Author: Rosalind Williams
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: change, technological, confronts, historian, retooling
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0262731630
ISBN-13: 9780262731638

When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family’s farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis’s granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather’s and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life. Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT fro

Author: Wana L. Duhart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Keywords: schools, public, retooling, village
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1578866359
ISBN-13: 9781578866359

A Call to the Village is a roadmap for developing collaborative strategies that integrate the knowledge, ideas, expertise, resources, networks, and systems of the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors in the transformation of elementary and secondary schools. By taking what works from the organizational and strategic coherence of the private sector, the spiritual and moral stewardship of the religious sector, the local and social service focuses of the nonprofit sector, and the public sector’s mandate to provide equitable public goods, Wana L. Duhart offers a comprehensive an

Authors:Richard M. Mcgahey, Jennifer S. Vey, Richard M. Mcga
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: industrial, areas, american, assembly, older, america, growth, building, century, economy, retooling
Number of Pages: 437
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0815755562
ISBN-13: 9780815755562

Slow job growth, declining home values, a diminishing tax base, and concentrated poverty are but a few of the growing obstacles for well-established but struggling cities. Challenged by decades of globalization, technological change, and dramatic demographic shifts away from the urban core, these former industrial powerhouses—particularly in the Northeast and Midwest—have been eclipsed by burgeoning American cities with a viable niche in the new economy. In Retooling for Growth, experts present new frameworks, cutting-edge analysis, and innovative policy solutions through which the nat

Author: Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: care, workforce, health, building, aging, america, retooling
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-08-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0309115876
ISBN-13: 9780309115872

As the first of the nation’s 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recru

Author: Committee on Bridging Design and ManufacturingNat
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: materials, production, design, bridging, manufacturing, retooling
Number of Pages: 123
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 0309092663
ISBN-13: 9780309092661

As the Department of Defense continues development of the future warrior system, the difficulty of moving rapidly from design to manufacturing for complex technologies is becoming a major concern. In particular, there are communication gaps between design and manufacturing that hinder rapid development of new products important for these future military developments. To help address those concerns, DOD asked the NRC to develop a framework for ’bridging’ these gaps through data management, modeling, and simulation. This report presents the results of this study. It provides a framew