Vigilance and Vitality

正Chinese online education platform 51 Talk has occupied a large share in the domestic market with its online courses provided by Philippine English-speaking teachers.After the Chinese authorities issued a guideline in July on regulating the tutoring market to ease the burden on students in compulsory education,the company issued a statement on August 9 that it would stop selling courses by foreign teachers to domestic teenage students from that day onward,and shift its focus toward adult English teaching-also a key component of its business.     

How to Regulate Tutoring Companies

Excessive burdens placed on the shoulders of young primary and secondary school students have long been a prominent issue in China's education system. In response, the Central Government recently released a document intended to relieve students of some academic burdens. In sum, tutoring institutions will be brought under severe scrutiny, newly established ones will not receive permits, and for-profit institutions will be banned.     

A New Craze

In July the central authorities issued new guide-lines to reduce the excessive burden of homework and after-school tutoring on students. The guide-lines, also known as the "double reduction" policy, apply to all students in the compulsory education stage. According to the policy, curriculum-based after-school training institutions are not allowed to teach during national holidays, weekends or winter and summer vacations. As a result, students have more time to participate in sports, and sports training institutions are gaining momentum.     

Study Burden Cut

正Primary and junior-high school students and their parents across the country have seen some changes since the new school year started on September 1. Students have less homework, and their parents no longer need to correct the homework of their children. At the same time, the number of after-school tutoring institutions for primary and junior-high school students is reducing.     

A New Course of Action

New Oriental, one of China's largest tutoring institutions, is facing controversy after recently unveiling plans for its business transformation.     

Literacy for the community, by the community

Literacy is a significant challenge in the U.S. and its territories, especially in low income communities where use of English language is non-standard. Wedeveloped the Actual Community Empowerment (ACE) Reading program for students at risk in such communities. ACE is a small-group tutoring program to support fluency, word recognition and decoding, and comprehension at the best pace of learning for individual, struggling readers. It has several variations (e.g., for different ages, different uses of technology), depending on local needs and resources. The program has been successfully implemented in 40 locations from Philadelphia to Pohnpei, with a 95% success rate for significant reading improvement. ACE tutors are community paraprofessionals or school students with backgrounds similar to the children who receive tutoring. In the first major section of this paper, the ACE Reading Program is described and empirical research demonstrating the benefits of the program for students' literacy is reviewed. The second major section presents preliminary qualitative research evidence that paraprofessional tutors progress through recognizable stages toward increased professionalism. Recommendations for future research are provided.     

A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Schoolwide Violence Prevention Programs

Violence prevention programs are commonplace in today’s schools, though reviews of the literature reveal mixed empirical findings on their effectiveness. Often, these programs include a variety of components such as social skills training, student mentoring, and activities designed to build a sense of school community that have not been tested for individual effectiveness. To fill this gap, we wanted to determine the relationships between specific violence prevention program components and aggression and violence outcomes. Using the U.S. Department of Education’s School Survey on Crime and Safety, we estimated the effects of components of violence prevention programs through analyses with proportional odds logistic regression and Poisson regression models. We found significant relationships between three violence prevention program components (individual attention, mentoring, tutoring, and/or coaching; recreational, enrichment, or leisure activities; and involving students in resolving student conduct problems) and aggression and violence outcomes.     

In Books One Finds a House of Gold: education and labor market outcomes in urban China

Data from a 1999–2000 survey of urban workers are employed here to examine the role of education and other factors in both preventing lay-offs and obtaining re-employment. The data are also used to compare the effect of education on the earnings of re-employed workers to that of workers who have never been laid off. The empirical results demonstrate that by the late 1990s education had become a key determinant of successful labor market outcomes. The more education a worker had, the less likely he or she was to be laid off. Similarly, the more education a worker had, the better his or her chances of finding new employment once laid off. Interestingly, the education of workers who experienced a lay-off and then found new employment was rewarded more, in terms of incremental earnings for each additional year of schooling, than that of continuously employed workers.     

