The price of admission: Who gets into private school,and how much do they pay?

I analyze how elementary and secondary private schools decide which students to admit from their applicant pool using mechanism design theory. The problem for an individual private school of who to admit and how much to charge in tuition, is complicated by the existence of peer-effects: the value students place on attending school is increasing with the average ability of the entire class at that school. This feature, coupled with the fact that students can always attend public school for free, places constraints on the types of classes the private school can admit. In my model, students have an ability type that is known to the school through testing, as well as a wealth type that is private information. Students report their wealth to the school and on the basis of the results from the ability test and wealth reports, the school institutes an allocation rule and a payment rule. Allocation rules which only admit all high ability students and no others, or all high wealth students and no others are not feasible. I utilize a simple example to show how in a revenue-maximizing allocation, the private school always under-admits the highest ability students relative to the allocation rule that maximizes social welfare.     

一个人追梦

我是一个平凡却又习惯孤独的女孩,我常说自己是一条蛇,一条躲在角落里静静地做着自己事情的小蛇。由于像蛇那样占有欲很强,所以我青涩的恋情以失败告终,从那以后,我狠狠地关上了自己的心门,自己不出来,也不让任何人进去。我压抑自己的一切热情,我躲在角落里独自舔伤,独自落泪……Tom Felton,那个有着阳光般笑容的瘦削的男孩闯入了我的生活,融化了我那颗因受伤而变得冰冷的心。Tom因为演哈利·波特里面的那个坏男孩而出名。在别人看来,我这个乖乖女应该喜欢英雄人物哈利·波特的扮演者Daniel才对,而我毅然地选择了坏坏的Tom。或许因为我是…     

低碳发展方案编制指南(第四部分)——实现低碳增长的政策和行动之工业部门的行动

实现低碳增长的政策和行动将对每个行业的政策和行动、政策表述、衡量标准、温室气体减排潜力以及政策和行动的成本效益进行介绍。本节介绍工业部门的行动。这里所表述的工业部门的政策和行动包括了以下的直接行动:制定目标和标准。这些直接行动由以下的政策和行动所支持:财政激励、能源审计、对标、信息传播。     

低碳发展方案编制指南(全文完)

实现低碳增长的政策和行动将对每个行业的政策和行动、政策表述、衡量标准、温室气体减排潜力以及政策和行动的成本效益进行介绍。     

Elementary reading attitude survey (ERAS) scores in academically talented students

This study investigated the reliability and structural validity of Elementary Reading Attitude Survey ([ERAS]; McKenna and Kear, 1990) scores in 575 academically talented students attending an academic summer program. Results indicated that ERAS Academic and Recreational scores had satisfactory internal consistency coefficients, and that participants’ reading attitudes were near the top of the normative distribution of ERAS scores. Exploratory factor analysis of ERAS scores supported two factors measuring academic and recreational reading attitudes, and significantly higher scores on reading attitudes were found for girls at three grade levels, with medium to large effect sizes.     

Ambiguity as persuasion: The Vietnam Veterans memorial

Visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial generally are deeply moved by it—regardless of their positions on the Vietnam War itself. In this essay, five visual features of the memorial are identified that enable it to appeal to virtually all visitors: (a) It violates the conventional form of war memorials; (b) It assumes a welcoming stance; (c) It provides little information to the visitor; (d) It focuses attention on those who did not survive the war; and (e) It generates multiple referents for its visual components. The effectiveness of the memorial suggests that it may serve as a model for contemporary anti‐war rhetoric.     

Early Care and Education Matters: A Conceptual Model for Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Integrating the Key Constructs of Knowledge,Reflection, and Practice

There has been a great deal of discourse in the field of early care and education concerning the experiences, skills, competencies, and education level needed by early childhood teachers to ensure that quality teaching and learning take place in the early years. The purpose of this article is to describe an early childhood teacher preparation program developed by a Child and Family Development Department at a large, urban, state-funded university in the hopes that we can further the discourse on how the field can ensure quality teaching and learning in both ECE and university classrooms. We propose a conceptual model that is built around three key constructs: knowledge, reflection, and practice and describe our approach to preparing early childhood educators. Using qualitative data from student reflections and course syllabi and quantitative data on the experiences and perceptions of graduating seniors, we hope to present promising practices in early childhood teacher education and provide support for our contention that the quality of early childhood teacher education matters.     

我国高校辅导员专业化发展中的问题与对策研究

随着社会分工的不断细化,高校辅导员职业逐渐呈现出专业化的发展趋势。它要求辅导员从事务性工作中提升出来,成长为学生思想政治教育与管理工作的理论研究者和方法论探索者。这符合新形势下高校学生思想政治教育与管理工作发展的新要求。本文客观分析了我国高校辅导员专业化发展的背景与现状,总结了其中还存在的一些问题,并在此基础上从教育政策、高校资源以及辅导员自身三个层面有针对性地提出了问题突破的对策。