Polices of promise and practices of limit: Singapore’s literacy education policy landscape and its impact on one school programme

This paper is about the interaction between policy and practice, and about how competing policies contributed to a paradoxical tension within that interaction in one school. Within a paradigm of educational renewal, the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) has initiated a number of policies designed to give schools autonomy in designing and implementing programmes to achieve optimal educational outcomes for its students. Among these are READ! Singapore, Teach Less, Learn More and the School Excellence Model. In this context, we review an MOE initiated Extensive Reading (ER) programme in one school. Despite such innovative policies, Dewey Secondary School’s [The names of the school and individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.] pedagogical and literacy practices continue to be largely influenced by other dominant features of Singapore’s and the school’s own educational culture—an exam-oriented focus that prioritises outcome and skill-based pedagogy and the school’s historical practice of restricting literacies. Competing policies as interpreted by the school and diverse stakeholders result in a morphed ER programme—an adaptation of a reading programme that reflects the programme intent overtly but one that collides at other times, and as a result, is pulled in different directions. The story is, thus, one of ‘policies of promise and practices of limit’.     

论汝颍文化

汝南和颍川在先秦时本属于不同的文化区,然而,随着战国以后各地交往的密切以及国家的最终统一,两个地区在文化上逐渐呈现出融合的趋势,并进而形成了一种兼得多种文化之长的文化形态--汝颍文化.汝颍文化发端于先秦,形成于两汉,发扬光大于东汉、三国、两晋南北朝,对当时政治、经济、社会的发展产生了重大的影响.     

公务员英语口语的特点探析

公务员英语口语有六个特征,即语言的职业性、用词的委婉性、表达的准确性、具体、简明、礼貌.正确理解和掌握公务员英语口语的语言特点,用以指导公务员在公务活动中灵活运用英语口语,促进世界向更顺利的方向发展.     

安全电子商务协议的形式化分析

阐述了安全电子商务协议的安全属性,介绍了重要的安全电子商务协议,总结了近年来安全电子商务协议形式化分析方法的研究进展情况。文章最后对该领域主要的研究方向进行了展望。     

新时代大学生党史教育的现实意义及实践路径

中国共产党的历史是一部带领中华民族谋求独立、富强、复兴的历史。党史不仅是党发展的过程史,更是共产党人思想、文化在斗争与挫折中逐步成熟发展的历史。新时代背景下大学生党史教育,是全面贯彻落实党的教育方针,提高学生思想政治素质的重要方式,也是巩固全党全国人民团结奋斗的思想基础和重要途径。完善高校党史教育,能够让学生在系统了解中国共产党的奋斗历程中培养民族意识和历史使命,通过党史的感召培养深化学生党性原则、政治方向,并自觉自愿向党和社会主义靠拢,将个人前途命运置于党、国家、民族的前途命运中,从而找到正确的社会方向和自我位置求得自身发展。通过健全党史教育机制、优化党史教育环境、打造专业党史教师队伍等系列工程,推进党史教育在高校运行,发挥党史育人功能。     

乡村振兴背景下乡村教师传承乡土文化的责任、困境与路向

乡土文化传承是"新时代"乡村振兴的重要内涵,而教育是文化传承的前沿阵地,文化传承是教育的内在功能,所以乡村文化振兴离不开乡村教育的助力.作为乡土社会的文化精英,乡村教师担承着时代赋予的教育责任,即在承续和改造乡土文化以及培养"文化人"的过程中推动乡村振兴.然而,在乡村发展的特殊时代节点,乡村教师传承文化的责任在多种张力的交互影响下面临着"无知""无情"和"无能"的巨大挑战.面对乡村社会结构调整带来的阶段性功能障碍,乡村教师应从"了解乡土""热爱乡土"和"改造乡土"三个方面,探索文化传承的教育作为,贡献振兴乡村文化的个人智慧和努力.     

用英语进行理工科专业课教学的探索与实践

本文从实践角度出发,阐述了在对本科生专业课进行英语教学过程中遵循的教学原则和实施的教学方法。有别于以前双语教学的尝试,也不同于仅仅课堂上使用英语教学的方法,本文提出的"纯"英语教学模式是在教与学的各个环节上均采用英文方式。通过"感性"教学的手段体现了授课与实践相结合的理念,收到了很好的结果。     

The Sensitivity of Value-Added Teacher Effect Estimates to Different Mathematics Achievement Measures

Using longitudinal data from a cohort of middle school students from a large school district, we estimate separate "value-added" teacher effects for two subscales of a mathematics assessment under a variety of statistical models varying in form and degree of control for student background characteristics. We find that the variation in estimated effects resulting from the different mathematics achievement measures is large relative to variation resulting from choices about model specification, and that the variation within teachers across achievement measures is larger than the variation across teachers. These results suggest that conclusions about individual teachers' performance based on value-added models can be sensitive to the ways in which student achievement is measured.     

6061-T5铝合金搅拌摩擦焊接头组织和力学性能

采用搅拌摩擦焊技术对6061-T5铝合金进行焊接,分析了焊接速度对接头成形、微观结构及力学性能的影响.结果表明:随着焊接速度的增加,沉淀相固溶度下降,晶粒细化;焊接速度过大时,热输入不足,呈现原始态组织.当转速为800 r/min,焊接速度为60 mm/min时,接头成形良好,抗拉强度达到最大值.采用合适的搅拌摩擦焊工艺参数,6061-T5铝合金能实现可靠的连接.     

中国房地产市场存在经济泡沫但并非泡沫经济

从经济泡沫和泡沫经济概念的区别入手,对比了美、泰、日三国房地产泡沫经济的原因及其特点,得出我国房地产市场并不符合泡沫经济,不会出现明显的“破裂”或“猛跌”的结论。说明我国房地产出现的泡沫是由真实需求支撑的一般性泡沫,表现的是供需两旺的态势。