Increased accountability has led to increased pressure on administrators to meet AYP. By identifying strengths that are present in successful administrators, superintendents will be better equipped to make well-informed selections and administrators can target specific areas for professional growth. This study used a self-assessment created from the Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment to analyze the strengths of principals and the commonalities in those strengths based on (a) percentage of adequate yearly progress (AYP) achieved, (b) grade levels served (middle school or high school) and (c) community served (urban or suburban). It is important to note that community served is not meant to indicate the socio-economic status of a school, but instead whether schools reside within census defined urban areas. It was found that there was a statistically significant difference in the ranking of principal strength of input based on the adequate yearly progress achievement of the school. There was also a statistically significant difference between the principals' ranking of both the strengths of communication and harmony based on grade level served and strengths of achiever and responsibility based on community served. While other strengths did not show statistically significant differences among various groups, their overall rankings are provided and discussed.

The focus of this research was to examine the professional learning of school instructional and administrative staff as they focused on the elements of becoming a professional learning community. Existing research examined the components and behaviors collectively or independently. This research describes the relational data between the critical elements of focus, the leader, teams, and individual teacher as related to student achievement. It was determined through the literature review and results of this study that there were constructs of professional learning communities that were related to student achievement. In particular, a statistically significant relationship between proficiency in reading and teacher reflection was found. Additional behaviors of teachers and leaders were discussed in relation to increased student achievement. Suggested uses for the study included the consideration of practices by leaders in creating professional learning communities that support student achievement. An additional suggestion was the utilization of reflective practice and action research as means for increased student achievement.

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The Casual Connection as an Element of the Legal Liability Abstract of Dissertation The concept of the casual connection is not understood in a uniform manner, although it represents the principal legal institute that enables functioning of the law. However, the nature and purpose of the legal liability in the Czech jurisprudence remains the object of discussions, and this is supported by the fact that the positive legal regulation uses the concept of liability at random. Within the vindicative concept of the legal liability as the secondary legal liability arising as the result of the violation of the primary legal liability, we can discern several basic elements. It is particularly the violation of the legal liability, the negative consequence consisting in the violation of or a threat to the legal values, as well as the casual connection between the wrongful act and the negative consequence. The causal connection is the principal element of the legal liability which represents the objective element whereby a wrongful act may be attributed to a certain subject. Thus, the causal connection transmits the penal liability to the subject concerned. Mostly, it is not difficult to find the element of violation of the legal liability and the negative consequence. However, the situation is more complicated in the...

This thesis describes and analyses a conditional sentence as a criminal punishment. The penalty exists under Czech legislation as a suspended sentence of imprisonment and a suspended sentence of imprisonment with supervision. The essence of the conditional sentence lies in a decision of a court that finds an offender guilty and sentences him to imprisonment, but the execution of the sentence is suspended if the court taking into account the character and circumstances of the offender has a reasonable belief that execution of the sentence is not necessary to induce the offender to lead an upright life. According to statistics, the conditional sentence is the most frequently imposed criminal sentence in the Czech Republic. The first chapter describes the conditional sentence as an alternative sentence, as well as principles of restorative justice. The next chapter deals with the essence of the conditional sentence and its arguable legal status. Despite the fact that legal theory considers the conditional sentence as a distinct type of punishment, the Criminal Code indicates that it shall be only one of the form of the sentence of imprisonment. The third chapter includes some worldwide historical facts concerning the conditional sentence and its influence by a probation as well as historical evolution...

