There is a strong and optimistic commitment by all staff to the school improvement strategy and a clear belief that further improvement is possible. Teachers take responsibility for the changes in their practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets. The school has developed an agenda for ...

Publicly traded corporations rarely use the nearly absolute freedom afforded them to draft charters that deviate from the default terms of state corporation law. Conventional explanations for this phenomenon are unconvincing. A more promising explanation lies in the lack of any feasible amendment mechanism that will assure efficient adaptation of charter terms as changing circumstances dictate ...

During the summer of 1897 the inhabitants of the coastal towns of North Queensland, Australia suffered their fourth consecutive annual visitation of dengue fever. The unusual virulence of this 1897 epidemic engaged the concern of Dr. F. E. Hare of Charters Towers, Queensland, who undertook to write a general description of the outbreak by polling physicians practicing in the region.' From 19 co...

whole matter is dealt with in full. From "it I reproduce the following :? It ia probably known to most St. Thomas's men past and present that for some years St. Thomas's Hospital has been using an heraldic device supposed to be the arms of the hospital. Eighteen months ago the writer being unable to find any authority for this device, he and the Secretary (G. Q. Roberts, C.B.E., M.A.) spent som...

In this article, we present an institutionalist organizational perspective on formal gatekeeping, arguing along two fronts: First, identifying gatekeepers provides useful analytic devices for learning about the vocabularies of structure in an organization. Second, successfully managing gatekeepers requires that one understands the vocabularies of structure in use in an organization. We ground o...

Abstract This paper explores the potential of legal documents for study sociology Old English. It gives a rationale use genres, or charters, and introduces research databases tools that may elucidate interconnections between practitioners English their linguistic practices. A series short case studies on wills illustrates what genres tell us about correlation variation, supralocalisation, chang...