"children transferring to secondary school at the age of 12 has now been almost completely abandoned. Male teachers remain a small minority in primaries. A new review of primary education in England began on 2 October 2006 under the leadership of Professor Robin Alexander under the title The Primary Review. The official records of the Plowden committee are held in the records created or inherited by the Department of Education and Science, and of related bodies The National Archives. The personal papers of Bridget Horatia Plowden, including records regarding the Plowden Report are held in the Archives of the Institute"
"Crittenden Report The Crittenden Report was the outcome of a 1957 investigation on the part of a United States Navy Board of Inquiry, officially known as the Board Appointed to Prepare and Submit Recommendations to the Secretary of the Navy for the Revision of Policies, Procedures and Directives Dealing With Homosexuals. Navy Captain S.H. Crittenden, Jr., chaired the Board. The Board evaluated Navy policies dealing with homosexual personnel that were based in part on the assertions made in the December 1950 final report of the Investigations Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Expenditure in Executive Departments, which said that all"
"the Plowden Committee which was investigating the education of primary children in the UK and the transition to secondary school, commissioned a follow-up report on the children from the NCDS. This follow-up survey was led by Mia Kellmer Pringle and attempts were made to trace all members of this birth generational cohort. The survey took place in 1965 and results were included in the Plowden report ""Children and their Primary Schools"" in 1967. By 2016 the NCDS has been conducted in nine different sweeps to get information concerning the physical, educational and social development of the people from the initial"
"the Plowden Report. She was at various times a member of Dorset Education Committee, the Independent Television Authority, the councils of the National Youth Orchestra and the Outward Bound Trust, the Church Missionary Society, where as its first woman president she brought it to espouse the 1980 Brandt Report on bridging the North-South divide, and Christian Aid, where she was also chairman in 1978–83. She joined the council of the Royal Society of Arts in 1975 and chaired it in 1979–81. She was a governor of Godolphin School, Salisbury, from 1975-86. Reader Harris was an active member of the Church"
"abuse, restriction of free speech, and lack of core classes, in a report entitled, ""Education or Reputation?"" The Manhattan Report was later dubbed ""The Bowdoin Project"" due to widespread media coverage, and has produced extended analysis of the school's academic and social program. The Bowdoin Project has led to an extension, by the National Association of Scholars, of its report by publishing articles with respect to: Bowdoin Project The Bowdoin Project (officially entitled What does Bowdoin Teach? How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students) was an educational publication critiquing the educational practices of Brunswick-based liberal arts college Bowdoin College."
"Hawaiians, as well as for the growing Hawaiian sovereignty movement who seek self-government similar to that of Native Americans and Alaskan peoples. Blount Report The Blount Report is the popular name given to the part of the 1893 United States House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee Report regarding the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The report was conducted by U.S. Commissioner James H. Blount, appointed by U.S. President Grover Cleveland to investigate the events surrounding the January 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Blount Report ""first provided evidence that officially identified the United States' complicity in the"
"program's nominal focus was on foreign nationals, the disclosures also revealed the large-scale surveillance of communications by United States citizens. These leaks were largely the work of Edward Snowden, a Booz Allen Hamilton employee with access to a wide range of top secret documents. Publications of the documents by ""The Washington Post"" and ""The Guardian"" began in June 2013. On January 23, 2014, the board released its report, recommending the US end bulk data collection. Instead federal agencies would be able to obtain phone and other records under court orders in cases containing an individualized suspicion of wrongdoing. But there"
"William Julius Lowthian Plowden William Julius Lowthian Plowden (1935 – 26 June 2010) was a British political science academic and government advisor. Plowden's parents were both public servants and he was educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge, where he took his doctorate. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship at the University of California in Berkeley. On his return he was briefly a staff writer for The Economist, then joined the Board of Trade and was later appointed as lecturer on government at the London School of Economics. He joined the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS), where he wrote a"
