Parent Resource Centers: An Innovative Mechanism for Parental Involvement in School Choice Decisions

This qualitative investigation reports on the use of Parent Resource Centers (PRCs) as a mechanism for parental involvement in public school choice decisions. Interviews with parents and staff at seven PRCs in Florida revealed that PRCs employ multiple strategies to communicate choice information to parents: community-, school- and media-based outreach; outreach to hard-to-reach parents; and collaboration with other agencies. Personalized assistance and provision of choice materials are also highlighted as useful strategies. Results indicate that there is low level of awareness about school choice options among parents and thus clear and consistent communication of choice information is needed. While PRCs hold promise for increasing parental engagement in school choice, structural and systemic barriers to exercising choice decisions such as transportation and collaboration between schools and PRCs should be addressed. Methodologically, this study illustrates the power of triangulating data from parents and PRCs to illuminate our understanding of how parents make choice decisions.     

Studying parental involvement and university access and choice: An ‘interacting multiple capitals’ model

Capital‐embedded parental involvement in education is essential in enhancing university enrolment and maximising the educational potentials for equality and excellence. Previous studies in this field have mainly utilised Perna's ( 2000 , 2006 ) model, which defines parental involvement as social capital and identifies the additive influences of different types of capital (including social, economic and cultural capital) on university access and choice. Yet, little research to date theorises and disaggregates the interplay among various types of capital as well as the multiplicative capital effects on enrolment. This study addressed this gap. We proposed an ‘interacting multiple capitals’ (IMC) model and hypothesised that parental social capital could moderate the effects of cultural and economic capital on entry to university. To validate the model, a pilot survey was administered to 216 university students of Korean ethnicity in China and investigated the models of involvement adopted by Korean parents in the context of the increasing labour mobility of the Korean adult population. Moderated multiple regression analysis was employed and the results confirmed the hypothesis that capital effects upon university access and choice were multiplicative in nature, with social capital moderating the cultural capital influence on students’ educational aspirations. The study findings show that the interaction of various types of capital variables is sufficiently statistically significant to warrant future research and policy and practical discussion of how to promote parental involvement in university preparation and planning.     

译者中心论与翻译文本的选择--析林语堂英译《浮生六记》

运用"译者中心"论,从译者与原文、原语世界及译语世界三者的关系入手,分析林语堂选择英译《浮生六记》的原因,指出林语堂以翻译生态环境的'身份'具体实施对翻译文本的选择,体现了译者在翻译过程中的中心地位。     

应用两阶段二分式虚拟市场评价法消除环境价值货币评估的偏差

虚拟市场评价法（CVM）是目前环境经济价值货币评估中最为广泛应用的方法。经过几十年的发展，经济理论基础已日趋完善，但受可能发生的偏差的影响较大，其准确性受到一些学者的质疑。当前国际上最为推崇的两阶段二分式选择法可以最大限度地减少偏差。本文讨论了虚拟市场评价法以及两阶段二分式选择法的原理，推演了应用两阶段二分式选择法计算支付意愿金额（WTP）的数学模型，并应用京津风沙源治理工程环境价值评价案例，详细说明如何应用两阶段二分式虚拟市场评价模型设计调查问卷，并据此估算支付意愿金额。     

研究性课程目标的价值选择与观念误区

研究性课程作为一种新的课程形态，既涉及到课程目标的取向。又涉及到课程目标的价值选择，因此，准确定位研究性课程的目标，正确作出课程目标的价值选择。克服研究性课程在开发与实施中的各种观念误区，是当前乃至今后中小学研究性课程开发与实施的首要前提。     

‘Trying to find the extra choices’: migrant parents and secondary school choice in Greater Manchester

This article, based on qualitative research in Greater Manchester, examines the experience of migrants in navigating the education system, and in particular in choosing secondary schools for their children. There has been extensive research on the process of choosing schools since the policy reforms of the 1980s, but none has examined how the process of choosing a secondary school is impacted by the material and affective impact of migration. The article argues that migrants’ experience is embedded in gendered, classed and racialised processes and that, despite the heterogeneity of the category, migrants often face particular barriers in negotiating the school system. Nonetheless it also explores the importance put on education by the migrants who were interviewed and the active labour they engage in to try and achieve the best results for their children.     

简论幸福和幸福原则

幸福是对人的一生具有重大意义的需要、欲望、目的得到实现的心理体验。幸福的三大原则是:意识正确,即人们对幸福的意识与幸福的客观本性相符;选择适当,即人们对幸福的选择与自己的才、力、命、德相一致;行动原则,即人们追求幸福的努力与修养自己的品德相结合。     

外语教学的语言学顺应理论基础

随着语用学的发展,出现了一些语言运用方面的繁杂现象.Verschueren 认为这是语用学的困境,应该有一个连贯、统一的理论来统辖语用学的研究.语言顺应理论的建立正是为了实现这一目的.通过对 Verschueren 的语言顺应理论作一概述与阐释,并结合第二语言习得理论,分析、讨论外语教学的一些问题.     

提升就业能力:缓解大学生就业难的重要选择

高等教育大众化条件下的大学生就业形势日趋严峻,缓解大学生就业结构性矛盾的难题需要不断增强毕业生的就业能力。合理调适专业、坚持特色育人、强化就业指导是现行教育体制下提升大学生就业能力的有效举措。