Por mais que os cientistas separem e classifiquem os elementos da realidade para melhor compreendê-la, ele preserva a sua natureza complexa e multidisciplinar. O mesmo raciocínio pode ser aplicado aos conflitos. A sociedade de massa, por sua vez, potencializou o surgimento de conflitos complexos. As peculiaridades e os diferentes aspectos destas situações tornam improvável que sejam adequadamente tratados e solucionados por mecanismos genéricos. Considerando isso e em uma perspectiva de meios adequados de solução de conflito, o método do desenho de sistemas de solução de conflito (Dispute System Design DSD) propõe que sejam criados sistemas personalizados a partir de princípios e técnicas. Dessa forma, seriam dadas as respostas processuais aos diferentes aspectos do conflito. Com o intuito de analisar a aplicação dos princípios e técnicas do DSD à realidade, estudar-se-ão os casos da Câmara de Indenização Voo 3054 (CI3054) e do Programa de Indenização Voo 447 (PI447). Estes sistemas tinham como escopo solucionar os conflitos provenientes de acidentes aéreos que ocorreram em 2007 e 2009, com aeronaves das companhias TAM e Air France, respectivamente. Nas duas tragédias não houve sobreviventes. / Although the scientists separate and classify the elements of reality to understand it better, it preserves its complex and multidisciplinary nature. The same reasoning can be applied to conflicts. The mass society, in its turn, increased the emergence of complex conflicts. The peculiarity and the different aspects of these situations makes it unlikely to be adequately processed and solved by generic mechanisms. Considering this and the perspective of adequate conflict resolution, the Dispute System Design - DSD suggests that custom systems can be created from principles and technical. Therefore would be given the procedural responses to the different aspects of the conflict. In order to examine the application of the principles and techniques of DSD to reality, will be studied the cases of the Câmara de Indenização Voo 3054 (CI3054) and Programa de Indenização Voo 447 (PI447). These systems were scoped to resolve conflicts arising from plane crashes that occurred in 2007 and 2009, with TAM and Air France aircraft. In the two tragedies there were no survivors.

Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2017-02-21T16:49:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 José Wilson Gonçalves.pdf: 1151710 bytes, checksum: 108ecc06feb865e85a2f2498291a9725 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-21T16:49:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 José Wilson Gonçalves.pdf: 1151710 bytes, checksum: 108ecc06feb865e85a2f2498291a9725 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-10 / The deep concern about the abyss between the academy and the practice in which the Law is established has encouraged the inception of this work, which gives special emphasis to the prohibition of insufficient judicial protection, mainly due to abnormal delay and poor quality of the Lawsuit as a public service. Therefore, it was entitled "Effective judicial protection - A constant concern about time (but also with quality)." It is essential that, intransigently, an adequate speed is given to the lawsuit, specifically taking into account the need for the holder of the right defended in court. For this constitutional desideratum to be achieved, it is imperative to start with a good law including a good judicial structure and good applicators. They embody a trilogy which must work as a necessarily tuned gear. In addition, the process can not be regarded as a pure logical order, inflexibly subject to predetermined formulas, but instead, it must be practiced in a sensitive way to the specificity which justifies it democratically, rendering the service particularly appropriate, and always observing the useful contradictory, prior or postponed. In this respect, the differentiated procedures are honored, precisely aiming to meet the concrete need, especially the procedures established in order to tutor the right from the outset, either for the sake of assertion or for satisfaction, either in case of urgency or in case of evidence, fighting against scientific treasures or baroque formalism. The main idea is to draw attention to the fact that the study of law must be committed to a practical result, never allowing it to be conceived as a fuel of intellectual vanity, highly harmful / A inquietação com o abismo entre a academia e a prática no que atina ao Direito deflagrou a coragem à elaboração deste trabalho, que traz destaque especial à proibição da proteção judicial insuficiente, que se dá, principalmente, em face da demora anormal e da baixa qualidade do processo, enquanto serviço público. Por isso, foi intitulado “Proteção judicial efetiva – Uma preocupação constante com o tempo (mas, também, com a qualidade)”. É essencial que, intransigivelmente, imprima-se velocidade adequada ao processo, tomando-se em conta, concretamente, a necessidade do titular do direito defendido em juízo. Para que esse desiderato – que, aliás, é constitucional – seja alcançado é imprescindível que se inicie com uma boa lei e que haja boa estrutura judiciária e bons aplicadores, cuidando-se de trilogia que deve funcionar como uma engrenagem necessariamente sintonizada. Ademais, o processo não pode ser tido como uma ordem lógica pura, sujeito inflexivelmente a fórmulas predeterminadas, mas antes, deve ser praticado de modo sensível à especificidade que democraticamente lhe justifica, prestando-se o serviço particularmente apropriado, sempre com observância do contraditório útil, prévio ou postergado. Nessa toada, são prestigiados os procedimentos diferenciados, justamente visando atender à necessidade concreta, especialmente os procedimentos estatuídos na finalidade de tutelar o direito desde logo, seja visando à mera assegura- ção seja visando à satisfação, quer em caso de urgência quer em caso de evidência, combatendo-se as preciosidades científicas ou o formalismo barroco. A ideia central consiste em chamar a atenção para que o estudo do Direito tenha comprometimento com o resultado prático, não se concebendo que seja combustível de vaidade intelectual, altamente nefasta