"a thorough, independent review of decisions that run counter to our laws and treaties, we cannot ensure that these same mistakes are not repeated. Such a commission must have bipartisan support to be able to truly get to the bottom of these issues with objectivity and credibility."" Shortly after the report was released, former NSA Director Michael Hayden, who designed and implemented the program in 2001, told the Associated Press that he personally briefed key members of congress on the program. He maintained that the members were kept well-informed, and was distressed by suggestions that they were not. Hayden said"
"Blount Report The Blount Report is the popular name given to the part of the 1893 United States House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee Report regarding the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The report was conducted by U.S. Commissioner James H. Blount, appointed by U.S. President Grover Cleveland to investigate the events surrounding the January 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Blount Report ""first provided evidence that officially identified the United States' complicity in the lawless overthrow of the lawful, peaceful government of Hawaii."" Blount concluded that U.S. Minister to Hawaii John L. Stevens had carried out"
"a program where the government collects the telephone records of millions of law-abiding Americans 'fundamentally shifts the balance of power between the state and its citizens.' The board goes on to say that with the government's 'powers of compulsion and criminal prosecution,' collection of data on its own citizens 'poses unique threats to privacy,' and is expected to have a 'chilling effect on the free exercise of speech and association.'"" Asked by Patrick Mächler to what extent the report will have an impact, Edward Snowden stated: I don’t see how Congress could ignore it, as it makes it clear there"
"demonstrated with increasing frequency."" (Gibson, p. 357) The Crittenden Report remained secret until 1976. Navy officials claimed they had no record of studies of homosexuality, but attorneys learned of its existence and obtained it through a Freedom of Information Act request. In September 1981, the Navy was still unable to fulfill a request for the Report's supporting documentation, specifically parts 2 and 3 of the Report, which contain ""copies of directives and memoranda regarding homosexual policies, verbatim testimony from Navy officials on the evolution of the World War II wartime antigay policies, and an unidentified 'confidential supplement'."" Crittenden Report The"
"Blount Report to be mistaken on many of the facts reported. Some of the criticisms of the Blount Report included the fact that it was done in secrecy, with no opportunity for cross-examination of witnesses and no witnesses placed under oath. Opponents of the Apology Resolution point to this official repudiation of the Blount Report as sufficient reason to dismiss any conclusions based on it. Despite being staunchly in favor of reinstating the monarchy, President Grover Cleveland also reversed himself upon receipt of the Morgan Report, refusing requests from the queen for further aid in her restoration, and acknowledging both"
"of the government's intelligence agencies ""are in complete agreement that sex perverts in Government constitute security risks."" Senator Clyde Hoey, Democrat of North Carolina, chaired the subcommittee that produced the report, sometimes known as the Hoey Report or the Hoey Investigation. The Crittenden Report, by contrast, concluded that there was ""no sound basis for the belief that homosexuals posed a security risk"" and criticized the Hoey Report: ""No intelligence agency, as far as can be learned, adduced any factual data before that committee with which to support these opinions"" and said that ""the concept that homosexuals necessarily pose a security"
"narrated the State Department's inaction and in some instances active opposition to the release of funds for the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, and condemned immigration policies that closed American doors to Jewish refugees from countries then engaged in their systematic slaughter. The catalyst for the Report was an incident involving 70,000 Jews whose evacuation from Romania could have been procured with a $170,000 bribe. The Foreign Funds Control unit of the Treasury, which was within Paul's jurisdiction, authorized the payment of the funds, the release of which both the President and Secretary of State Cordell Hull supported. From mid-July 1943,"
"said this was due to cost and legal exposure for the companies involved, and that it was not an ""easy out"". Sen. Ron Wyden, a senior member of the intelligence committee and long-time critic of the programs, released a statement in reaction to the report. Said Wyden: ""The privacy board's findings closely mirror many of the criticisms made by surveillance reform advocates. The bulk collection program was built on a murky legal foundation that raises many constitutional questions and has been proven to be an ineffective tool for collecting unique intelligence information. Moreover, as the board wrote in its report,"
