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Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation

Public Investment in High-quality Prekindergarten

Research is increasingly demonstrating that the policy of investing in high-quality prekindergarten programs provides a wide array of significant benefits to children, families, and society as a whole, including job creation, inequality reduction, education and health care improvement, and reduced crime rates. In a new EPI book, Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation: Public Investment in High-Quality Prekindergarten, Robert G. Lynch examines the costs and benefits of both a targeted and a universal prekindergarten program and shows the positive impact of these programs on the economy, federal and state budgets, crime, and the educational achievement and earnings of children and adults.

In a new EPI book, Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation: Public Investment in High-Quality Prekindergarten, Robert G. Lynch examines the costs and benefits of both a targeted and a universal prekindergarten program and shows the ...

The Glorious Reward of Christian Fortitude: a Sermon Preach'd Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, ... at the Cathedral of St. Paul, on Monday the 31st of January, 1731. ... By Robert Warren, ...

Strategic Reward Management

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

This book is a summary in a readings format of what the author has learned about strategic-reward systems. The collected material draws heavily on empirical research to guide the author's conclusions. The book contains 26 articles, which are divided into 10 topical areas: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Pay and the Changing Business Context"; (3) "Pay in New Business Environments"; (4) "Strategic Pay Issues"; (5) "From Job Evaluation to Work Evaluation"; (6) "Team Pay"; (7) "Merit Pay Revisited"; (8) "Competency Pay"; (9) "Pay System Evaluation"; and (10) "Conclusions & The Future of Strategic Rewards." In order for strategic-reward programs to be effective, they must be carefully managed. The design, implementation, and evaluation issues raised in this book need to be carefully considered. Plans need to be administered in a manner consistent with their intent. Reward systems are doomed to fail when they are taken off the shelf and simply "administered" rather than developed specifically to the needs of the organization and then managed. Research on these programs clearly shows the positive impact of these plans on organizational effectiveness when they are implemented well. In addition, strategic-reward management holds great promise as a method of compensation for nontraditional reward environments, such as public sector, not-for-profit, unionized organizations. An index concludes this book. (Each chapter contains references.) (RT)

This book is a summary in a readings format of what the author has learned about strategic-reward systems.

Communication and Human Rights in Africa

Implications for Development

General Secretary, World Association for Christian Coomunication (WACC),
LONDON, United kingdom. Carlos Valle from Argentina is an ordained priest of
the Methodist Church. 2. Mr. Bernard Muna. Barrister and former President of the
Bar Association of Cameroon, DOUALA, Cameroon. 3 . Professor Paul A. V.
Ansah. Associate Professor and Director of the School of Communication Studies
. University of Ghana, LEGON, Ghana. 4. Dr. S. T. Kwame Boafo. Project
Coordinator ...

Human Communication Theory and Research

Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges

Human Communication Theory and Research introduces students to the growing body of theory and research in communication, demonstrating the integration between the communication efforts of interpersonal, organizational, and mediated settings. This second edition builds from the foundation of the original volume to demonstrate the rich array of theories, theoretical connections, and research findings that drive the communication discipline. Robert L. Heath and Jennings Bryant have added a chapter on new communication technologies and have increased depth throughout the volume, particularly in the areas of social meaning, critical theory and cultural studies, and organizational communication. The chapters herein are arranged to provide insight into the breadth of studies unique to communication, acknowledging along the way the contributions of researchers from psychology, political science, and sociology. Heath and Bryant chart developments and linkages within and between ways of looking at communication. The volume establishes an orientation for the social scientific study of communication, discussing principles of research, and outlining the requirements for the development and evaluation of theories. Appropriate for use in communication theory courses at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level, this text offers students insights to understanding the issues and possible answers to the question of what communication is in all forms and contexts.

raditional mass communication media such as television and radio are so much
a part of our lives that we sometimes fail to notice technological innovations that
are changing thenature of media as weknowthem. Oftentimes, the “early adopters
” amongus are theonlyones aware of these“newmedia,”these new
communication technologies. The rest of us simplylive life without consideringthe
implications of theseinnovations. We think that we have all we need in order to be
informed and ...

Fragments of a Lesson Plan

An informal, sometimes flip, scathingly provocative journal, Fragments of a Lesson Plan has emerged from Robert Belenky's personal and professional journey in search of ways to be useful to others as a psychologist-educator. His style is indicative of the art-exploratory, questioning, ambivalent at times. Belenky has pulled together tangential pieces and parts of his work as a psychologist, educator, and researcher. He presents the good with the bad in a collection from his personal journal, from reports, from tape-recorded interviews of the people he has dealt with-children, mothers, criminals, teachers, comp counselors, juvenile delinquents and colleagues. With frankness and honesty, he lets the reader in on the open disputes, the racial friction, the "ego trips", and the muddling-through which occur in all experimental projects-but never get reported. He presents real programs and real people from a close perspective. The result is a welcome antidote to the self-laudatory, jargon-filled memoranda and papers written for the heads of foundations and professional journals. His "ruminations" make indispensable reading for the would-be community mental health architect.

An informal, sometimes flip, scathingly provocative journal, Fragments of a Lesson Plan has emerged from Robert Belenky's personal and professional journey in search of ways to be useful to others as a psychologist-educator.