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Kimora – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
There is an emerging paradigm in probation and parole in the United States. That new outlook encompasses a realization that these forms of supervision of offenders must meet the challenges of an increasing number of parolees and probationers. Recidivism continues to be the primary outcome measure for probation, as it is for all corrections…
Descriptors: Criminals, Delinquency, Correctional Rehabilitation, Recidivism
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Bushouse, Brenda K. – SUNY Press, 2009
The spectacular recent success of state-funded preschool education is revealed and explained in this absorbing study. A quiet revolution has been underway in American education policy since 1995, with forty-one states and the District of Columbia creating some form of state-funded preschool learning. Brenda K. Bushouse tells why it became…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Aid, Financial Support, Public Policy
Feinberg, Evan – Heritage Foundation, 2007
In this report, the author presents the results of the Heritage Foundation's 2007 parental choice survey of Members of Congress, conducted to determine the percentage of Members of Congress that practice private school choice. It was found that the percentage of Members of the 110th Congress who practice private school choice is disproportionate…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Government Employees, Racial Differences
Echelman, Shirley, Ed. – 1987
This document includes five reports originally presented at two meetings of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) held respecively in 1985 and 1987. In "Public Policy on LIbraries," Hector Wynter, a member of the Jamaican Parliament, describes the role of the legislator in the development of libraries in Jamaica.…
Descriptors: Administration, Foreign Countries, Institutional Advancement, International Organizations
Ornstein, Norman – 1984
This guide helps people understand where and how decisions on nuclear warfare are made in the United States government. The guide is organized into five main sections. "The Nature of the American Political System" covers the development of a republican form of democracy governed by checks and balances and designed so that power is shared…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Decision Making, Democracy
Bridgeland, William M.; Duane, Edward A. – 1990
Child care policymakers in Ontario and Michigan were compared in a study of provincial and state political processes and structures that affect child welfare. The two regions were selected due to similarities in their demographic characteristics, economic structures, and Anglo-American cultural commitments. The rationale for the study was that an…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Comparative Analysis, Day Care