"""The Washington Post,"" which ran three separate pieces regarding the incident. In April 2013, the college was at the center of National Association of Scholars's report entitled, ""What Does Bowdoin Teach? How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students."" The report was later dubbed, ""The Bowdoin Project"" due to widespread media coverage. The report was a 359-page report that was financed at a cost of $100,000. The assessment criticized and denounced, in thorough detail, the college's academic program, sexual atmosphere, treatment of women and minorities, student and faculty diversity, drug and alcohol issues, student safety, and hazing, among twenty-six other"
"the fallout from Snowden's disclosures. The report also said that ""the public narrative popularized by Snowden and his allies is rife with falsehoods, exaggerations, and crucial omissions."" The report was denounced by ""Washington Post"" reporter Barton Gellman, who called it ""aggressively dishonest"" and ""contemptuous of fact."" In August 2013, President Obama said that he had called for a review of U.S. surveillance activities before Snowden had begun revealing details of the NSA's operations, and announced that he was directing DNI James Clapper ""to establish a review group on intelligence and communications technologies."" In December, the task force issued 46 recommendations"
"provided the space to cope with the new cohort of ""ROSLA students"". The ROSLA Buildings were delivered to schools in self assembly packs and were not intended to stand long-term, though some have proven to have stood much longer than was initially planned and were still in use in the 2010s. The 1967 Plowden Report advocated a more child-centred approach to primary education, and also supported the introduction of middle schools. While many of the report's recommendations were never implemented, primary schools began to move away from rote learning in the late 1960s and 1970s. High technology industry (Aerospace, Nuclear,"
"a global economy. It insisted that parents had a right to annual reports and recommended objective testing of attainment. Lady Plowden became a governor and vice-chairman of the BBC in 1970. She left the post in 1975 to take up the chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, where she helped to establish a fourth UK television service and breakfast television. After stepping down as IBA chair in 1980 Lady Plowden went on to serve on the boards of governors for several schools, as well as serving as president of the National Marriage Guidance Council (later Relate) from 1983 to 1993."
"abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens."" A brief was prepared for Joe Biden, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the ""Biden Report"". Bork later said in his best-selling book ""The Tempting of America"" that the report ""so thoroughly misrepresented a plain record that it easily qualifies as world class in the"
"a Democrat opposed to American expansion, sent an investigator who wrote the Blount Report. The report concluded that Minister Stevens had manipulated and orchestrated the revolt. Cleveland decided that the United States should restore the Queen; he asked for Dole's resignation; however, Dole ignored the request. The U.S. Senate held hearings regarding another report called the Morgan Report, which undermined the Blount Report's claims. Public opinion in the United States favored annexation. In May 1894 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution opposing restoration of the Queen, opposing intrusion into the affairs of the Dole government, and opposing American action"
"embarrassing governments. In 1999, Transparency International began publishing the Bribe Payers Index (BPI) which ranked nations according to the prevalence that a country's multinational corporations would offer bribes. At its annual meeting in November 2013 in Berlin, Transparency International's national chapters from Germany and Ireland proposed a resolution calling for the ""end of the prosecution of Edward J. Snowden... He should be recognized as a whistleblower for his help to reveal the over-reaching and unlawful surveillance by secret services... He symbolizes the courage of numerous other whistleblowers around the world."" The final resolution that was passed by the plenary excluded"
"shot heard around the academic world"", by ""The Wall Street Journal"". Yale University's professor of Political Science, Peter Berkowitz, wrote an article entitled ""The Sad State of Liberal Education at Bowdoin"", reiterating the statements of Klingenstein. In April 2013, the college was at the center of an educational study entitled, ""What Does Bowdoin Teach? How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students"". The report was later dubbed ""The Bowdoin Project"" due to widespread media coverage. Prompted by the National Association of Scholars, it was a 359-page report that was financed at a cost of $100,000. The assessment criticized and denounced,"
"from countries then engaged in their systematic slaughter. The catalyst for the ""Report"" was an incident involving 70,000 Jews whose evacuation from Romania could have been procured with a $170,000 bribe. The Foreign Funds Control unit of the Treasury, which was within Paul's jurisdiction, authorized the payment of the funds, the release of which both the President and Secretary of State Cordell Hull supported. From mid-July 1943, when the proposal was made and Treasury approved, through December 1943, a combination of the State Department's bureaucracy and the British Ministry of Economic Warfare interposed various obstacles. The ""Report"" was the product"
