Perkins Observatory

9.2.4 Sports E59 Perkins

A stumbling point for many learning to fly fish is being able to fly cast well enough to ‘present’ a fly to a feeding fish. Even among more skilled fly fishers, learning to fly cast better is often a bottleneck towards advancement in the sport. Fly casting instruction today relies on the visual inspection of the fly casting stroke and the resulting ‘loop’ of fly line. These qualitative visual c...

Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Elisha Perkins and His Metallic Tractors

Hocus! pocus! up and down! Draw the white right from the crown! Hocus! pocus! at a loss! Draw the brazen rod across! Hocus! pocus! down and up! Draw them both from foot to top! Wooden nutmegs and counterfeit money are not the only frauds that have had their origin in Connecticut. To the members of the medical profession Perkins' Metallic Tractors are of the most interest. immediately began the ...

Clarify the Interrelationships among Perkins Ii Mandates and the Coordination of Perkins Ii Initiatives

This research suggests specific actions federal policymakers should take to improve the implementation of Perkins II measures and standards. Although our case studies were limited to four states, both our informal conversations with other vocational educators and previous research on the implementation of Perkins II measures and standards suggest that these concerns are widespread enough to war...

Perkins IV : An Interview with Kimberly Green

MS. GREEN: Our organization was founded back in the early 1900s, when the federal government first started investing in career and technical education, as a means to interface with each state’s contact person in [what was then called] vocational education. Over time, our organization has grown, but we’ve always maintained that focus of serving states. Our core membership is the state directors ...