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How can teachers learn to teach rich, academically rigorous multicultural curricula under current standardization constraints? In her new book, Christine Sleeter offers a much-needed framework to help teachers take on this challenge. By contrasting key curricular assumptions with those of multicultural education, she reveals the aspects they share as well as the conceptual and political differences between them. Sleeter makes a strong case for what teachers can do to "un-standardize" knowledge in their own classrooms, while working toward high standards of academic achievement.

Features:
* Detailed portraits of activist teachers committed to multicultural education, including the constraints and challenges they face.
* Guidance for teachers who want to develop their classroom practice, illustrating the possibilities and spaces teachers have within a standardized curriculum.
* A field-tested conceptual framework that elaborates on the following elements of curriculum design: ideology, enduring ideas, democratized assessment, transformative intellectual knowledge, students and their communities, intellectual challenge, and curriculum resources..
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Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research.

Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice.

This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

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CONTENTS I-PLANNING AND FILLING ORDERS CEAPTEB PAGE I BRINGING PRODUCTION UP TO CAPACITY . . 11 Keeping the entire investment productive 13-Analysis of production suggests the best adjustment of work 15-How to get all the producing departments to pull together. 17-Supervising operation and following up the work 21 I1 RUNNING THE FACTORY BY SCHEDULE . . 2s Dividing and scheduling the manufacturing order 27-How many men to employ 28-What sizes and styles to make first 31-How to run a single department on a schedule 32-How stock is supplied for filling orders on time 33 I11 LAYING OUT AND ROUTING THE WORK . . 35 Making it easier for the workman to understand his job 35-How an engineering department reorganized to hold down layout costs 36-The three basic principles of efficient operation 45 N WHAT QUANTITY TO MAKE AT ONCE . . . 47 What length of run is best 47-Calculating economical size of lots under standard conditions 48-How the formula for determining quantities works out in practice 51 V REGULATING STOCK PRODUCTION . . 63 Readjusting schedules to new demands 53-Graphic systems for controlling operation in factories making to stock 54-Holding departments to schedule 60-How a production record gave one manager a new grip on his factory 64-Meeting the demands of a heavy season 66 V1 SPECIAL AND MAINTENANCE ORDER SYSTEMS . 70 Fourteen principles that apply to special orders 71-FolIowing work by control board and order coupons 75-Pushing maintenance orders 79--. Ascertaining their cost 80-How to organize for personal follow-up on rush orders 84 6 CONTENTS V11 KEEPING QUALITY UP TO STANDARD . . . 88 How quality is maintained by the National Cash Register Company 89-Inspecting two hundred million pieces of stock in a year 90-Inspection that keeps pace with stock m rocess -What to do about the quality-quantity prohem 97 11-COST-KEEPING METHODS V111 FITTING A COST SYSTEM TO THE PLANT . . . System versus red tape 102-Sound cost keeping an investment 104-Conditions on which cost control depends 104 IX LAYING THE BASIS FOR ACCURATE COSTS . . Where to begin in estimating the amount of capital invested in a plant 108-Taking actual inventory with the least labor and expense 112-How to figure depredation 117 X COMPILING FIXED CHARGES . . . . . What are fixed charges 120-How to put a fair burden of fixed charges on each unit of output 12lFGetting at charges which must be estimated on a value basis 145 XI EXPENSE ANALYSIS AND DISTRIBUTION . How to assemble departmental costs 129-Problems involved in the distribution of factory general expense 131-How to distribute indirect expense to the direct cost of the product 134 XI1 COLLECTING MATERIAL AND LABOR COSTS . . Getting the cost of direct and indirect materials, waste and scrap 139-Collecting labor costs daily 144-The job time ticket as an aid to efficient cost keeping 149 m11 FINDING THE TOTAL COST OP THE PRODUCT . ....
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