O presente trabalho de pesquisa tem por objetivo a análise do processo coletivo no modelo representativo de interesses. Busca-se, inicialmente, além de trazer algumas considerações históricas sobre o direito de conduzir o processo coletivo, estabelecer as distinções que podem e devem ser feitas entre a representação judicial de pessoas, típica das relações interindividuais, e a representação judicial de interesses, aplicável no campo do processo coletivo. A partir desta premissa, será demonstrado que as discussões nefrálgicas incidentes sobre os institutos da legitimidade e da representatividade adequada decorrem da imprópria adoção do modelo representativo de pessoas, no campo do processo coletivo. Ao final, conclui-se que o processo coletivo só terá a utilidade, a efetividade e o alcance estabelecidos pela Carta Constitucional, até mesmo para a denominada ação coletiva passiva, quando perdermos o fascínio pelo individualismo e enfrentarmos o processo coletivo como sendo verdadeiramente um processo de massa e de representação de interesses. / The present study aims to analyze the class action in the interest representation model. Initially, besides bringing up some historical considerations about the right to file a class action lawsuit, it seeks to make a distinction, which can and must be made, between the judicial representation of people - typical of interindividual relations - and the judicial representation of interests, applicable to the class action field. Based on this premise, it will be demonstrated that the discussions which hit a raw nerve and fall upon the legitimacy institutes and the adequate representation result from the improper adoption of the people representation model in the field of the class action. Finally, it is concluded that the class action will only be useful and far-reaching, as established by the Constitution - including the passive class action - when we lose the allure of individualism and view the class action as a real mass action and as the representation of interests.

