Book Review: Women,Philanthropy, and Civil Society,by Kathleen D. McCarthy (ed.). Indiana University Press,Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2001

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Book Review Jerome B. Schneewind (ed.), Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy,Indiana University Press,Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1996. xvi + 230 pp.

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Book Review: Private Charity and Public Inquiry: A History of the Filer and Peterson Commissions,by Eleanor L. Brilliant. Indiana University Press,Bloomington, IN 2000

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Book Review: Charles T. Clotfelter and Thomas Ehrlich (eds.), Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in a Changing America,Indiana University Press,Bloomington, 1999, 544 pp., $24.95 (paperback)

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Book Review: Community and Civil Society,by Ferdinand Tonnies. Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 2001

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Twenty-first century learning in school systems: the case of the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township, Indianapolis, Indiana

To empower students with skills such as information and technological literacy, global awareness and cultural competence, self-direction, and sound reasoning, teachers must master these skills themselves. This chapter examines how the Digital Age Literacy Initiative of the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township in Indianapolis, Indiana, which is funded by the Lilly Endowment, incorporated twenty-first century learning through a systemic approach involving teacher training and the use of data. The authors explain the district's content, process, and context goals toward accomplishing its mission of empowering students with the necessary twenty-first century skills to succeed in the digital age. The district places a strong emphasis on professional development for teachers. To support the necessary teacher learning and therefore sustain the work of the initiative, the district has adopted action research, self-assessment, and an online professional development network. To support teachers in implementing new strategies, master teachers serve as digital age literacy coaches. The chapter discusses the initiative's focus on evidence of progress. Through a partnership with the Metiri Group of California, the district has built a range of assessments including online inventories and twenty-first century skill rubrics. For example, the Mankato Survey collected teacher and student data around access, ability, and use of technology in the classroom in 2001 and then in 2004. This research showed significant gains in some technologies across all grade levels and consistent gains in nearly all technologies for middle and high school students. As it moves into the next phase of implementing the Digital Age Literacy Initiative, the district embraces the systemic shifts in school culture necessary to institutionalize twenty-first century learning.     

Book Review: Review of Henry Hansmann,The Ownership of Enterprise,Boston and London: Harvard University Press, 1996

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Book Review: Civil Society: Old Images,New Visions,by John Keane. Stanford University Press,Stanford, 1998

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Book Review: Civil Society: History and Possibilities,by Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.). Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 2001

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Book Review: Global Civil Society 2001, by Helmut Anheier,Marlies Glasius,and Mary Kaldor. Oxford University Press,Oxford, 2001

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