Does the amount of school choice matter for student engagement?

School choice may increase student engagement by enabling students to attend schools that more closely match their needs and preferences. But this effect on engagement may depend on the characteristics of the choices available. Therefore, we consider how the amount of educational choice of different types in a local educational marketplace affects student engagement using a large, national population of 8th grade students. We find that more choice of regular public schools in the elementary and middle school years is associated with a lower likelihood that students will be severely disengaged in eighth grade, and more choices of public schools of choice has a similar effect but only in urban areas. In contrast, more private sector choice does not have such a general beneficial effect.     

新疆高校少数民族大学生中华文化认同教育探析?

新疆高校中华文化认同教育的价值取向应坚持“一体”文化认同核心、确立“多元”文化并存共识,切实发挥增强少数民族地区文化软实力、构筑边疆文化安全屏障、建立和谐民族关系等重大功能,为此,应着重从新疆高校少数民族大学生中华文化认同教育内涵、注重培养其优秀人格、建立中华文化认同教育创新机制等方面探索实现路径。     

民族文化传承与教育方式的适应性创新——兰州市回族业余教育的田野调查与思考

教育作为文化的生命机制,以其特有的方式作用于文化,同时教育也深受文化氛围、文化价值观的影响。近年来,在西北回族聚居地区形成了一种新型的教育模式——回族业余教育,是回族传统文化与社会主义文化相适应的产物,是回族传统教育与现代学校教育相适应的结果,是回族群体为了进一步提高群体成员的综合素质以及加强民族文化传承的一种有效探索。     

论教育技术学专业学生视觉素养培养

读图时代是视觉信息猛增的时代,越来越多的视觉元素充斥在我们的生活中,对图像信息的解读、运用成为新世纪年轻一代必要的素养。教育技术学专业与视觉素养更有着息息相关的联系,通过视觉素养的培养提高教育技术学专业学生视觉感知、视觉理解和视觉表达能力,使其成为媒体资源的开发者。     

高职舞蹈表演专业“工学结合”人才培养模式的探索与创新

教育部提出,“要把工学结合作为高等职业教育人才培养模式改革的重要切入点”,论文从遵循高职教育规律,科学制定专业人才培养方案出发,结合开拓校企合作平台,探索“工学交替”人才培养模式的实际,提出了按照企业行业人才评价标准,着力培养高素质技能型专业人才的思路。     

中国代际收入传递趋势及教育在传递中的作用

本文利用中国健康营养调查（CHNS）数据,实证检验了出生于1949-1990年男性是否存在代际收入传递,并分析了其变化趋势和教育在代际收入传递中的作用机制。估计结果表明,1949- 1990年代际收入传递程度总体上不断加强,其中60年代初期和80年代初期出现两次传递高峰。中等收入水平者受父辈的影响及加强趋势均最高,呈现双倒“U”特征。城镇传递加强趋势约是农村2倍,城镇高收入水平者受父辈的影响更强,农村则低收入水平者所受影响更强。对教育作用机制分解发现,教育对代际收入传递的解释程度在农村达到26%,城镇则达到36%。家庭环境导致的子女教育机会不平等是影响代际收入传递趋势变化的最主要原因。随着国民教育水平提高,在中国教育的作用也出现了”组合效应”特征。     

Differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic families in social capital and child development: First-year findings from an experimental study

Disadvantages faced by Hispanic children in the U.S., compared to non-Hispanic Whites, have been widely reported. Economic differences account for some of the gaps, but the social isolation of Hispanic families also serves as a barrier to children's success. Whereas Hispanic families tend to have strong kinship networks, their social ties often do not encompass the school and other authority systems. As a result, Hispanic families may have less access to social capital, that is, relations of trust and shared expectations that foster the flow of relevant information and support social norms that contribute to children's academic and social development. To study the role of social capital in child development, we embarked on a school-randomized trial in two cities with large Hispanic populations: San Antonio, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona. In this paper, we report on first-year data from what will be a three-year longitudinal study, including 24 of an eventual 52 schools and about 1300 of what will be a sample of over 3000 children. We aimed to manipulate social capital through an intervention called Families and Schools Together (FAST), a multi-family after-school program that enhances relations among families, between parents and schools, and between parents and children through a sequence of structured activities over 8 weekly sessions. In the first year, 12 schools were randomly assigned to participate in FAST, and 12 served as controls. Data come from district administrative records, surveys of parents prior to FAST, and surveys of parents and teachers immediately after FAST. Surveys prior to FAST confirm that Hispanic parents have less extensive parent–school networks compared to non-Hispanic Whites. Comparisons of school means on post-FAST surveys indicate that parents in FAST schools experience more extensive social networks than those in control schools, but the differences are much more apparent in Phoenix than in San Antonio. Similarly, a pattern of better behavioral outcomes for children in FAST schools is evident in Phoenix but not San Antonio. Individual-level comparisons suggest that for some outcomes, effects may be larger for non-Hispanic Whites than for Hispanics, which would undermine potential contributions to reducing inequality.     

The Implications of Demographic-Specific Inflation Rates for Trends in Real Educational Wage Differentials

We use data from consumer expenditure surveys to investigate the impact on trends in real wage differentials of using group-specific price indexes. We find that inflation rates decrease monoton-ically with the education of the household head throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and real educational wage differentials, calculated using education-specific price indexes, widened somewhat more than nominal differentials. We also find that differences by education level in fuel and energy consumption, whose relative prices increased during the 1970s, account for the majority of the educational index differences.     

生命教育视野下的教师关照

教师作为教育整体性不可或缺的一个重要组成部分,长期以来生命状态和生命质量没有受到应有的重视,造成教师自然生命以及精神生命的消解,其背后既有教师角色的技术化和工具化的原因,也有社会压力。因此,真正以人为本的教育同样也要从关注教师的自然生命以及精神生命入手,缓解教师的角色冲突,形成良性循环的教师情意系统,更好地实现教育的目的。     

略论教育改革中的教师阻力——一种转向事实背后的分析

教育改革中的教师并非被动、沉默、无力的他者,他们常常以自己特有的方式参与改革,甚至在行动上避让改革,这些日常形式的反抗通常包括:我行我素式的不合作、得过且过式的偷懒和阳奉阴违式的欺骗等。教育改革中教师阻力的产生是一个受多重因素影响的复杂现象,教师阻力现象呈现了学校生活的丰富性,也印证了改革过程的复杂性。走进教师的世界,倾听来自教师的声音,有助于更加客观地看待教师阻力。