Will Special-Contracted Teachers Promote the Development of Rural Students? From the Perspective of the New Human Capital Theory

The Special-Contracted Teacher Scheme, a supplement to the traditional mode of teacher supply, has been implemented for 17 years and the teaching quality of those teachers has gained a lot of attention. Using data of teachers and students from the sample counties in four central and western provincial-level administrative units, this paper studies how special-contracted teachers have affected students’ academic performance and non-cognitive ability according to the student development framework of the new human capital theory, and how those effects vary among different teacher groups. Results show that while special-contracted teachers have helped improve the academic performance of rural students, their role is limited in improving students’ non-cognitive ability. At the same time, female special-contracted teachers and those without a normal major play an obviously bigger role in raising students’ academic performance. The conclusion is that special-contracted teachers can to some extent help narrow the urban-rural gap in academic performance, but more research needs to be done to better understand their effects on students’ non-cognitive ability.     

How to Enhance the Effectiveness of the Role of Editors in Quality Assurance in Distant Education

In distant education there is no or very little possibility for face-to-face communication. So in this kind of education the messages of the texts and other educational materials must be so clear and non-contradictory and their prose must be so fluent and grammatically correct that, without any extra explanation and interpretation on the part of any lecturer, they can be easily understood by students. So, after the authors produce the texts, there must be an editor to see if the texts are qualified as proper texts for distant education. The present paper deals with the efficiency of editors and editing in PNU and some other universities in other parts of the world that are run by distant education svstem. It exnlains the nresent situation and nroblems and offers solutions to dissolve the difficulties.     

On the Development of Rural Hiking Tour and Optimization of Rural Tour Facilities --.Taking Guilin＇s country hiking tour as an example

乡村徒步旅游是一种灵活自由、老少咸宜的旅游方式,对经济发展、文化融合、环境保护等具有积极的意义。但是,该旅游方式在安全、生态环境等方面也会带来一些现实问题。开辟新的徒步游线路,完善乡村旅游基础设施和服务设施,提高徒步旅游的信息服务质量,保护乡村文化和文化空间,是乡村徒步旅游开发与乡村旅游设施优化的主要措施。     

Analysis on the Features of Advertising English——Take Canon EOS-1Ds Mark Ⅲ as an Example

As a kind of linguistic style and a special being of market economy system, advertising has to be accordant to audience's taste and the mass psychology. Thanks to the special application field, the feature of advertising variety has its own characteristic compared with other English varieties. This essay takes the"EOS-1Ds Mark Iliac"as an example and makes a thorough investigation on the English of advertising.     

The Analysis of Sports Film Through the Adaptation Theory—Take Film Glory Road as an Example

The paper analyzes sports film from the aspect of Adaptation Theory,and gives an overview of explanatory power of the Adaptation Theory so that people could have a new and powerful to understand the using of language.     

Analysis on the Features of Advertising English——Take Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III as an Example

As a kind of linguistic style and a special being of market economy system, advertising has to be accordant to audience’s taste and the mass psychology. Thanks to the special application field, the feature of advertising variety has its own characteristic compared with other English varieties. This essay takes the“EOS-1Ds Mark Iliac”as an example and makes a thorough investigation on the English of advertising.     

On the Preferential Paths to Promote the Sustainable Development of the Party＇s Construction through Network

网络党建从无到有,虽然取得了一定成果,但与商业运作的网站相比,仍然存在着一些与时代发展、社会需求和党建工作目标不相符合的问题。本文从深刻理解网络党建的本质内涵出发,着重分析了当前网络党建定位偏低、建设水平不高,网络党建资源缺乏整合;党建网站吸引力小、点击率低、缺乏网络社会生活质感及网络党建工作者忌讳网络的负面影响而主动放弃网络阵地等不足及其成因,试图从架构大网络党建系统,整合资源,培养政治素质高和技术精干的工作队伍;打造互动型党建网站,加强党员群众的横向沟通,赋予网络党建以网络社会生活质感;创新党员活动方式等方面入手,有针对性地解决目前网络党建中存在的问题,从而促进网络党建持续快速健康发展。     

On the Possibility of Peasants＇ Democracy：Take Ancient Greece as an Example

纯粹的农民社会能不能达成民主？一般认为,在农民＂市民化＂之前,即被普遍的市场联结为横向平等的市民身份之前,农民并不能成为民主的动力和社会基础。但也有人认为,希腊的城邦民主是个特例,它是一群农民在城邦条件下建立并维系的民主。本文则证明,古代希腊的农民同历史上其他时期的农民一样,既相互隔绝、保守、愚昧,又不能自救,而且处于城市经济不间断的侵蚀之中。把民主与这样的农民联系在一起等于说民主可以代表落后的政治形态。即便特定的历史条件把农民客观上推到了社会的主导地位,比如在古代城邦条件下,土地所有者是城邦的当然公民,也绝不可能按照民主的原则组织政治生活。所谓古希腊的＂农民民主＂只是乌托邦理念在历史上的投影。     

Analysis on Current Situation of English Teaching in Rural Primary Schools—Take Tai gu County in Shan Xi Province as an example

Nowadays,English education in rural areas draws more attention in the society.However,the current situation of English teaching is worrying.Visit and investigated Limeizhuang primary school in Taigu County,Shanxi province and found some problems,so as to promote English teaching in rural primary schools.     

A study on the Popular Words on Line——Take the Popular Words of Recent Years as Examples

Popular word on line is a kind of language form which is welcomed by netizens.The popular word on line is the most active part of network language.They are made of expressions what the internet users are established by usage.The popular words on line have a very strong nature of medium.They are the comprehensive products which come from the facts of social politics,economics,culture,environment and people’s psychological activities etc.of a certain time.The total amount of new emerging popular words on line is not so many every year,but the influence of them can not be belittled.This study focuses on the popular words on line with the cases of the popular words occured in recent years.It works on the reasons for their rapid spreading.The author summarizes their characteristics and put forward some ways for the guidance of the popular words on line.     

