, helping teenagers improve their self-worth, instilling biblical truth and God's love in the hearts and minds of little children--this is why they serve.

Devotions for Sunday School Teachers 2 is a collection of short devotionals designed to challenge, uplift, and inspire Sunday School teachers and small-group leaders.Authors Stan Toler, John Baldwin, and David Graves use their varied Sunday School experiences to share words of comfort and offer guidance, insight, and even a little humor in order to help teachers renew their commitment to serve and rediscover the joys of teaching the children of God.

Devotions for Sunday School Teachers and Devotions for Sunday School Teachers 2 are perfect for gift-giving and offer teachers opportunities to read, meditate, and pray for a short time on Sunday morning before class starts or use the included Scriptures and stories to supplement their own lessons. ... Read more

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When the United States entered World War II, it took more than industrial might to transform its tiny army--smaller than even Portugal's--into an overseas fighting force of more than eight and a half million. Peter Schifferle contends that the determination of American army officers to be prepared for the next big war was an essential component in America's ultimate triumph over its adversaries. Crucial to that preparation were the army schools at Fort Leavenworth.

Interwar Army officers, haunted by the bloodshed of World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive, fully expected to return to Europe to conclude the "unfinished business" of that conflict, and they prepared well. Schifferle examines for the first time precisely how they accomplished this through a close and illuminating look at the students, faculty, curriculum, and essential methods of instruction at Fort Leavenworth. He describes how the interwar officer corps there translated the experiences of World War I into effective doctrine, engaged in intellectual debate on professional issues, conducted experiments to determine the viability of new concepts, and used military professional education courses to substitute for the experience of commanding properly organized and resourced units.

Schifferle highlights essential elements of war preparation that only the Fort Leavenworth education could provide, including intensive instruction in general staff procedures, hands-on experience with the principles and techniques of combined arms, and the handling of large division-sized formations in combat. This readied army officers for an emerging new era of global warfare and enabled them to develop the leadership decision making they would need to be successful on the battlefield. But Schifferle offers more than a recitation of curriculum development through the skillful interweaving of personal stories about both school experiences and combat operations, collectively recounting the human and professional development of the officer corps from 1918 to 1945.

Well crafted and insightful, Schifferle's meticulously researched study shows how and why the Fort Leavenworth experience was instrumental in producing that impressive contingent of military officers who led the U.S. Army to final victory in World War II. By the end of the book, the attentive reader will also fully comprehend why the military professionals at Fort Leavenworth have come to think of it as the "Intellectual Center of the Army."

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Thorough study
Dr. Schifferle's book on Fort Leavenworth and its Command and General Staff College. Schifferle's thesis is that the CGSC was responsible for the exceptional performance of the U.S. Army during WWII and he makes his argument very well. The United States Army was underfunded and not very large when compared to the armies being organized in Europe and Asia, where it would soon be fighting. But the experienced faculty who came on board following WWI organized the CGSC in a well-thought-out manner and as a result the Army had a large number of trained staff officers and potential commanders to lead the divisions, corps, and armies created to beat the axis. Not necessarily an easy read but certainly an important book.

An Outstanding Work on a Seldom Researched Topic
I was very pleased to see my copy of Dr. Schifferle's work arrive. First, I note that the author has outstanding credentials for this topic.Here, the biographical information is understated for the general reader, but speaks volumes for people who know anything about the School of Advanced Military Studies.Clearly, Dr. Schifferle is an accomplished historian and an expert in his field.Second, I appreciate both the bibliography and footnotes; Iused both to gain insight into the scope and depth of the author's research. For example, I surveyed the sources that he used for the discussion on doctrinal development in the 1920's and found that material to be very interesting, to include the origins of the FM 100-5 manuals most professionals are so familiar with. Third, the text is well written prose with excellent analytical structure and substantive support for his arguments. In essense,I learned a lot about the Army as a "learning institution" in the inter-war years, showing the intellectual growth of officer corps as a whole (as opposed to the "intellectual leaders" that we so frequently read about).This book gave me a deeper appreciation for the relationships between experience (i.e. WWI), a flowering intellectual discourse (i.e. in professional journals), experimentation leading to new theory, resulting in new doctrine disseminated through the school system, and subsequently adjusted by new experience (i.e. WWII).This book clearly demonstrates the value of professional military education, illustrating many important concepts and innovations that reached fruition in WWII.

WAY TOO MANY FOOTNOTES !
My $34.93 book arrived today and I quickly thumbed through its contents.

I have concluded that CERTAIN books should be printed in two editions:
a.) fully annotated for scholars at the full price and
b.)"somewhat" annotated for general readers at a lower price.

The book is 295 pages long. The text consists of 196 pages and there are
57 pages of footnotes ( about 1/4 of the text ). Some of the footnotes are quite
detailed.The entire page 221, for example, expounds on TWO footnotes.Why couldn't some of the longer footnote contents be incorporated into the text ?
This would have made for a better "read".

For all readers' information, the bibliography is 23 pages long and the index is another 20 pages. Although the book was well written and informative, I would
suggest buying a used copy.
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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: A Text in Cooking and Syllabus in Sewing, Prepared for Use in the Kansas City Elementary Schools, Yet Eminently Fitted for Home Work; Original Published by: the Burton publishing co. in 1911 in 172 pages; Subjects: Cookery; Sewing; Cooking / General; Crafts & Hobbies / General; Crafts & Hobbies / Fashion; Crafts & Hobbies / Sewing; ... Read more

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This book examines the fundamental role of politics in funding our public schools and fills a conceptual imbalance in the current literature in school finance and educational policy. Unlike those who are primarily concerned about cost efficiency, Kenneth Wong specifies how resources are allocated for what purposes at different levels of the government. In contrast to those who focus on litigation as a way to reduce funding gaps, he underscores institutional stalemate and the lack of political will to act as important factors that affect legislative deadlock in school finance reform.

