How School Districts Can Stretch the School Dollar

While the economy may be turning around, local school districts nationwide continue to struggle mightily. The "new normal" of tougher budget times are here to stay for American K-12 education. So how can local officials cope? This policy brief provides a useful tool for navigating the financial challenges of the current school-funding climate, complete with clear dos and don'ts for anyone involved in or concerned with local education budgets. Author Michael J. Petrilli argues that quick fixes won't solve the problem, nor will slashing teacher salaries. Instead, creative, thoughtful, and fundamental changes are needed to address our budget crisis without hurting children

Translation as the Doctrine of Inter-genre and Trans-genre Communication: A Semioethic Perspective

The proposal of ‘translation semioethics’ with its focus on inter-genre and trans-genre communication, that is, communication among singularities, arises in the context of global semiotics developed in the direction of semioethics. Translation semioethics contributes to underlining the need for the humanism of alterity by contrast with the humanism of identity.La proposition d’une sémioéthique de la traduction centrée sur la communication entre les genres et transgenre, c’est-à-dire sur la communication entre des singularités, naît du contexte de la sémiotique globale, développée dans la direction de la sémioéthique. La sémioéthique de la traduction contribue à mettre en évidence le besoin d’humanisme de l’altérité en opposition avec l’humanisme de l’identité

Senso ottuso, senso femminile e leggerezza della significanza : Forrest Gump di Robert Zemeckis

Petrilli analiza la película de Zemeckis como ejemplo de relato lleno de sentido crítico femenino: un sentido crítico fundado en el diálogo, en el amor, en la ironía, siempre dispuesto a la escucha y a la acogida del otro. La autora compara la sensibilidad de la narración fílmica, que valoriza la inteligencia femenina, representada por Forrest Gump, con la excesiva inmediatez y banalidad de la novela homónima (Eric Roth, 1986) que evoca las pautas clásicas del cuento popular