肯定性行动计划与美国少数民族高等教育的发展

自 2 0世纪 60年代中期以来 ,美国实施肯定性行动计划 ,通过实行特别招生计划、加大对少数民族学生的财政资助、加强补习教育、开设少数民族研究课程等措施 ,有力地促进了美国少数民族高等教育的发展。但近年来 ,肯定性行动计划在美国引发了激烈的争论 ,一些州甚至取消了肯定性行动计划 ,这很可能导致美国少数民族高等教育的严重倒退     

论中国电视综艺节目中的公共领域概念

针对电视综艺节目公共领域问题的争论,从理论上分析了考察传媒公共领域的伦理维度,阐述了电视综艺节目公共领域的存在形式,进而提出平民大众的变化与成长使电视综艺节目建构公共领域具有了可能性,平民大众追求一种自由和善的生活是电视综艺节目公共领域的内涵,情感共鸣、认同与形塑是其表现形式。     

Register data in the evaluation and program planning of addiction treatment programs: Using Sweden as an example

Data from large-scale registers is often underutilized when evaluating addiction treatment programs. Since many programs collect register data regarding clients and interventions, there is a potential to make greater use of such records for program evaluation. The purpose of this article is to discuss the value of using large-scale registers in the evaluation and program planning of addiction treatment systems and programs. Sweden is used as an example of a country where register data is both available and is starting to be used in national evaluation and program planning efforts.The article focuses on possibilities, limitations and practicalities when using large-scale register data to conduct evaluations and program planning of addiction treatment programs. Main conclusions are that using register data for evaluation provides large amounts of data at low cost, limitations associated to the use of register data may be handled statistically, register data can answer important questions in planning of addiction treatment programs, and more accurate measures are needed to account for the diversity of client populations.     

Evaluation of the Integrated Services Pilot Program from Western Australia

Independent evaluation of refugee-focused programs in developed nations is increasingly a mandatory requirement of funding bodies and government agencies. This paper presents an evaluation of the Integrated Services Centre (ISC) Pilot Project that was conducted in Australia in 2007 and early 2008. The purpose of the ISC program was to provide integrated support to humanitarian refugees in settlement, physical health, mental health and employment. The Pilot Project was based in two primary schools in Perth, Western Australia. The evaluation utilized a flexible qualitative ‘engaged’ methodology and included interviews, focus groups and telephone interviews with the key stakeholders, project staff and a small number of refugee families. The strength of the qualitative methodology (including data that is narrative rich) is that it highlights issues as perceived by each stakeholder and provides insights into the daily work by ISC staff that helped to uncover unintended outcomes. Despite the fact that the ISC evaluation was supposed to be a ‘before and after’ design, the researchers acknowledge a common weakness in many evaluations (including the ISC) that when baseline data is required, evaluators are recruited after the project has begun. This issue is discussed in the paper. It is critical that independent evaluators are able to begin collecting baseline data as soon as programs are launched, if not before.     

Some Questions for Stanton Peele on Addiction to Love,Stress and Alcohol

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Technology and School Social Work Services: Introducing Technology in an Alternative School

SUMMARY

The public school system, one of the largest human service institutions in our nation, is continuously engaged in a struggle to balance the needs of a growing and diverse population with continuing threats of budget cuts. Under these conditions, it becomes even more critical that school social workers understand and appreciate the role of technology in delivering and evaluating services. To assess the effectiveness of school social work services, evaluation will have to be planned for, and systems of data collection and processing will have to be conducted on an ongoing basis.

This paper outlines the process whereby school social workers in a local school district proceeded to introduce technology into their service delivery regimen. Secondly, the paper shows how such technology was, and may be, used to evaluate the services provided by school social workers in an alternative school.     

Labor Supply by Farm Operators Under “Decoupled” Farm Program Payments

As part of 1996 legislation, the U.S. began paying farmers production flexibility contract payments designed to be somewhat decoupled from current production decisions. In the labor-leisure model, decoupled payments would be expected to only have a wealth effect, but coupled payments would be expected to have both a substitution and a wealth effect. In this paper, the impacts of the decoupled payments and other government payments on both farm and off-farm labor allocations for farm operators are considered using data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Results indicate that government payments tend to increase the hours operators work on their farm and decrease the hours they work off the farm. This is true whether the payments come from programs which tie payments to current year production, or not.JEL Classification: D13, J22, Q12, Q22The authors are agricultural economists with the Economic Research Service (USDA). The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.     

西部大开发与贵州少数民族教育改革和发展

新中国成立50多年来,特别是改革开放和实施西部大开发战略以来,贵州民族教育取得了巨大成就, 初步形成了从学前教育到高等教育在内的民族教育体系,为提高我省少数民族的科学文化素质、促进 少数民族地区经济发展和社会进步、加强民族团结、保持民族地区社会稳定做出了重大贡献。但由于 历史、社会、自然条件,特别是经济发展水平等多种原因,我省民族教育还面临着一些特殊的困难和问 题。为落实中央民族工作会议和全国第五次民族教育工作会议精神,深化改革,加快发展我省民族教 育,我们承担了国家社会科学基金全国教育科学“十五”规划民族教育方面唯一重点课题“西部大开发 与中国少数民族教育改革和发展研究”子课题之一的《西部大开发与贵州少数民族教育改革和发展研 究》,并提出了我们的总体研究思路和设计方案。     

随机网络瓶颈容量扩张相关机会规划模型

文章研究的问题为,在不确定环境中,怎样去增加网络中一组边的容量到一个指定的容量,以至于网络瓶颈扩张的费用不超过给定的总费用上限的概率尽可能的大.本文假定每一条边的单位扩张费用Wi是一个随机的变量,它服从一定的概率分布.带有随机单位扩张费用W的网络瓶颈容量扩张问题可以根据一些规则,列出它的相关机会规划模型的通用表达式.随后,本文将网络瓶颈容量算法、随机模拟方法和遗传算法合成在一起,设计出该问题的混合智能通用算法.最后,给出数值算例.     

电视新闻的娱乐化、收视率陷阱及其矫正

电视新闻类节目的娱乐化成为新闻从业人员获取收视率的突破口。在娱乐化的浪潮下,电视新闻制作故事化、夸张性、煽动性越来越强,媒介公信力不断下降,社会效益被经济效益逐步取代。对此现象,新闻从业人员及学术界必须予以关注,寻求一条充分发挥电视新闻节目经济效益和社会效益的路径。