244 research outputs found
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Oral History Interview with John Roberts, December 15, 1987
No full textInterview with Dr. John Roberts, former superintendent of Richardson Independent School District from Grand Prairie, Texas, who worked through the district's desegregation. Roberts discusses how he came to Richardson ISD, desegregating, closures and reorganization of the district, issues with becoming fully integrated, developing the Pacesetter program, and thoughts on its impact
Oral History Interview with John Roberts, December 15, 1987
No full textInterview with Dr. John Roberts, former superintendent of Richardson Independent School District from Grand Prairie, Texas, who worked through the district's desegregation. Roberts discusses how he came to Richardson ISD, desegregating, closures and reorganization of the district, issues with becoming fully integrated, developing the Pacesetter program, and thoughts on its impact
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[Letter from Don R. Roberts to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, October 25, 1990]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter from Don R. Roberts, Superintendent of Forth Worth ISD, to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Roberts is writing to confirm Fort Worth ISD's commitment to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Their Site Coordinator, Beverly Fletcher, will contribute 15% of her time during the 1992 calendar year to activities related to staff development. Roberts end his letter by congratulating McCarter and Davis for their received grant from the Amon Carter foundation. Cc'd on the letter are, Nancy Timmons and Beverly Fletcher
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[Letter from Don R. Roberts to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, October 8, 1991]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter from Don R. Roberts, Superintendent of Fort Worth ISD, to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, in regards to FWISD's commitment to NTIEVA. Their Associate Director, Beverly Fletcher, will contribute at least 10% of her time during the 1991 - 1992 calendar year to activities related to staff development and implementation efforts. Along with thirteen art specialists devoting a substantial amount of time toward the DBAE program
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[Letter from Don R. Roberts to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, November 28, 1993]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter from Don R. Roberts, Superintendent of Fort Worth ISD, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to indicate FWISD commits to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, and their Associate Director Beverly Fletcher will contribute 10% of her time during the 1993 - 1994 calendar year to activities related to staff development. In addition, seventeen art teachers will devote substantial amount of time toward the DBAE program. Enclosed in the letter is a stipend worksheet for the faculty
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[Letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis to Don R. Roberts, March 26, 1991]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Don R. Roberts, Superintendent for Forth Worth ISD. In discussion of Roberts supportive efforts to implement discipline-art based education, DBAE in Fort Worth. NTIEVA invites Roberts to a reception and dinner on June 29th, to thank him and other retiring superintendents from their consortium districts
Information Systems Development (ISD): Past, Present, Future Trends
No full textBy information systems development we mean analysis, design and implementation of useful IT systems to support some kind of business in organisations. By IT systems we mean the use of hardware and software solutions to improve the business activities within and between organisations. The IT systems can be of a various character - for example we can create information systems in organisations by using bespoke (tailor-made) software, application packages or component-based solutions. We are here focusing on computer-based systems for developing and changing the situation in concrete business cases.Research on information systems development (ISD) has its roots back in the mid 1960ies. Scandinavian researchers have had a great influence on the evolution of information systems development as an academic field. Personally, I had the privilege of being a member of the Scandinavian school and tradition of information systems development (Professor Börje Langefors). My main experiences are based from working with the ISAC approach for requirements specifications (Professor Mats Lundeberg), the SIV method for purchasing standard application packages, the Business Modelling framework for studying method combinations and the ISD perspectives on multimedia development. After practicing in the ISD area for more than 30 years, as both a researcher/teacher (for the academia) and an advisor/counselor (to the industry), I feel a great need to make some reflections on my findings.This paper will focus on important trends in the area of Information Systems Development (ISD) from three time perspectives: the past (yesterday), the present (today) and the future (tomorrow) situation. The method for comparison is driven from ten important and relevant dimensions: philosophical approach, modelling area, view of model aspects, systems scope, methodology package, actor orientation, IT perspective, subject matter focus, development strategy and range of work. My review is of course strongly biased of how I perceive the trends in our ISD field. The research work is a continuation of two earlier studies by the author on evolution of ISD methodologies and change work with ISD in organisations. The paper will follow the ten dimensions for comparison of trends in the ISD field. For each dimension the three time perspectives are presented with a focused area for the past, present and future trends respectively.The article has also been presented att five research semminars in Israel during 2007/2008 at the following universities: - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), in Beer-Sheva- The University of Haifa- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa- Tel-Aviv University (TAU)</p
Agriculture and the transition to the market
No full textAgricultural sectors in Eastern and Central Europe are large so that changes in producer prices, farm employment, and land ownership affect substantial numbers of people. In the past, food in the region was politicized. For decades, governments of Eastern European countries and the USSR offered their citizens stable, subsidized food prices and a steadily improving diet in an effort to demonstrate the superiority of communism over capitalism. During the transition, the context has changed, but food remains politicized. Many consumers in the region are ill-prepared to pay the real costs of food, which are quite high. The task of reducing those costs will be difficult, involving restructuring of farms and fostering competition in processing and distribution. Management of the agricultural transition will affect the political sustainability of the process and influence agriculture's contribution to the growth of emerging market economies. Although the agricultural sector of Eastern and Central Europe is large, Soviet agriculture dwarfs it in its impact on the region and the world. A positive program to stop the decline in Soviet agriculture could contribute to economic growth and political stability. Failure to remedy the fundamental flaws in Soviet agriculture will speed the country's slide into poverty and ethnic turmoil - and undermine the efforts of Central and Eastern Europeans to succeed.Access to Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Markets and Market Access
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[Letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis to Don R. Roberts, October 9, 1990]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Don R. Roberts, Superintendent of Fort Worth ISD. In regards to good news that the Amon Carter Foundation has granted NTIEVA $150,000 for the next three years of their program. McCarter and Davis are thrilled as this amount will go a long way towards meeting their five year matching requirement for the Getty grant. It also insure the ongoing work of the institute. Included in the letter are details about how the Getty grant will release their pay increments during the years. McCarter and Davis write that they need some materials from Roberts, discussing some points they've enclosed in the letter, in order to secure the grant with the Getty Center
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