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Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society.

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This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it discusses general issues pertaining to implementing deep, large-scale changes in the core of learning and instruction. The book emphasizes challenges related to professional development, assessment, achievement gaps, and the tension between knowledge and skills in 21st century curricula. It summarizes insights the author has gained from approximately 25 years of engaging with these topics both as an academic and as a practitioner who led a national change process. With a Forward by David Perkins.

Educational change. --- Educational innovations. --- Teaching. --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Education --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Innovations, Educational --- Technological change in education --- Educational planning --- Educational change --- Educational technology --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Educational innovations --- Innovations --- Technological innovations --- Experimental methods --- Education and state. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Teachers—Training of. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- History --- Government policy --- Reforma de l'educació --- Innovacions educatives --- Política educativa --- Innovacions educatives.

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Insects have successfully inhabited all freshwater habitats on Earth and are often the most diverse and abundant species in streams and ponds. With a disproportionally high species richness compared to the area covered by freshwaters, aquatic insects represent a hotspot of diversity. They play crucial roles in aquatic food webs as primary consumers, detritivores, and predators, but they also represent an important food resource for aquatic and terrestrial predators. Many aquatic insect orders, such as mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies, include taxa that are highly sensitive to habitat alterations, reflecting the health of the overall aquatic ecosystem. This feature is exploited by many scientists and practitioners around the world for water and environment quality monitoring. Despite their importance in term of diversity, ecosystem services and bioindication, many aquatic insect species are critically endangered, mainly due to anthropogenic pressures on freshwaters and climate change. Although the research efforts on aquatic insects tremendously increased during the 21st century, much is still left undiscovered. This Special Issue addresses existing knowledge gaps and increases our understanding of taxonomic diversity and phylogeny, distribution patterns, and community ecology of aquatic insects through 15 new studies that cover most of the aquatic insect orders over a wide geographic range. In a context of rapid global biodiversity loss, accelerating the acquisition of both fundamental and applied knowledge is crucial.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- odonate --- flight period --- checklist --- Eastern Mediterranean --- citizen science --- climate --- water quality --- functional richness --- functional specialization --- functional evenness --- impact of mining and forest fire --- aquatic insects --- conservation --- life cycle --- limnology --- mayfly --- North Africa --- rivers --- streams --- developing country --- multivariate statistics --- bioindication value --- index scores --- WQI --- HQI --- EPT --- stoneflies --- USA --- species richness --- hierarchical unit codes --- flow intermittence --- environmental variables --- aquatic macrophytes --- karst --- dragonflies --- damselflies --- anthropogenic impact --- distribution --- local extinction --- museum study --- Plecoptera --- population decline --- island biogeography --- new species --- taxonomy --- biodiversity --- colonization --- endemism --- species radiation --- diving beetles --- freshwater --- chironomid larvae --- water pollution index (WPI) --- alpha and beta diversity --- anthropogenic pressure --- taxonomic diversity --- substrate preference --- Danube --- floodplain --- gomphid nymphs --- Orientogomphus --- Thailand --- Heteroptera --- aquatic --- species compositions --- marine insects --- Hemiptera --- biogeography --- Rif --- Atlas --- Central Plateau --- Oriental Morocco --- mayflies --- phylogenomics --- phylogenetics --- systematics --- n/a