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Master of Arts (MA)

There has been a trend toward increased in educational accountability for the past fifty years as seen through legislation, policy, and guidance implemented by state education agencies. While states had accountability systems, the federal NCLB Act of 2001 formalized the current system that worked to remediate schools challenged to meet the accountability expectations? Exacerbating these circumstances was a shifting accountability model, AZ LEARNS, that measured school performance from 2007-2009. The Arizona Department of Education formalized processes and structures to address the needs of low-capacity schools through the State System of Support. This research examined the role of the ASSIST Coach in underperforming schools as a measure of state intervention in Arizona. Data revealed that insufficient time, resources, and support were afforded to low-capacity schools by the ASSIST Coach to affect change that resulted in school improvement within the AZ LEARNS model. Additionally, the skills, experience, and background did not align to the needs of low-capacity schools that participated in this study. In the absence of effective state intervention, schools turned to internal capacities to plan for and implement school improvement initiatives that were minimally effective in turning around their respective underperformance. Based on these findings, recommendations for future research were offered to strengthen the support for schools under the State System of Support in Arizona.

<p> This paper focuses on the process of state intervention in the urban space economy. The circulation of capital in and its effect on urban space provide the context for the analysis of the intervention process. Particular attention is paid to the circulation of property capital and urban finance capital which are directly involved in capital formation in urban space. The model of the state formulated by Claus Offe forms the basis for establishing the relationship between the function and internal operation of the state and the conditions arising from capital circulation. By linking the model of capitalist urbanism with the model of the capitalist state a framework was created for the analysis and evaluation of state action. The components of the framework are capital circulation, the logic of urban planning and mechanisms governing the internal operation of the state. Socialized management and collective production are intervention strategies analyzed within the framework, and are shown to be sources of contradiction and crisis.</p> / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

O objetivo principal deste estudo é abordar o processo de transformação espacial de Campos Elíseos como condição à reprodução do capital no contexto da metrópole de São Paulo. A problemática fundamental é a reprodução do espaço, na qual enfatizamos o chamado processo de revitalização, situado no movimento de valorização, desvalorização e revalorização do capital. Nesta última fase, sobressai a intervenção mais direta do Estado, tentando induzir e sustentar uma reprodução mais dinâmica do capital através da atração de novos investimentos. Essas estratégias de revalorização vêm gerando conflitos entre as diversas classes e segmentos sociais pela apropriação desse espaço, com uma tendência à expulsão da população mais pobre. / The main objective of this study is to approach the process of spatial transformation of Campos Eliseos, as condition to capital reproduction in the context of the metropolis of Sao Paulo. The basic problematic is the reproduction of the space, in which we emphasize the so called revitalization process, placed on the movement of valuation, devaluation and revaluation of capital. In the last phase, the state intervention is more direct, trying to induce and sustain a more dynamic reproduction of the capital, through the attraction of new investments. These strategies of revaluation create conflicts among several classes and social segments for the appropriation of this space, with a trend to expel the poorest population.

Using a Millian framework, this thesis examines whether or not children are victims of child abuse when they are inculcated with racist belief systems. The conclusion is that children are not harmed and so not the victims of child abuse, but instead are badly parented.

This thesis focuses on three state theories that aim to define the structures of the Third World states by the West. The terms of the &lsquo / rentier&rsquo / , &lsquo / failed&rsquo / and &lsquo / rogue&rsquo / states are critically examined in an attempt to understand how they define the difference, how they negate the different, and how they legitimize certain policies towards the different. By concentrating on the liberal theorizing that analyzes the state on the basis of the claimed civil society-state divide, and from an orientalist perspective, this study aims to demonstrate that these state theories refuse the possibility of transformation of those states by their own internal dynamics. It is argued that with the help of such discourses, rather than being simple theoretical constructs these state theories have become functional means to legitimize certain historical practices.

The prevalent approaches in terms of the restructuring of the state in Turkey during the 1980s grasp the relations between state and society as relations of exteriority. Statist-institutionalist or technicist approaches detach the formation of economic policies from social struggles whereas the critical analyses interpret the implementation of structural adjustment policies as a functional response to the crisis of capital. Instead of these explanations, it seems there is a need for taking into consideration the relations between state and society as internal relations and grasping the restructuring of the state as a form assumed by social struggles and understanding the intervention of the state into the economy as a moment within the process of reproduction of the contradictions. Such a theoretical position has the power of explaining the changing forms of state intervention on the basis of the class character of the capitalist state and in a relational way.