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.     

收入差距和地区差距对福建省农村居民消费结构的影响

分析居民内部因收入差距而产生的消费行为的不同,将能更科学地反映居民消费结构的真实情况,以期能为有关部门制定符合现阶段的居民消费政策,为促进经济发展提供参考。利用平行数据模型分析收入差距和地区差距对福建省农村居民消费结构的影响,同时估计了基于收入差距的各项消费支出的消费函数,并就估计结果进行分析。     

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.     

解构党的民族区域自治

与时俱进的民族区域自治孕育了国家的统一、繁荣与稳定。我国实践中的民族区域自治具有一体多元性。所谓“一体”就是指统一于一个国家,统一于党的领导即在国家的统一领导下,各少数民族聚居的地方实行区域自治,设立自治机关,行使自治权。所谓“多元”就是指民族区域自治具有权力分配性、参与性、合理性、认同性。一体多元性是对民族区域自治的本质概括,也是对民族区域自治的一种理性认识。     

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.     

湖北高等教育摭谈

湖北地处我国中部，是我国的高等教育大省，在全国具有广泛的影响和重要性。在东部跨越式发展和西部大开发的形势下，如何利用承东启西的地理优势促进湖北高等教育的繁荣，最主要的是要结合本区域的特色。本文通过分析湖北高等教育的特点，总结高等教育发展中的经验和发展趋势，旨在能为其他区域高等教育的发展起到一定的借鉴作用。