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Letter from Sam Sims, Pontiac, Illinois, to Clara P. Sims, Elgin, Illinois, May 26, 1909
No full textOne typewritten letter from Sam Sims of Pontiac, Illinois, to his wife Clara, who is away on a visit in Elgin, Illinois. He wrote with updates of various friends and family members
Sam Sims Letter, MSS.3256
No full textAbstract: One typewritten letter from Sam Sims of Pontiac, Illinois, to his wife Clara, who is away on a visit in Elgin, Illinois. He wrote with updates of various friends and family members.Scope and Content Note: Contains one typewritten letter from Sam Sims to his wife Clara, who was away from home on a visit. He told her the latest news regarding an aunt's illness and various happenings at work and in town.Biographical/Historical Note: Sam Sims lived in Pontiac, Illinois, with his wife, Clara. He worked in insurance, loans, and real estate
Back to the future with academy chain accountability?
No full textIn this article, Sam Sims argues that the Department for Education’s new performance ranking of local authorities and academy chains is effectively meaningless and therefore not very useful. Rather than repeating the mistakes of past efforts to identify effective education providers, we should focus on evaluating policies
Electing mayors for more English cities would increase local democratic accountability and widen political participation. But the government must grant them real power and freedom
Get PDFEngland’s biggest cities will soon vote on whether or not they want to be run by directly elected mayors. The Institute for Government’s Sam Sims argues that mayoral governance offers significant benefits, but the centre must give mayors real power if the government is to achieve its decentralisation ambition
Letter from Sam Houston to Indian agent
No full textLetter with orders from Sam Houston to Charles Sims instructing him to proceed to various Indian tribes to assure them that they will have peace. The text reads:
Nacogdoches, Texas
12th Aug, 1838
to Charles Sims,
Sir,
You will proceed to the various Tribes of Indians, and assure them them [sic], that no harm is in=tended towards them, but that the Treaty shall be [...] with them, and that they shall have their homes and their lands, and Peace will be kept with them; Tell them my words shall not perish= Let them remain at peace! It is said that whitemen [sic] intend to march against the Indians this is false! no such thing has even been thought of. Bad men may say so, but good men will not! Good men will [...].
Your Salary will be at the rate of five dollas a day.
I am [...]
Sam Houston
Testing for sequential bias in school inspections
No full textInspectors are tasked with judging the quality of provision based on visits to schools. They conduct these inspections sequentially, completing one before moving on to the next. However, empirical research in a range of settings outside education suggest that prior judgements in a sequence can influence subsequent judgements, despite being logically irrelevant. We investigate whether school inspectors in England display such sequential bias by testing whether they judge similar schools differently, depending on the judgements they reached in prior inspections. We find only limited evidence of sequential bias in primary school inspections. In particular, an inspector reaching an ‘Inadequate’ judgement in their previous inspection is associated with a 42% reduction in the odds of reaching another ‘Inadequate’ judgement in their next inspection. Only around 5% of inspection judgements result in an ‘Inadequate’ and we do not find consistent evidence of sequential bias at other grades, meaning this bias only affects a small minority of judgements. We also do not find the same results for secondary schools, albeit in a much smaller sample
[Mr. and Mrs. Sims McCutchan Jr. at Sam Houston Elementary School May Fete, 1950]
No full textPhotograph of Sims McCutchan, Jr. and his wife Johnnie seated at a school fair booth, perhaps playing bingo. The structure of the temporary booth and stools are clearly visible. The photograph was taken in the evening. Mrs. McCutchan's purse sits on the counter next to her. Bare light bulbs provide light. Inscription on back: "1950, Sam Houston Elementary School May Fete, Marshall, Texas.
The Teacher Gap
No full textTeachers are the most important determinant of the quality of schools. We should be doing everything we can to help them get better.In recent years, however, a cocktail of box-ticking demands, ceaseless curriculum reform, disruptive reorganisations and an audit culture that requires teachers to document their every move, have left the profession deskilled and demoralised. Instead of rolling out the red carpet for teachers, we have been pulling it from under their feet.The result is predictable: there is now a cavernous gap between the quantity and quality of teachers we need, and the reality in our schools.In this book, Rebecca Allen and Sam Sims draw on the latest research from economics, psychology and education to explain where the gap came from and how we can close it again. Including interviews with current and former teachers, as well as end-of-chapter practical guidance for schools, The Teacher Gap sets out how we can better recruit, train and retain the next generation of teachers.At the heart of the book is a simple message: we need to give teachers a career worth having
Visualisation of amphetamine contamination in fingerprints using tof-sims technique
No full textTime-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was applied to detect traces of amphetamine on fingerprints. In the present study, three different lift tapes and latent powder fingerprints were tested. The obtained results show that it is possible to identify traces of a drug as well as its distribution over the tested fingerprint after its transfer from the primary base onto an adhesive lifter (secondary base). Moreover, images obtained by the TOF-SIMS technique enable the observation of very small areas of the analysed fingerprint as well as the identification of micro-objects (residues of a contaminant) that were left on the fingerprint. The use of the black latent fingerprint powder did not interfere with the TOF-SIMS analysis, which makes it possible to effectively use this technique to study the traces of substances on the revealed fingerprints.ChemE/Advanced Soft Matte
General Sam S. Walker,VMI Superintendent, in 1981
No full textOfficial portrait of General Sam Sims Walker (Class of 1945), VMI's eleventh Superintendent. He served from 1981-1988
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