A pesquisa investiga a efetivação do princípio do contraditório no âmbito das ações coletivas e do incidente de resolução de demandas repetitivas (IRDR), por meio da realização do controle judicial da representação adequada, sugerindo possíveis critérios nos quais o magistrado brasileiro poderá se pautar. Também, verifica se há, no Código de Defesa do Consumidor (CDC), na Lei da Ação Civil Pública (LACP) e no Código de Processo Civil (CPC), outras medidas que possibilitam o contraditório. O desenvolvimento do trabalho se divide em cinco etapas. Na primeira, estuda-se o tratamento dos litígios de massa no âmbito do direito processual civil brasileiro, demonstrando o contexto em que estão inseridos as ações coletivas que tutelam os direitos individuais homogêneos e o IRDR. Na segunda, situa-se o princípio constitucional do contraditório, corolário do devido processo legal, como instrumento essencial ao acesso substancial à justiça e imperativo da democracia no âmbito do processo, sem desconsiderar suas distinções no âmbito do processo coletivo. Na terceira, caracteriza-se a representação adequada nas ações coletivas e no IRDR, e se afirma a necessidade da realização de seu controle judicial no direito brasileiro. Na quarta etapa, perquire-se em quais parâmetros o juiz poderá se pautar para aferir a adequação da representatividade, realizando-se uma construção doutrinária a partir dos regramentos das class actions do direito norte-americano e do Musterverfahren do direito alemão, do requisito da pertinência temática e dos quatro Anteprojetos de Código de Processo Civil Coletivo elaborados no país. Na quinta etapa, investiga-se se há outras formas, diversas da representação adequada, dispostas nas leis basilares do microssistema processual coletivo e no CPC, que seriam hábeis a possibilitar a participação democrática das partes e demais interessados nos referidos instrumentos processuais, em atendimento ao princípio do contraditório. Para a construção do raciocínio, levantam-se os dados por meio da técnica de pesquisa bibliográfica em materiais publicados (legislação e doutrina nacionais e estrangeiras, artigos, dissertações, teses, jurisprudência, anuários estatísticos do Conselho Nacional de Justiça, entre outros). Dentre os resultados, verifica-se que, embora não esteja previsto na legislação brasileira, o magistrado tem poderes para aferir a adequação da representatividade. A exigência do requisito da pertinência temática demonstra uma tendência à afirmação do controle judicial no direito brasileiro, não se limitando à abstração da legislação. A despeito da importância da sua expressa previsão e do detalhamento de critérios, deve-se evitar uma legislação desnecessariamente burocrática e uma margem grande de formalismo, que possa obstaculizar a análise do mérito. Apesar da necessidade de alterações em ambos os institutos, para disciplinar a matéria, não se pode afirmar que o procedimento do IRDR padece de inconstitucionalidade por violar o contraditório, pois possibilita a participação democrática de outras formas. Inclusive o faz de modo mais pormenorizado do que está previsto no CDC e na LACP para as ações coletivas. / The research investigates the occurrence of the contradictory principle within the scope of collective actions and the incident of resolution of repetitive demands (IRDR), by means of the judicial control of the appropriate representation, suggesting possible criteria in which the Brazilian magistrate can be guided. It also checks whether there are other measures in the Consumer Protection Code (CDC), the Public Civil Action Law (LACP) and the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC). The development of the work is divided into five stages. In the first one, it studies the treatment of mass litigation at the Brazilian civil procedural law, demonstrating the context in which the collective actions that protect individual homogeneous rights and the IRDR are inserted. In the second stage, it is situated the constitutional principle of the contradictory, a corollary of due process of law, as an essential instrument for substantial access to justice and the imperative of democracy in the collective process, without disregarding its distinctions in the collective process. In the third, it is characterized the adequate representation in the collective actions and in the IRDR, and it is affirmed that the necessity of the realization of its judicial control in the Brazilian law. In the fourth stage, it is investigated which parameters the judge can use to assess the appropriateness of representativeness. A doctrinal construction is carried out from the class actions\' rules of the American law, the Musterverfahren\' rules of German law, the requirement of thematic pertinence and the four Draft of Collective Civil Procedure Code elaborated in the country. In the fifth one, it is investigated if there are other forms, different from the appropriate representation, disposed in the basic laws of the collective process microsystem and in the CPC, that would be able to allow the democratic participation of the parties and other interested parties in the mentioned procedural instruments, in attendance to the principle of the contradictory. For the construction of the reasoning, the data are raised through the technique of bibliographical research in published materials (national and foreign legislation and doctrine, articles, dissertations, theses, jurisprudence, statistical yearbooks of the National Council of Justice, among others). Among the results, it is verified that, although it is not envisaged in the Brazilian legislation, the magistrate can assess the adequacy of representativeness. The thematic pertinence requirement demonstrates a tendency to affirm judicial control in Brazilian law, not limited to the abstraction of the legislation. Despite of the importance of its express provision and detailed criteria, unnecessarily bureaucratic legislation and a large margin of formalism, that could hinder the analysis of merit, should be avoided. Although the need for changes in both institutes, to discipline the matter, it can\'t be said that the IRDR procedure is unconstitutional because it violates the contradictory, since it makes possible democratic participation in other ways. Furthermore, it does more detailed than it is envisaged by the CDC and the LACP for collective actions.

When Democrats and Republicans crafted the 2002 No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the bipartisan reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), they did so with the best of intentions: Close our nation’s staggering achievement gap with federal leadership, accountability, flexibility, and choice. But a over a decade later, many argue the law’s flaws have outweighed its successes to detriment of our public education system, schools, teachers, and most importantly, our students. In accordance with ESEA’s traditional reauthorization cycle, NCLB was signed into law in 2002 and expired in 2007. It is now 2013, and our nation’s education policy still has yet to be reauthorized. In examining how this can be accomplished, this paper first demonstrates how our tradition of local school control developed into one of dual jurisdiction. It then examines the executive and legislative battle that produced NCLB in the 107th Congress. Next, this paper analyzes the intended and unintended consequences of NCLB, which include conflicting conservative and liberal mechanisms, perverse incentives, narrowing and homogenizing education, inadequate resources, ignoring community issues, and seeking annual educational profit over qualitative learning. The paper concludes with an outlook on reauthorization–how NCLB should be substantively improved, as well as, the political context in which this reauthorization will occur.