Parents and Schools: Partnerships That Count

Children with limited English proficiency are known to be at higher risk of school failure than their peers. Risk starts early, and the achievement lag of these children often widens with age and progression in the educational system. This study attempted to determine the effects of a 2-way bilingual education program on the literacy development of at-risk kindergarten students who had lower English proficiency and were in a higher failure risk bracket than a comparison group who had higher initial English competence and participated in regular education. Students in the experimental group were instructed in English approximately 70% of the time and in Spanish approximately 30% of the time. At the end of the 1st grade, no statistically significant differences were found between the 2 groups on the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) or a combination of 6 other indicators of English literacy development.     

Strengthening Community Schools Through University Partnerships

Given the mounting call for academic achievement gains in America's public schools—particularly urban schools labeled “failing”—the need for community engagement to tackle a host of underlying social challenges warrants the resources of the nation's colleges and universities (Harkavy & Hartley, 2009). Because colleges and universities are often underutilized anchors of resources in communities, coordinated alignment of K-12 and higher education goals can create a seamless pipeline of educational attainment for communities challenged to produce high academic achievement. Higher education's engagement with community schools further helps to address the whole child and their families in K-12 education by expanding the opportunities for the students and community to access necessary support services. Drawing upon experiences of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and collaboration with its adjacent neighborhoods, this article illustrates the transformative and relevant impact of university and community engagement, as well as new pedagogical approaches to teaching, learning, and training. This article reflects upon the experiences of IUPUI and nearby George Washington Community High School as it can uniquely serve as a roadmap for other school community/university partnerships that are interested in embarking upon a similar education reform path.     

Extending the Possibilities of Multicultural Community Partnerships in Urban Public Schools

To combat the sociocultural tensions that the city of Changeton is facing, an effort is being made by the school district to create a systemwide multicultural education program. A volunteer group has been established to shape what it hopes will provide a foundation for working toward mitigating the cultural strife that plagues the schools and community. Through a 3-year qualitative study, this research has documented the developments in the committee's work. The specific area addressed here is the group's efforts to create a partnership between the school and the community. This article provides practical ideas to urban educators interested in such an endeavor and shows that the critical problem is that parental involvement is often not recognized as being determined within specific and unequal relations of power—that attempts at school/community partnerships are often based on white, middle-class assumptions about parents' outlooks, language, resources, and time available for schoolwork. The focus and intent here are to acknowledge that it is crucial to recognize the multiplicity of groups and issues that are present in every town and city. Without being open to all differences of opinion andperspective, the idea of community involvement and public deliberation is fruitless.     

半价以下:今天你“团”了吗?

2008年11月,团购网站Groupon在美国成立——其命名由团体(group)和优惠券(coupon)合并而来——网上团购风马上席卷全美,而今更在全世界遍地开花。团购是继偷菜和微博之后又一个成为国人现实生活一部分的网络新生事物,在繁荣发展之余也产生了不少消费纠纷。3·15临近,小编提醒各位团友:团购有风险,点击要谨慎!     

关于网络广告的欺骗性接触形式的思考

关注新近出现的欺骗性接触形式的网络广告,分析其性质及表现方式,并从广告主体利益、相关法律法规、网络监管等方面分析产生这种网络广告形式的原因,进而从道德伦理方面对欺骗性接触形式的网络广告进行思考。文章分析了网络广告形式的创新及其原则,并结合社会各界的反应,认为网络广告欺骗性接触形式的前景并不乐观,创新应符合社会的道德伦理规范。     

大学与中小学伙伴合作关系建立的条件及过程

大学与中小学伙伴合作关系的建立是改进教师专业教育的重要途径.本文分析了大学与中小学伙伴合作关系建立的条件:重新认识大学与中小学的伙伴合作、中小学教师宽泛的普通教育及高质量的专业教育、良好的政策环境;探讨了大学与中小学伙伴合作关系建立的步骤:确定合作伙伴的选择标准、依据标准选择场地、签订正式的合作协议.     

Transforming Education through School-community Partnerships: Lessons from Four Rural Early Childhood Development Schools in Zimbabwe

This article presents and discusses the findings of a multi-case study that was conducted in four remote rural early childhood development (ECD) schools located in the Chiredzi district, in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. The article explored how school heads enhanced resources mobilisation in remote rural ECD schools through school-community partnerships in order to improve teaching and learning conditions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the school heads, deputy heads and teachers in charge. Document reviews and observations were also used to augment data from interviews. Invitational leadership was used as an analytic tool for the study. The findings suggest that the school heads succeeded to some degree in bringing parents and various stakeholders to the ECD schools to deal with the challenges facing them. Various strategies were used including tapping into local knowledge to ensure that parents who could afford to pay fees managed to do so.     