"more in campaign contributions from defense contractors than those who voted in favor. In September 2013, Senators Mark Udall, Richard Blumenthal, Rand Paul and Ron Wyden introduced a ""sweeping surveillance reform"" proposal. Called the most comprehensive proposal to date, the ""Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act"" seeks to end the bulk collection of communication records made legal in section 215 of the Patriot Act and to reign in other ""electronic eavesdropping programs"". Wyden told ""The Guardian"" the Snowden disclosures have ""caused a sea change in the way the public views the surveillance system"". The draft bill is a blend of"
"committee produced the ""Haldane Report"". The report suggested that research required by government departments could be separated into that required by specific departments and that which was more general. It recommended that departments should oversee the specific research but the general research should be under the control of autonomous Research Councils, which would be free from political and administrative pressures that might discourage research in certain areas. The principle of the autonomy of the research councils is now referred to as the Haldane Principle. The first research council to be created as a result of the Haldane Report was the"
"the Morgan Report, which contradicted Blount's findings and found the overthrow was a completely internal affair. Cleveland dropped all talk of reinstating the Queen, and went on to recognize and maintain diplomatic relations with the new Republic of Hawaii. Closer to home, Cleveland adopted a broad interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine that not only prohibited new European colonies, but also declared an American national interest in any matter of substance within the hemisphere. When Britain and Venezuela disagreed over the boundary between Venezuela and the colony of British Guiana, Cleveland and Secretary of State Richard Olney protested. British Prime Minister"
"Charles Plowden Charles Plowden (born at Plowden Hall, Shropshire, 1743; died at Jougne, Doubs, France, 13 June 1821) was an English Jesuit priest, teacher, writer and administrator. He was descended from Edmund Plowden, in a Catholic family. Educated at the College of St Omer, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1759, and was ordained priest, at Rome, in 1770. At the suppression of the Society, in 1773, he was minister of the College of Bruges: the Austro-Belgic government, in its execution of the decree of suppression, kept him imprisoned for some months after the closing of the college. He"
"Wolfenden report The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee) was published in the United Kingdom on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Michael Pitt-Rivers, and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences. Under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, any homosexual activity between males was illegal. After the Second World War there had been an increase in arrests and prosecutions, and by the end of 1954, in England and Wales, there were 1,069"
"Wolfenden report The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee) was published in the United Kingdom on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Michael Pitt-Rivers, and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences. Under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, any homosexual activity between males was illegal. After the Second World War there had been an increase in arrests and prosecutions, and by the end of 1954, in England and Wales, there were 1,069"
"The 1957 Crittenden Report of the United States Navy Board of Inquiry concluded that there was ""no sound basis for the belief that homosexuals posed a security risk"" and criticized the prior Hoey Report: ""No intelligence agency, as far as can be learned, adduced any factual data before that committee with which to support these opinions"" and said that ""the concept that homosexuals necessarily pose a security risk is unsupported by adequate factual data."" The Crittenden Report remained secret until 1976. Navy officials claimed they had no record of studies of homosexuality, but attorneys learned of its existence and obtained"
"book with Tessa Blackstone about advising government. After a short period as an Under Secretary in the Department of Industry, he became first Director-General of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, and then Director of the UK Harkness Fellowships from 1988-91 New York, and subsequently Senior Adviser to the Harkness Fellowships in London 1991-98. With the end the original Fellowships, Plowden held a number of research professorships, was a member of the Court of Governors at the London School of Economics and continued to act as an independent consultant. William Julius Lowthian Plowden William Julius Lowthian Plowden (1935 – 26"