The effects of the Kalamazoo Promise on college choice

On November 10, 2005, then Superintendent of the Kalamazoo Public School System, Janice Brown announced—to the surprise of Kalamazoo’s residents—the beginning of the Kalamazoo Promise. Fully funded by a set of anonymous donors, the Kalamazoo Promise is an urban revitalization program that offers up to four years of free tuition to any public college or university in the state of Michigan for graduates of the Kalamazoo Public School system who meet certain eligibility criteria. Using the subsidy as a source of exogenous variation in the price of college, we use quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the impact of the subsidy on college choice. We find that the Kalamazoo Promise increases the likelihood that students from Kalamazoo Public Schools consider public institutions in Michigan. In addition, we find that the Kalamazoo Promise especially impacts the college choice set of students from families who earn less than $50,000 in annual income.     

高校教师专业决策运行机制的构建研究:有机前提、作用方式与现实可能

高校教师在专业决策领域发挥着愈来愈重要的作用。但如果缺乏一个系统进行整体考评和机理分析的支持,高校教师的专业自主与增权赋能将失去持久的生命力。因此借助系统论的方法论视角,构建高校教师专业决策的内在运行机制十分必要:要素单位的基本构成为教师专业决策运行机制的有机前提;内在程序的有效运作为运行机制的作用方式;利用准则的规限证成来保障教师专业决策的实现可能。它们内在相互联系、相互影响构成了一个有机的整体系统和内在的决策机制,将指引高校教师的专业决策朝着动态平衡与有效合理的理路发展。     

赏析中考决策型应用题

决策型应用题是近年来各省市中考命题热点之一 ,是一类根据已知的信息或数据 ,利用数学知识进行计算或估测 ,从而作出正确的决策 ,主要考查学生运用数学知识解决实际问题的能力。本文以 2 0 0 0年部分省市中考题为例 ,探寻这类问题的特征和求解策略。1　最佳销售决策例 1　 (甘     

学校组织的有限理性及对学校决策的实践反思

反思学校组织现象需要深化对组织特性的研究。学校组织的理性是一种“有限理性”,为此．达成科学决策需要团队组织决策、多元化的决策主体、良好的支持系统、合法的程序以及良好的反馈机制、监督机制。     

贝叶斯决策法的应用

贝叶斯决策方法是解决风险型决策常用的方法。根据决策函数选择的不同,使用贝叶斯决策时可分析货币因素和非货币因素两种情况。当不同方案的期望值相同时,又可根据变异系数的大小进行方案的选择。     

Parental Choice and the Decision to Decharter an Urban,Black, Middle School

ABSTRACT

This article unpacks the decision to decharter a successful urban middle school serving African American students, especially focusing on parental choice in a school caught between two urban reform initiatives: charter schooling and state takeovers of urban districts. Originally chartered by a university, DeCharter became a “school of choice” in an urban district. Though inclusion of all stakeholders motivated charter school decision-making, the decision to decharter excluded them. Working out the intricacies of “choice” and the influences of the policies on stakeholders' interpretations of dechartering illustrates the complexities of parental choice in urban districts and the unintended effects of reform initiatives.     

A Theoretical Framework of Benign Power in School Sector Decision Making: A preface

Benign power goes beyond the more traditional, theoretical frameworks of conflictual power advanced by Dahl (1961, Who Governs?, London, Yale University Press), Bachrach and Baratz (1970, Power and Poverty, New York, Oxford University Press) and Lukes (1974, Power, Basingstoke, Macmillan), where in these cases, power is exercised over another to serve individual ends. It is this focus on serving individual ends at the expense of another which has branded these studies' negative (or malign) definitions of power. But why should conflictual power be seen as negative? Power is regarded as benign when it is exercised in discordant relationships between persons to serve either altruistic and/or collective ends and in which the social and political values of democracy, political freedom and social justice are paramount. This paper is devoted to discussion of the theoretical framework of benign power.     

决策的发展性研究进展

独立自主地做决策对青少年的成长具有重大意义。决策的发展性问题的研究有利于规范青少年的行为，促进其社会化进程。关于决策发展性的争论导致对决策问题的研究不可能获得普遍认同的结论。争论的焦点主要集中在：决策能力的构成成分有哪些；非认知因素、社会情境对青年和成人的决策能力影响是否是相同的；决策发展的本质是什么。综观各个理论派别的观点并做简要的评论，由此可以展望有关决策的发展性未来研究的方向。     

The Play School

译文:玩上学的游戏再见,瑞奇。比尔说,我要上学去了,再见!再见!再见,瑞奇。琳达说,我也要上学去了,再见!再见!瑞奇说:跳进来,午夜。跳到我的车上来,搭着我的车, 我们也要上学去了。再见,莱格丝,瑞奇说,我们要上学去了。再见!再见!     

The Common School

The paper is concerned with the conflicting principles revealed respectively by those who argue for the common school and by those who seek to promote a system of schools that, though maintained by the state, might reflect the different religious beliefs within the community. The philosopher, John Dewey, is appealed to in defence of the common school, though similar ideas are reflected in the developing comprehensive ideal in Britain.     

校车

我们坐在校车上,一路上学去。我们坐在校车上,一路上学去。从新期一到新期五的每一天,我们一路上探望朋友。车停下来上来一位新面孔。     

The Singapore School and the School Excellence Model

Nation', schools in Singapore are now asked to develop themselves into excellent schools. To support this change, the way that schools are being appraised has been changed since 2000. The school today is asked to do self-appraisal using the new School Excellence Model (SEM), which is adapted from a business excellence model. This article discusses the SEM, its major implications to the leadership and management of schools in Singapore and the areas still to be addressed in the implementation of the model. In particular, school leaders should focus on the substance and not the form of the SEM, be systemic in their approach to quality improvement in schools and truly lead the way by being the first believing and practicing member of this movement. Key Words: excellence, leadership, quality, school, self-appraisal     

决策逻辑的图论模型

通过定义二部图上的几个操作运算,利用图论理论提出决策逻辑的一种模型,并证明了它和框架语义模型的等价性。最后研究了决策逻辑系统的粗糙性的语义。     

论教育民主决策的价值

教育民主决策的价值与日俱增,其特性具有客观实在性、积极促进性、广泛深刻性和开放发展性;其基础是人类社会民主化取向、教育决策的复杂性与困难性和人性的积极取向;其内容是促进教育科学决策、民主决策、学习型教育组织的形成和人生价值的实现;其实现的条件是要以人为本,服务于人的发展、实施全员培养、构建和完善教育民主决策机制。