A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. Reinventing Public Education shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better able to meet standards of achievement and equity. Using public funds, local school boards would select private providers to operate individual schools under formal contracts specifying the type and quality of instruction. In a hands-on, concrete fashion, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the pros and cons of school contracting and how it would work in practice. They show how contracting would free local school boards from operating schools so they can focus on improving educational policy; how it would allow parents to choose the best school for their children; and, finally, how it would ensure that schools are held accountable and academic standards are met. While retaining a strong public role in education, contracting enables schools to be more imaginative, adaptable, and suited to the needs of children and families. In presenting an alternative vision for America’s schools, Reinventing Public Education is too important to be ignored.

Reinventing Public Education: How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools (Rand Research Study)

Education & Teaching

HILL, Paul

Guthrie, James W.

Pierce, Lawrence C.

Schools & Teaching

University of Chicago Press

A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. Reinventing Public Education shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better able to meet standards of achievement and equity. Using public funds, local school boards would select private providers to operate individual schools under formal contracts specifying the type and quality of instruction. In a hands-on, concrete fashion, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the pros and cons of school contracting and how it would work in practice. They show how contracting would free local school boards from operating schools so they can focus on improving educational policy; how it would allow parents to choose the best school for their children; and, finally, how it would ensure that schools are held accountable and academic standards are met. While retaining a strong public role in education, contracting enables schools to be more imaginative, adaptable, and suited to the needs of children and families. In presenting an alternative vision for America’s schools, Reinventing Public Education is too important to be ignored.

Hill, Paul Thomas

Approaching Photography: An Introduction to Understanding Photographs

"Fully updated and revised, this seminal book explains and illustrates what photographs are, how they were made and used in the past and, more particularly, what their place is in the creative arts and visual communications world of today. Paul Hill looks at photographs as modes of expression and explores the diversity of approaches taken when creating photographs and what these mean for a photographer's practice and purpose. It emphasises the importance of contextualisation to the understanding of the medium, diving into the ideas behind the images and how the camera transforms and influences how we see the world. With an impressive collection of 200 full colour images from professional practitioners and artists, it invites us to consider the foundations of photography's past and the digital revolution's impact on the creation and dissemination of photographs today. Essential reading for all students of photography, it is an invaluable guide for those who want to make a career in photography, covering most areas of photographic practice from photojournalism to fine art to personal essay"--

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Routledge

Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

Speech and audio processing has undergone a revolution in preceding decades that has accelerated in the last few years generating game-changing technologies such as truly successful speech recognition systems; a goal that had remained out of reach until very recently. This book gives the reader a comprehensive overview of such contemporary speech and audio processing techniques with an emphasis on practical implementations and illustrations using MATLAB code. Core concepts are firstly covered giving an introduction to the physics of audio and vibration together with their representations using complex numbers, Z transforms and frequency analysis transforms such as the FFT.\nLater chapters give a description of the human auditory system and the fundamentals of psychoacoustics. Insights, results, and analyses given in these chapters are subsequently used as the basis of understanding of the middle section of the book covering: wideband audio compression (MP3 audio etc.), speech recognition and speech coding.\nThe final chapter covers musical synthesis and applications describing methods such as (and giving MATLAB examples of) AM, FM and ring modulation techniques. This chapter gives a final example of the use of time-frequency modification to implement a so-called phase vocoder for time stretching (in MATLAB).\nFeatures\nA comprehensive overview of contemporary speech and audio processing techniques from perceptual and physical acoustic models to a thorough background in relevant digital signal processing techniques together with an exploration of speech and audio applications.\nA carefully paced progression of complexity of the described methods; building, in many cases, from first principles.\nSpeech and wideband audio coding together with a description of associated standardised codecs (e.g. MP3, AAC and GSM).\nSpeech recognition: Feature extraction (e.g. MFCC features), Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and deep learning techniques such as Long Short-Time Memory (LSTM) methods.\nBook and computer-based problems at the end of each chapter.\nContains numerous real-world examples backed up by many MATLAB functions and code.

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

CRC-Press

Dialogue with Photography / Interviews Conducted by Paul Hill Thomas Cooper

Dialogue With Photography

Cooper, Thomas

Biographies & Memoirs

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Paul Hill is one of the real Guildford Four. Since his release, in 1989, real life has taken a turn that no screenwriter could have dreamed up. In the best Hollywood rags-to-riches tradition, he's become a star and married a Kennedy... The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were the collective names of two groups of innocent people whose convictions in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice. The Guildford Four were convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the Maguire Seven were convicted of handling explosives found during the investigation into the bombings. Both groups' convictions were eventually declared "incorrect and unsatisfactory" and reversed in 1989 and 1991 respectively after they had served 15-16 years in prison. Not one policeman has been yet convicted of the torture, corruption and crimes against the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven.

Stolen Years: Before and After Guildford

DOUBLEDAY

Dialogue with Photography

These are the classic interviews with the men and women who shaped so much of twentieth century photography. Ansel Adams, Man Ray, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andrés Kertész, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, George Rodger, Robert Doisneau, Brett Weston, W.Eugene Smith, Imogen Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, among many others—recall their frustrations and successes and the effects of world events on their work.

Cooper, Thomas Joshua

Photography & Video

THAMES HUDSON LTD

Odessa Kearney struggles to redefine herself while she navigates the highways of the American West. Reborn as an over-the-road trucker but still grappling with a growing estrangement from her husband, she is brazenly taken while stopped along the road to Albuerquque. FBI Agent Sam Buscella is defied time and again by the supernatural power of the kidnapper who is slowly transforming his victim. Will Sam be able to set her free to do what she was born to do? Or in order to do it, will she have to die first? Follow this extraordinary woman's journey as it detours through abduction, murder, and an unimaginable form of corporate espionage played out in the shadowy realm of the paranormal.

Lanes End: A Journey Into the Paranormal

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Light In the Dark Paranormal Press

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is an important name in early photographic history. His pioneering locomotion studies of the 1870s and 1880s, which produced over 20,000 photographs, radically changed the way in which people understood animal and human movement. Less well known is his landscape work, a selection of which is presented in this book. 
Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin

Eadweard Muybridge (55)

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Five Great American Photographers Boxed Set: Matthew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Lewis Baltz (55s)

Johnson, Chris

SANTE, Luc

Rian, Jeff

Panzer, Mary

Bullock-Wilson, Barbara

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