The Lure of Psychology for Education and Educational Research

Psychology has penetrated many domains of society and its vocabulary and discourse has become part of our everyday conversations. It not only carries with it the promise that it will deliver insights into human behaviour, but it is also believed that it can address many of the problems human beings are confronted with. As a discipline it thrives in the present climate of performativity, where more attention is given to means than to ends. The article observes first that for education and thus for educational research, though psychology's approach can be valuable, other theoretical stances are also necessary. It then analyses why psychology may be attractive nowadays in the educational field and identifies its prestige in academia, partly arising from its professionalization, but above all the use of a particular method and the focus on certain contents. This has historical antecedents, and so some illustrations are given of previous developments, paying attention as well to the controversies in which educational psychology has been involved in the past, as well as to the need of biographical research, which warns us to be careful with generalizations. It is argued that a more balanced approach (invoking the particularities of the situation as well as a broader concept of practical rationality) is required for the study of education and that educational researchers therefore should resist the tendency to see psychology as the default auxiliary science of education; instead they should reclaim their territory, do justice to the responsibility that is required and highlight the importance of understanding social practices to a large extent in terms of reasons and intentions.     

认定虚假广告的三个要件

虚假广告的认定必须符合三个基本构成要件:广告的陈述或表示必须有欺诈消费者的倾向或可能;必须能欺诈相当数量的消费大众;在欺诈消费大众上须有实质重要性。正确地认定虚假广告的要件,可以弥补法律规定的空白,减少法官的自由裁量,对于促进企业依法经营具有十分重要的理论价值和现实意义。     

网络诱致性与青少年网络道德建设

青少年是网络社会的重要主体,他们在享受网络带来的快乐的同时,其道德情感也发生着深刻的变化。网络技术是一把双刃剑,它的诱致性对于身心发育不成熟的青少年有很强的吸引力和渗透力,是造成青少年网络道德问题的重要原因。针对网络的诱致性,必须加强青少年网络道德建设。     

诱惑侦查之法律规制

诱惑侦查是刑事诉讼中一种特殊的侦查手段,通常分为"犯意诱发型"和"机会提供型"两种类型。本文对诱惑侦查的概念、分类等问题作一简要评述,并对如何完善诱惑侦查进行阐述,明确了该侦查手段的适用主体、范围、条件、程序等。     

关于创建中国会展旅游品牌的思考

作为一种新兴的旅游产品，会展旅游是世界旅游业重要的客源市场和争相竞争的目标市场。未来会展旅游市场的竞争将更多地表现为品牌的竞争，创建中国会展旅游品牌具有重要意义。在分析中国旅游品牌建设面临的主要问题的基础上，提出了创建中国会展旅游品牌的对策与措施。     

Opportunities and Challenges in Collaborative Reform Practice: School–Community Partnerships through Art in Korean Schools

The Korean government’s policy toward art in schools and educational autonomy has recently undergone major directional changes, with the Ministry of Education (MOE) encouraging individual schools to find their own ways to become more self‐regenerating, especially by developing community partnerships through art. This recently published policy direction has the potential to challenge traditional school practice as it demands an initiative role of schools and the active involvement of teachers in building partnerships with local communities. Concerned about the impact of the new school art policy on practice, this article attempts to clarify the opportunities and challenges involved in the expected collaborative reform practice by examining the outcomes reported by pilot schools based on their first year of implementing the new school art policy. To this end, this article first identifies the distinctive aspects of the new policy from previous studies on school–community partnerships developed in Korea over the past decade. This is followed by an identification of practical issues and needs by reviewing the outcomes of recent survey results on the perceptions of teachers who participated in conventional school–community partnership programmes. These results will be compared to the problems found in the outcomes reported by pilot schools. Findings will be discussed to assess implications and provide suggestions. This contextual analysis of practitioners’ responses to new art‐based collaborative reform practices developing in Korea may contribute to an expansion of international discussions about educational reform through art.     

孤独症儿童在欺骗情境中的行为判断及意图理解

研究采用动画形式呈现欺骗故事情境(欺骗他人/欺骗自我) ,考察孤独症儿童对欺骗行为及意图的理解。结果表明,在欺骗行为判断的问题上,孤独症和匹配组儿童的表现没有差异。孤独症儿童对于欺骗他人的意图理解差于正常儿童,也不如他们自己对欺骗自我的意图理解。两组儿童在欺骗任务上的表现提示,孤独症儿童通过错误信念任务并不等于达到与正常儿童一样的心理理解水平,欺骗他人与欺骗自我的意图理解可能基于不同的机制。     

Education as spiritual critique: Dwayne Huebner's Lure of the Transcendent

This article presents findings of small‐scale in‐depth qualitative research into the perspectives on history amongst adolescent children of minority ethnic backgrounds living in inner‐cities in England. The research aimed to elicit, first, the narratives of British history that children from minority ethnic backgrounds hold; and, second, the relationship between the history children learn from home and that learned at school. In addressing these research questions, this paper contributes to wider discourses of what history should be taught in contemporary multi‐ethnic settings, as well as how teachers in classrooms can navigate the tensions between history and memory cultures. Although the research was conducted in the English context, the issues it raises are pertinent elsewhere.     

Student Scientist Partnerships: Shrewd Maneuvers

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing, that keeps bright people at it, and that ought to be at the center of science teaching. I believe that the worst thing that has happened to science education is that the great fun has gone out of it—Very few see science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to catch close views of things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. (Thomas, 1981)