Wong defines how politics has sustained various types of "rules" that affect the allocation of resources at the federal, state, and local level. While these rules have been remarkably stable over the past twenty to thirty years, they have often worked at cross-purposes by fragmenting policy and constraining the education process at schools with the greatest needs.

Wong's examination is shaped by several questions. How do these rules come about? What role does politics play in retention of the rules? Do the federal, state, and local governments espouse different policies? In what ways do these policies operate at cross-purposes? How do they affect educational opportunities? Do the policies cohere in ways that promote better and more equitable student outcomes?

Wong concludes that the five types of entrenched rules for resource allocation are rooted in existing governance arrangements and seemingly impervious to partisan shifts, interest group pressures, and constitutional challenge. And because these rules foster policy fragmentation and embody initiatives out of step with the performance-based reform agenda of the 1990s, the outlook for positive change in public education is uncertain unless fairly radical approaches are employed.

Wong also analyzes four allocative reform models, two based on the assumption that existing political structures are unlikely to change and two that seek to empower actors at the school level. The two models for systemwide restructuring, aimed at intergovernmental coordination and/or integrated governance, would seek to clarify responsibilities for public education among federal, state, and local authorities--above all, integrating political and educational accountability. The other two models identified by Wong shift control from state and district to the schoool, one based on local leadership and the other based on market forces. In discussing the guiding principles of the four models, Wong takes care to identify both the potential and limitations of each.

Written with a broad policy audience in mind, Wong's book should appeal to professionals interested in the politics of educational reform and to teachers of courses dealing with educational policy and administration and intergovernmental relations.

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Jermiah's back---to school. He's got a bad case of the term paper blues, but it's still going to be a great year because the rest of the gang is here too. Matt, Penny, Luke, Trudy, and of course, everybody's favorite English teacher, Mr. ... Read more

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More to Kansas than Dorothy and Toto
Written for middle school students, this history is spiced with tales, photos and sidebars seldom seen in history books. My daughter loved the book because these characters match her fictional favorites for fortitude and impact. "Hey, Mom, listen to this..."Apparent exhaustiveresearch, unusual photos, strong creativity.The story-telling charm isoff-set, however, by misspelled words, omission of prehistoric eras, andrewrite of characters who are not socially mainstream or exemplary. Kansaswas more diverse and colorful than this book portrays. Was truth thinned toassure that the book would "sell" to schools?History is meantto be rich. It is about life, itself.

Great Plains History Is Brought To Life!
Well- it's about time!This book will let the world know that there muchmore to Kansas that those drab monochrome tones we see every time we watchthe beginning scenes of the Wizard of Oz!.While still being veryinformative, this book was a real pleasure to read.It's done in a"story style" that was certainly more interesting that the boringold history texts of my youth!The book really allows the reader to relateto the many fascinating historical figures as genuine people rather thanmere ghostly gray figures of days gone by.The whole book simply struck meas "being about real people for real people".The great original artworkand wonderful photographs and post cards were the "icing on the cake". Well done to the team that assembled this fine work!I hope its serveswell those curious to know about the Sunflower State for years to come!

Kansas schoolchildren are lucky to have this book!
I have read this book and I found it a great read! The art work is very good.The Kansas schoolchildren should feel special to be able to use such a informative book.The photos are super and there are so many of them! The end of the chapter postcards are really a neat idea.Thisbrings Kansas history to a level of interest for everyone.Wish my statehad one like it. ... Read more

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When Arthur Gochman filed a class-action suit in 1968 on behalf of San Antonio school children, he and his clients were directly challenging the inequality of education funding in Texas. They argued that quality education, not merely basic schooling, was a constitutional right, and a district court agreed. But the Supreme Court overruled that decision, signaling a halt to the idea that the Constitution contained a right to an equal education and marking an important transition from the Warren to the Burger Court.

Paul Sracic assesses the impact of this 5-4 decision. His is the first book to consider Rodriguez, tracing its progress from inception through appeal to provide a fascinating account of the legal maneuvering of the two sides-and a lesson in the limits of judicial solutions to discrimination in education.

Sracic brings together the varied strands in this complex case, while clarifying the positions on both sides of the conflict. Justice Lewis Powell argued that education was not a constitutionally protected right and that the Equal Protection Clause does not require absolute equality or precisely equal advantages, while dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall called the decision a retreat from America's commitment to equal opportunity that denigrated Brown v. Board of Education.

Sracic interviewed Demetrio Rodriguez, the parent whose name headlined the original suit, along with several students involved in the case. He also delved into Justice Powell's papers to show the influence of his prior experience championing local rather than state control over education and his fear of centralization's potential constraint on states' rights.

In the wake of Rodriguez, the issue of school funding acquired a much higher national profile, even as efforts to reform it struggled toward varied degrees of success. Sracic's very readable account unravels the complex legal doctrine that links this vitally important case to the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection--and argues that one cannot fully grasp the scope of that amendment without fully understanding Rodriguez.

This book is part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series. ... Read more

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Balanced and insightful.
The author does a great job of providing context surrounding the issue. Additionally, the text is not too academic so it is an easy read. A very thoughtful and accurate work. ... Read more