On Heimingway's Employment of Symbolism to Present the Theme of Alienation——ACase Study of In Another Country

This paper explores how Heimingway presents the theme of alienation by employing symoblism in his short story In Another Country.     

A Brief Analysis on the Phenomenon of Language Simplification——Take English and Chinese as examples

<正>It is well-known that language is the carrier of culture,which is always changing with the development of society.English and Chinese are quite different that the former is in Indo-European language family while the latter belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family.However,why we make comparative study of these two languages?That is because we would like to seek something in common to advance the communication of English countries and     

Research–Practice Partnerships to Support the Development of High Quality Mathematics Instruction for All Students

The gap in achievement in mathematics between at-risk students and their more advantaged counterparts is a persistent problem of the U.S. education system. Although some research-based curricula and pedagogy have demonstrated promise in supporting students from diverse backgrounds to develop conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in mathematics, scaling up instructional change across a district organization is a significant challenge. The Middle School Mathematics and the Institutional Setting of Teaching (MIST) Project is a research–practice partnership seeking to understand how large urban school districts can support the development of rigorous and equitable middle-school mathematics instruction at scale. This article enumerates the goals and design of this multiyear, multidistrict partnership, and describes one illustrative example of how our partnership activities informed and supported one district's efforts to improve mathematics instruction over multiple years. General recommendations for district–researcher partnerships are discussed.     

Development of an Attitude Scale to Measure the Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes Towards Nanobiotechnology

Nanobiotechnology, which resulted from the convergence of biotechnology and nanotechnology, is a new field of research, and it has an increasing impact on peoples’ everyday lives. Thus, it is important to measure peoples’ attitudes towards nanobiotechnology, in particular, those who are specifically involved in biology and science education. However, despite the existence of an adequate number of instruments on biotechnology or nanotechnology, for nanobiotechnology, there is no instrument that has been rigorously validated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a nanobiotechnology scale for assessing the undergraduate students’ attitudes. The data were gathered from 236 student teachers enrolled in the departments of biology education and elementary science education. The findings from exploratory factor analysis (EFA) provided evidence for the validity and reliability of the final form of the scale. At total of 36 items were identified and contained within the following four factors, nanobiotechnology awareness, interest in nanobiotechnology, nanobiotechnology education, and the applications of nanobiotechnology. The total variance was 53.021%, and the Cronbach’s alpha for the overall scale was 0.93. The scale was later given to 203 student teachers, the results of which were presented in this study. The results indicated significant differences in gender and department in some of the subscales of the scale. As a result, it is believed that the instrument will be a valuable tool for both instructors and researchers in science education to assess the student teachers’ attitudes about nanobiotechnology.     

Development and validation of an instrument to assess primary school students’ perceptions of the learning environment

Over the past 40 years, numerous instruments have been developed to assess the learning environment for a variety of purposes. Despite this plethora of available surveys, there are few that have been developed for use at the primary school level, and even fewer that have been comprehensively validated. This article describes the development of a long-overdue learning environment survey that is suited to primary school students. Evidence to support the validity of the survey, in terms of translation and criterion validity, was guided by Trochim and Donnelly’s (2006) construct validity framework. A pilot test involving one class of 30 students and interviews with six students was used to examine the face validity of individual items. Analyses of data collected from 609 students in 31 classes supported the convergent, concurrent, discriminant and predictive validity, the results of which were all satisfactory. This article is significant in that it provides educators and researchers with a valid tool to assess the learning environment. The instrument, named the Classroom Climate Questionnaire—Primary (CCQ-P), is described and its practical advantages and limitations are discussed.     

The Immediate Meaning to Ministerial Capacity by Grasping the Main Contradictions of Society——Taking the Party''''s Ministerial History as an Example

在十六大提出的执政“五大能力”中,总揽全局的能力最为重要,而它的基础是党对社会主要矛盾的正确把握,这可从执政史的三次大波动中得到证明。认识和解决社会主要矛盾,不能脱离社会基本矛盾的范围,应以人民的根本利益为中心,并依靠制度的力量。     

Contributions of Teacher–Child Interaction Quality to Chinese Children’s Development in the Early Childhood Years

Research Findings: Growing international evidence points to high-quality teacher–child interactions in early learning environments as key contributors to children’s learning and development. Little is known, however, about the longitudinal effects of these experiences, particularly in the Chinese context. In this study, we addressed the question of such longitudinal effects by examining the predictive effect of classroom teacher–child interaction quality on children’s subsequent academic development in a sample of 3-year-old children in Chinese kindergartens. Utilizing a hierarchical linear modeling approach, we found that teacher–child interaction quality, especially the classroom organization domain, consistently predicted the development of children’s early academic and cognitive skills. Practice or Policy: Findings contribute to the growing international literature on the critical role teacher–child interaction quality plays in children’s learning and development. Implications for policy and professional development are discussed.     

A Task of Strategic Importance to the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone—Development of Human Resources

Development of human resources, especially human talent, is crucial to a country's prosperity. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on the Guiding Policy in the Building of Socialist Spiritual Civilization" pointed out: "Respect for knowledge and people with talent is a problem of major importance that needs to be further resolved in all practical areas of our work." In this new period of the historical development of China, recognition of the importance of knowledge—acknowledgment, from a dialectical, historical point of view, of the role played by talented people in economic construction and of the need for developing human resources—is imperative to the success of Special Economic Zones. This article explores the question of human resource development in the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone (SEZ).