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  2. Project charter - Wikipedia

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    The three main uses of the project charter are: To authorize the project - using a comparable format, projects can be ranked and authorized by Return on Investment.; Serves as the primary sales document for the project - ranking stakeholders have a 1-2 page summary to distribute, present, and keep handy for fending off other project or operations runs at project resources.

  3. Terms of reference - Wikipedia

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    The terms of reference are created during the earlier stages of project management by the founders of the project in question, immediately after the approval of a project business case. They are documented by the project manager and presented to the project sponsor or sponsors for approval. Once the terms have been approved, the members of the ...

  4. Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution. Colonial charters were approved when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company. The charters defined the relationship of the colony to the mother country as free from involvement from the Crown.

  5. Charter Schools and Their Enemies - Wikipedia

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    Kevin D. Williamson praised the book in National Review, calling it "a bloodbath for Sowell’s intellectual opponents … a neutron bomb in the middle of the school-reform debate.” [5] Charter school advocate Robert Pondiscio agreed and said that the book was a “a metaphorical punch in the nose” for charter school critics and that Sowell “provide[s] ammunition for the fight ...

  6. International Book Project - Wikipedia

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    By providing needed quality books to the people of the developing world, the International Book Project seeks: To promote education and literacy in developing countries and in areas of need within the United States; To broaden Americans' understanding of their neighbors, and; To foster global friendships and strengthen world unity

  7. Charter schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Whether the charter school model can be scaled up to the size of a public noncharter school system has been questioned, when teaching demands more from teachers and many noncharter teachers are apparently unable to teach in the way charters seek, as has been suggested by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Diane Ravitch, education ...

  8. John Franklin Bobbitt - Wikipedia

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    This became an official specialization in the education sciences. The entrance point of a curriculum was, according to Bobbitt, to see which results have to be accomplished. Bobbitt felt that the curriculum has to adapt to the needs of an individual and to the needs of the new industrial society, people should not be taught what they would ...

  9. Curriculum theory - Wikipedia

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    Education that prepares for life is one that prepares definitely and adequately for these specific activities." [ 13 ] From this idea, he suggested that curriculum was a series of experiences that children have in order to meet " objectives ," or abilities and habits that people need for particular activities.