Among the eminent,the aspiring,and the young: A short history of new world writing

New World Writing, a magazine founded by New American Library in 1952, quickly became an important vehicle for liberal intellectual and literary thought. In addition to providing an outlet for new writing, the magazine became an important acquisitions tool for NAL. Throughout its lifetime, New World Writing remained a showcase for many of the finest writers of the 1950s, including Christopher Isherwood, Louis Auchincloss, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, and Gore Vidal. He is the author of Under Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacksand Heavy Traffic and High Culture: The New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper. He is working on a study of American literary agents     

英国与“四国公约”（1933．3-7）

1933年7月英、法、德、意四国“谅解与合作公约”的缔结，是希特勒上台后欧洲大国间第一次外交互动的产物。英国出于挽救裁军大会的考虑，对意大利倡议的“四国公约”极力推崇，并在协调法德分歧、促成公约的缔结等方面发挥了主导作用。虽然“四国公约”最终因法德两国政府拒绝批准而成为一纸空文，但英国在“四国公约”问题上的表现，却从一个侧面折射出德国纳粹势力上台初期，英国对外政策的基本走向：即力图通过促成普遍裁军来实现欧洲大国间的和解，从而避免可能的战争风险。     

Can a Teacher‐Led State Assessment System Work?

Recent implementation of Nebraska's Standards-based Teacher-led Assessment and Reporting System (STARS) introduced a unique opportunity to examine the benefits and drawbacks of a teacher-led state assessment system. STARS is unique among state assessment systems in that statewide tests are replaced by locally developed assessments designed by teachers. Benefits of this system are found to be greater teacher use of results for instructional planning, greater diagnostic utility of the assessments, and gains in assessment literacy. Disadvantages include the time-consuming and stressful nature of creating localized assessments. Compatibility of STARS with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act are discussed.     

试论多媒体教学对教师的素质要求

长期以来,教师已习惯于一本书、一支粉笔、一块黑板的封闭式教学环境。随着多媒体技术进入教育领域,现代教育技术必将对传统的课堂教学产生深刻的影响,因而对现代教师的素质也就提出了更高、更新的要求。教师只有不断提高自身的职业道德素质、业务理论素质、科学研究素质,才能适应现代教育发展的需要。     

International Early Childhood Resources from Educational Research Abstracts (ERA)

The aim was to examine cross-cultural variation in linguistic responsiveness to young children in 10 English-speaking mother–child dyads and 10 Italian-speaking mother– child dyads. All 20 children were late talkers who possessed delays in expressive vocabulary development but age-appropriate cognitive and receptive language skills. Dyads were filmed in 15 minute free play contexts, which were transcribed and coded for measures of maternal linguistic input (e.g. rate, MLU, labels, expansions) and child language productivity (e.g. utterances, different words used). The results revealed that the Italian mothers used more utterances, spoke more quickly and used a more diverse vocabulary than the Canadian mothers. The Italian children mirrored their mothers and also used more utterances and a more diverse vocabulary than the Canadian children. Mothers in both groups used similar percentages of responsive labels and expansions. However, Italian mothers responded to fewer of their children's vocalisations, using a smaller percentage of imitations and interpretations than the Canadian mothers. Correlations between maternal input and children's language productivity revealed that contingent language measures (e.g. imitations, interpretations, expansions) were related to high levels of productivity in children in both cultural groups. The results support the use of language interventions based on increasing maternal responsiveness for these children at the one-word stage of language development. They also point to differences that may be culturally based. For example, Italian mothers use faster rates of interaction and appear to have higher expectations for their children's verbal participation in interaction. This is reflected in higher rates of language production from their children, even though children in both cultural groups have similar vocabulary sizes.     

解读学分制下的体育教学俱乐部模式

体育教学俱乐部模式较好地体现了学分制改革对体育教学的要求，从教学模式的指导思想、主题、目标、策略、内容、评价等方面来解读学分制下的体育教学俱乐部模式的内涵，旨在推进学分制下的体育教学改革。     

诗经字法探微举隅

诗经三百零五篇,包容、再现了自西周初始及以后五百年间的社会生活,语言简洁成了特点之一。以简洁的语言表现丰富复杂的社会生活,何以能做到呢?探究其用字之法,从中可以找到答案。 以“子”字用法为例。全诗“子”凡454见。 “子”,篆字为,《说文》:“十一月阳气动,万物滋,人以为称,象形。”段玉裁注云:“本阳气动万物滋之称,万物莫灵于人,故因假借以为人之称。”又说:“象万物滋生之形,亦象人首与手足之形也。”     

论公共图书馆网站建设

简要论述公共图书馆网站目前现状及存在的问题，并对发展公共图书馆网站从设立建站目标、受众定位、深化网站内容与服务、页面设计等方面作了有益的探讨。     

视频数据库及其应用

视频数据库是多媒体数据库研究的继承和深入。本文阐述了视频数据库研究的主要问题，介绍了视频数据库系统的发展，并通过Hampapur提出的视频数据库的框架，旨在向读者展示视频数据库的优越性以及在各方面的应用。