Trying to get the nursery proper and all of blooming plants—bright colors, heady smells, early summer at its best—Mona almost walked past his table. It was one those fold-up numbers with foldout legs. Portable. Impermanent. The young man standing behind table dressed in a gray plaid shirt tucked into neatly ironed chinos, hair cut but not too short or neat.Maybe I should stop see what he's abou...

Introduction The term monster might have its roots in the Latin word monere (to warn), but it has since evolved to various symbolic meanings, from a terrifying mythical creature person of extreme cruelty. No matter flexibility use, is mostly meant be derogatory (Asma). As Gilmore puts it, monsters “embody all that dangerous and horrible human imagination” (1). However, may argued sometimes perf...

This focus of this paper is the relationship between communication and change in organizations, particularly change that is inspired by contemporary management “fashions.” In the past few years, knowledge management (KM) has become another buzzword (like TQM, reengineering, and e-commerce), a program that many organizations decide to implement, in part because it is fashionable, or the “thing t...

Nationwide, schools are implementing ambitious evaluation policies meant to improve education by holding teachers accountable and supporting their development. Seeking to learn whether and how evaluation policy could serve both purposes, we explored implementation of standards-based evaluation in six high-poverty schools of one urban district. Teachers widely said they wanted evaluation to prov...