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Allie Bidwell, an education reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, wrote an article about The Politics of Common Core where she talks about why states are retreating from the Common Core. She mentions in her article a quote from Rick Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, “"People felt like they hadn 't been told about it," says the American Enterprise Institute 's Hess. "To people who were skeptical, they thought, 'How did you sneak this past everybody? '(Bidwell)." Hess and Bidwell were referring to the Common Core set in place by Obama and his administration. States were told that if they adopted the career and college ready standards they would be eligible to receive grants from the government’s Race to the Top funding. Hess argued on behalf of the states that they were not informed of what the Common Core would entail when they adopted the policy and were focused on the idea of being promised money. States that did not adopt the policy and created their own were eligible to apply for the funding, but ended up being turned down. Indiana…

Conversely, we are near the bottom in one specific classification that can lead to the demise of a country that is thought to be flowing with amber waves of grain and plotted with purple mountains as it was put by Katharine Lee Bates in 1913. According to the Brookings Institute, in a report completed by Ron Haskins, Richard Merman, and Isabel Sawhill, from October 2012, the literacy rates of students in the United States are far lower than any other industrialized country in the world. The…

Prompt: Construct and develop your commentary using the assigned reading provided to you on authored by Dr. Michael Greve. “The AEI Federalism Project” is a program established by the American Enterprise Institute to provide a forum for the discussion of American Federalism. Your work should be an original interpretation of the content of the article and will address and answer the following: Develop an explanation for the principle of federalism, Address the concept of competitive federalism,…

What do people think about when they hear the word politics? To further that, what do they think of when they hear the term polarization? Congress is in a constant battle between parties, and this, in turn, keeps us in an almost constant state of gridlock. Susan Page, Jim Douglas, Brian Resnick, and Norman Ornstein have all written articles explaining political polarization, civil discourse, or the solutions to these problems. In Susan Page’s article “Divided We Now Stand,” she mainly focuses on…

As the company branched out and expanded to different states so Jack changed the name in 1969 to Enterprise Leasing Company, in honor of the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier upon which he served in the Navy. The energy crises of the 1970s hindered Enterprise Leasing Company’s expansion but accelerated growth occurred in the 1980s even though Hertz and National entered the hometown market. According to Tucker and Salamie (2005), “a key ingredient to Enterprises success was the innovative…

Interface Management securely opens and managed enterprise data and applications that are need to fill a request. It offers a range of functionalities, such as; transforming data to fill the request, filtering data to collect the right information, combining different sets of data stored in different enterprise systems, transporting the data by translating the protocols between the request and the database, controlling traffic amongst multiple request from multiple users, and overall routing the…

up resentment and the admission of his affair, sits in his car at a stoplight trying to decide if he should leave – potentially with his paramour, Margot – or stay and raise his son, all while knowing life will never be the same. 1996 is also not a Hollywood standard film of affairs and suburbia – it’s not stock drama. There’s plenty of uncommon plot elements in place that shift it from being a run of the mill Hollywood tale of infidelity, which bodes well with Fincher who usually differs with…

1: (a) Type of social intervention: The Salaam Wanita project employs the Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) model, making use of a product as the choice social intervention. Salaam Wanita provides employment for the disadvantaged women by training them to weave baskets, and then paying them at least half of the revenue from the selling of the baskets. (b) Value Propositions: Firstly, for the social value proposition, Salaam Wanita 's beneficiaries, who are the disadvantaged women, can…

Mutual Aid organizations provide services that will increase the well-being of citizens, similar to a social enterprise organization such as the YMCA, members pay for the service, through paying an agreed upon amount each pay period. “Civil society organizations can be divided into nonprofit mutual associations that serve a membership and organizations that serve the public. Within nonprofit mutual associations, two broad groupings can be created: those that help the economy and those that are…

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