Author: Switzerland) Low-Income Countries of the CIS: Prog
Publisher: Intl Monetary Fund
Keywords: countries, challenges, transition, progress, commonwealth, income, low, independent
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 158906321X
ISBN-13: 9781589063211

Author: Committee on the Study of Teacher Preparation Prog
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: national, research, council, policy, sound, teachers, building, evidence, preparing
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2010-06-25
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0309128056
ISBN-13: 9780309128056

Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abilities of those attracted to the field and their preparation. Yet there are many questions about how teachers are being prepared and how they ought to be prepared. Yet, teacher preparation is often treated as an afterthought in discussions of improving the public education system. Preparing Teachers addresses the issue of teacher preparation with specific attention to reading, mathematics, and science. The book evaluates the characteristics of the

Author: Switzerland) International Organization for Septua
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: septuagint, hebrew, text, reconsidered, studies, cognate, masoretic, bible, relationship, earliest, base
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-01
List price: $103.00
ISBN-10: 9004130497
ISBN-13: 9789004130494

The essays presented in this volume reflect the present state of research into the latest stages of the literary development of the Hebrew Bible and the earliest period of its textual history. They reassess the relationship between the Septuagint and the Hebrew text of the Bible, and shed new light on the literary history and transmission of biblical books between 300 B.C.E. and 100 C.E., a crucial period for the history of the biblical canon. The distinguished list of contributors includes Dieter Böhler (Germany), Pierre-Maurice Bogaert (Belgium), Johan Lust (Belgium), Natalio Fernández

Author: Switzerland) Arolla Conference on Algebraic Topolo
Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
Keywords: alps, contemporary, mathematics, swiss, theory, degustation, topologique, homotopy, une
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 2001-02
List price: $76.00
ISBN-10: 0821820788
ISBN-13: 9780821820780

Author: Panel on Retirement Income Modeling National Rese
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: data, research, models, needs, income, policies, retirement, assessing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-02-12
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0309056276
ISBN-13: 9780309056274

Provides a framework for retirement income modeling and summarizes the state of basic research knowledge in key areas. Recommends improvements in data sources and ways to facilitate interagency coordination. Paper.Book DescriptionThe retirement income security of older Americans and the cost of providing that security are increasingly the subject of major debate. This volume assesses what we know and recommends what we need to know to estimate the short- and long-term effects of policy alternatives. It details gaps in data and research and evaluates possible models to estimate the impact of po

Author: Panel on Retirement Income Modeling National Rese
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: behavior, retirement, knowledge, assessing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-07-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309055474
ISBN-13: 9780309055475

This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies. As the U.S. population ages, there is increasing uncertainty about the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare systems and the adequacy of private pensions to provide for people’s retirement needs. The volume covers such critical behaviors as workers’ decisions to retire, people’s choices of saving over consumption, and employers’ decisions about hiring older workers and providing pension and heal