The Centros Concertados in Spain, Parental Demand and Implications for Equity

In Spain, the exercise of choice by parents of a suitable school for their children is not practised by all families in the same way. The evidence shows that an increasing social polarisation and a substantial disequilibrium in schooling are taking place in compulsory education. There is a high concentration of immigrant students in public schools in contrast with what happened in the centros concertados (private schools with public funding). This situation is especially unbalanced in some Autonomous Communities, such as the Community of Madrid, Catalonia, Valencia and Andalusia. The inequalities in the distribution of students in the network of public schools and private schools financed by public funds are producing significant responses from parents, teachers, experts, and also from other social groups. Some of the proposals made by different experts and by the Spanish Ministry of Education are analysed in order to reach to a quality education in more equitable conditions for all students.     

Certainty of Punishment and Criminal Thinking: Do the Rational and Non-rational Parameters of a Student’s Decision to Cheat on an Exam Interact?

The purpose of this study was to determine whether criminal thinking interacts with the rational requirements of human decision-making in a group of college students. A convenience sample of 315 undergraduates (114 males, 201 females) completed self-report measures of criminal thinking and estimated their likelihood of cheating on an exam given different levels of certainty of apprehension. A repeated-measures analysis of covariance revealed that students were significantly more likely to seize on the opportunity to cheat when the certainty of getting caught was 10% than when it was 50% and that students with higher levels of criminal thinking were more likely to take the opportunity to cheat than students with lower levels of criminal thinking. In addition, students exhibiting moderate proactive criminal thinking and moderate to high reactive criminal thinking were significantly less likely to be deterred from cheating when the odds of getting caught were low.     

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。     

大学组织社会使命的理性选择

大学作为一种独特的社会组织,必须承担一定的历史责任与社会使命。大学的使命与其它社会组织使命一样通过组织的宗旨,理想、精神与实践具体表现。不同的时代有不同的政治、经济、文化发展需要,不同的社会利益集团对大学的要求也有很大差异。面对现代社会复杂多样的需求,大学应该如何回应?有适应才有生存,有批判才有引领,大学必须谨慎地回答,理性地选择。     

Pricing policy and the college choice process

Following the presentation of a marketing management paradigm for higher educational institutions, this paper discuses some aspects of the pricing policy process in colleges and universities. A statistical model of the college choice process is developed, and some empirical results related to the effects of price, among other factors, on the collegechoice decision-making behavior process of high school seniors are presented and interpreted. The two most important factors affecting the college choice process are seen to be college quality and price-related considerations. Marketing implications of these results are discussed.Presented at the Annual Forum of the Association For Institutional Research, Houston, Texas, May 1978.     

A different type of charter school: in prestige charters,a rise in cachet equals a decline in access

This paper seeks to elucidate a specific type of charter school. While much has been written about school choice and the expanding charter school segment, a growing and important number of charter schools do not fit in to the common understanding of these schools. Distinct from many of their counterparts, prestige charter schools have the following two features: elements which foster a reputation similar to that of elite private schools and a student population demographically distinct from local public district schools – whereby the prestige charters serve a disproportionate number of advantaged families. The prestige elements include: founding by advantaged community members; parental involvement; wait lists; popularity with advantaged professionals; high test scores; and niche themes. The authors will show through two in-depth case studies that prestige charter schools work hand-in-hand with gentrification in urban neighborhoods, and result in racial and class segregation and inequality. This paper examines how these charter schools struggle when a rise in prestige coincides with a decline in access for low-income students. The authors recommend that given the current system of school choice, prestige charter schools must use tools and mechanisms to maintain demographic diversity and educational equity which is in the best interest of all children.     

全人教育思潮的兴起与教育目标的转变

全人教育作为一种教育思潮,在联结、整体性和存在三个基本概念和原则的基础上,全人教育的倡导者认为教育不仅要实现个体在智力和职业能力方面的发展,而且要实现个体在生理、社会、道德、伦理、创造性、精神各方面的发展,重视教育过程中的经验、选择与合作.这对教育目标产生了很大的影响,引发了教育目标的转变.     

Choosing schools,choosing selves: exploring the influence of parental identity and biography on the school choice process in Delhi,India

Drawing on qualitative interview data from a group of lower income parents in Delhi, India, this paper focuses on the dynamic relationship between parental choice of a particular school and parents’ own identity construction. The data indicate that choice of school is for some parents a symbolic expression of identity, influenced by family dynamics and parents’ educational biographies. The paper outlines the concept of ‘forging solidarities’ and proposes it as an alternative way of understanding school enrolment decisions that recognises the social significance of such choices for the wider family unit. More generally, as school choice mechanisms in various forms become an increasingly important part of the educational landscape in many countries, the findings draw attention to the sociocultural nature of choice in real-world market settings and the contribution of schooling choices to processes of social and educational segregation.     

增城市旅游业发展的SWOT分析及战略选择

增城市地处经济发达的珠三角的边缘地区,旅游资源丰富,近年来旅游业得到了较快发展,但也暴露出很多不足,旅游资源的价值没有得到充分体现.文章在对增城市经济、社会发展现状以及旅游资源实地调查的基础上,借用国外的SWOT分析方法,对增城市旅游发展的优势、劣势、机遇和挑战进行了具体分析,并提出增城市旅游业发展战略.