Bridgewater State University

About: Bridgewater State University is a education organization based out in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 625 authors who have published 1223 publications receiving 21820 citations. The organization is also known as: BSU & Bridgewater State.

The Supreme Court's Interpretation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act:

Abstract: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHCA), implemented only since 1977, has already caused a great deal of legal controversy, as evidenced by the hundreds of cases that have reached the courts. The many court decisions interpreting the EHCA form the basis of a common law that is as important to special educators as the Act itself. Thus far the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down decisions in four cases that it has heard. In these decisions the Court has defined what is meant by an appropriate education, has clarified the related services provision of the Act, has barred the awarding of attorney fees to the prevailing party in a special education suit, but has upheld a private school tuition reimbursement award to the parents of a handicapped child who successfully argued that the public schools did not provide an appropriate placement. These four decisions have had and will continue to have a profound impact on how the Act is implemented at the local level. The implications of the Supreme Court...

Shannon-Like Wavelet Frames on a Class of Nilpotent Lie Groups

Abstract: We prove and construct Shannon-like Parseval wavelet frames for a class of two step connected, and simply connected nilpotent Lie groups, using a mixture of representation theory, group Fourier theory, and Gabor theory. Moreover, we are able to compute an upperbound for the norm of these Parseval frame wavelets.

Contesting the Great Compression: The National Labor Relations Board and Skilled Workers’ Struggle to Control Wage Differentials, 1935–1955

Abstract: This article argues that federal labor policy was a factor in causing the Great Compression, the dramatic compression of skill-based wage differentials that occurred in the 1940s, and in bringing it to an end. By giving the National Labor Relations Board the power to determine the appropriate collective-bargaining unit, New Dealers gave industrial unions the means with which to build a more egalitarian wage structure. Unskilled and semiskilled workers seized the opportunity and voted themselves big pay raises. Skilled craftsmen responded by petitioning the NLRB for permission to form their own craft bargaining units, a process known as “craft severance.” As conservatives gained influence in Washington in the 1940s, the board adopted a bargaining-unit policy more favorable to craft unions. By the early 1950s, skilled craftsmen had regained control of their wage demands and thereby helped bring the Great Compression to a halt.

Social Engineering: Creating and Now Undoing Apartheid’s Structures

Abstract: Perhaps no other country has experienced as much and as detailed socio-political engineering as apartheid South Africa. The apartheid project impacted people’s lives at every level, always with the goal of creating a set of parallel but grossly unequal spatial realities with almost no meaningful contacts between the population groups. This apartheid era legacy is one of enormous inequalities reflected in landscapes of separate, ethnically determined social worlds filled with despair for non-White South Africans. The bulldozing of two residential districts – South End in Port Elizabeth and Sophiatown in Johannesburg – are used as examples of government policies intent on breaking up mixed-race areas in order to create the “neat” residential areas that were such an integral part of apartheid planning. In the post-apartheid era, planners now have the task of undoing the many legacies created by the racially based system. Since 1994 there has been significant improvement in service delivery and in quality of life conditions for previously disenfranchised South Africans, but most of that change has taken place within already defined residential districts, so that many of the previously racially segregated residential districts remain as rigidly segregated today as they were during apartheid. The persistence of the pattern of racial segregation is seen as an outcome of municipal policies which focuses on service delivery in situ and rather than on the deliberate racial integration of residential areas. It is posited that not implementing policies of social integration could cause difficulties for future national cohesion and development.