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The book compares the standardized test scores of both elementary
and high schools charter schools with the scores for regular public
schools located nearby. It examines the position supported by
charter school advocates that charter schools should be supported
because they outperform regular public schools. Given that charter
schools in Chicago have enjoyed a great deal of support from the
past two mayors, and that they make up some 20% of all public
schools in the city, Chicago is the perfect location in which to
examine this critical issue. Charter schools siphon money and in
theory better students from regular public schools at a time when
public schools in almost every big city faces financial
difficulties. Teachers unions oppose them, as do most liberal
scholars. Conservatives and big business support them, as do most
conservative scholars. The existence of charter schools is a most
divisive issue! Yet, little real data exist to allow us to properly
judge the effectiveness of charters. The current work changes that
by examining test data in a sophisticated manner that allows
comparisons between charters and regular schools. This work should
move the debate forward, but will no doubt generate controversy as
well.
George W. Niven was a lawyer and con-man who cheated his victims,
all incarcerated prostitutes, pickpockets and other petty
criminals, by promising legal help and taking their meager property
in exchange. Since it involved a corrupt lawyer, criminals and
venal jailors, his trial was a perfect subject for a trial report,
one of the most popular genres of antebellum literature. This
trial, frequently cited in later histories of American law, is
equally important as an early source for the history of legal
malpractice litigation in the U.S. and its description of the
practice of a lawyer at the margins of the profession. The
affidavits of Niven's victims also provides a great deal of vital
information about the daily lives of prisoners in the early decades
of the Republic. William Sampson 1764-1836] was an Irish rights
activist whose part in the Uprising of 1798 led to his relocation
to New York, where he engaged in a successful law career.
The book compares the standardized test scores of both elementary
and high schools charter schools with the scores for regular public
schools located nearby. It examines the position supported by
charter school advocates that charter schools should be supported
because they outperform regular public schools. Given that charter
schools in Chicago have enjoyed a great deal of support from the
past two mayors, and that they make up some 20% of all public
schools in the city, Chicago is the perfect location in which to
examine this critical issue. Charter schools siphon money and in
theory better students from regular public schools at a time when
public schools in almost every big city faces financial
difficulties. Teachers unions oppose them, as do most liberal
scholars. Conservatives and big business support them, as do most
conservative scholars. The existence of charter schools is a most
divisive issue! Yet, little real data exist to allow us to properly
judge the effectiveness of charters. The current work changes that
by examining test data in a sophisticated manner that allows
comparisons between charters and regular schools. This work should
move the debate forward, but will no doubt generate controversy as
well.
Full Title: "The Case of George W. Niven, Esq. Attorney and
Counsellor at Law. Charged With Mal-Practices, and Suspended by
Order of The Court of Common Pleas, of The City of
New-York"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials,
1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials
from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially
published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more.
Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those
precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and
historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case,
the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides
unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as
well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the
historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and
divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification
fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is
provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
identification: ++++MonographNew York City BarNew-York: Van Pelt
& Spear, Printers, 95 Pearl-Street. 1822
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