China's Leisure Education: problem,analysis, and solutions—a case study of college students in Hangzhou

Leisure education has already become an important concept of the modern education system in the Western world, but it is little established and practiced in China as it has been ignored or overlooked. Therefore, this study, in view of the growing importance of leisure life and leisure education for Chinese college students today, was undertaken in order to examine their current situation with regards to leisure life and leisure education. The study presents the results of a survey on leisure education and activities involving students from universities and colleges in Hangzhou, P.R. China, which shows that due to a lack of leisure skills and capabilities as well as an inadequate understanding of the meaning of leisure, the quality and level of students' leisure life on campus is unsatisfactory. This empirically-based study is trying to probe into the problems relating to leisure education in China and provide some perspectives, analysis and solutions based on the findings of the study. Since few researchers have observed leisure activity and leisure education in China, the study is a contribution to the literature on contemporary Chinese leisure education.     

试论张之洞的警察教育思想

作为近代著名教育家,张之洞较为系统的警察教育思想是其丰富的教育思想中颇具特色的组成部分。他关于警察教育方面的一些见解与实践,不仅为当时中国培养了一批专门人才,而且对当前我国警察教育的发展也具有启迪意义。     

企业思想政治教育研究——以生态伦理道德教育为视角

生态伦理道德教育为环境友好型社会建设提供精神动力和观念支持,对企业进行生态伦理道德教育是一种与时代发展相适应的科学的生态伦理观。以往在企业伦理的道德教育中,生态伦理道德教育受到极大的限制和忽略,学界方面也极少重视。对企业进行生态伦理道德教育,不仅扩展了德育内容,而且增强了企业的生态道德意识;对企业进行生态伦理道德教育是新时代发展的需要;是当代企业道德教育的需要;也是当代道德教育科学发展的需要,对社会和企业的将来都具有强烈的现实意义。     

反思终身教育及对其体系的构建

终身教育作为兴起的知识经济社会的生存教育, 随着时代发展的需要而提出。对于世界各国的教育改革与发展,是一大趋势与指导方向。反观终身教育本身,仔细审视,形成正确的认识,才能完善其体系,更好地去构建终身教育体系,促进教育的更好发展。     

法律事务专业诊所式教育模式的构想

新兴的“法律诊所式教育”自上世纪90年代引入中国后，其注重实践与实际技能的教学方法和理念逐渐为高等法学教育所接受。诊所式教育所采用的方法常见的有模拟课堂教学法、代理真实案件法、学生反馈评价法等，它们分别适用于不同条件、不同课程和不同环境。结合高职教育的具体情况，在开始试用初期，本人谨慎选择模拟课堂教学法，待经验和条件积累到一定程度再逐步向代理真实案件的思路发展。为此制定模拟课堂教学的实施方案：慎重选择案例，组织少部分人参与，严格制定诊所的规范，侧重全程指导，以免流于形式。     

对古代皇宫贵族女性文化教育的考察

中国古代皇宫贵族的文化教育自先秦时代至清末一直断断续续地存在并开展着,且有其相应的规章与体系。在当时的社会历史环境下,通过这一教育,虽然在皇宫和贵妇中培养了一些女性人才,但由于这一教育只是对极少数女性的教育,也是一种特权式的教育,故而对古代女性整体文化水平的提高几乎没有起到任何的作用。     

英殖民统治时期印度的妇女教育

英国殖民统治的侵入,使印度的传统教育受到了冲击。西方教育的传播、社会改革者们的努力、民族运动的发展以及现实生活的需要,推动了印度整体教育的发展,从而带动了女性教育的发展,但英殖民统治时期印度妇女教育状况的改善毕竟是有限的。本文就英殖民统治时期印度妇女教育状况的变化及对妇女的影响进行了阐述,并就存在的问题及原因进行了分析和思考。     

彝族地区中小学校实施民族传统体育课程教学研究

通过对彝族地区中小学校体育课程教学现状的调查与研究,分析在彝族地区中小学校利用彝族传统体育文化资源实施体育课程教学的意义与可行性,对进一步深化彝族地区中小学校体育课程教学改革具有重要的指导作用与实用价值。     

辽宁警专非公安高职教育发展的SWOT分析

公安院校的非公安高职教育,是在本世纪初国家高等教育扩招的大背景下发展起来的。运用SWOT法分析公安院校非公安高职教育具有的优势与劣势、面临的机遇与挑战,可以更加科学地掌握非公安高职专业发展过程中的外在机遇、潜在威胁及内部优势与劣势,科学决策,积极适应经济、社会发展的需要,在现有条件下充分发挥学校教育资源的最大功能。     

关于公安院校艺术教育问题的思考

艺术教育在人类文化发展进程中起着开风气之先的作用,现已成为衡量一个国家教育质量高低的标志之一。在国家教育方针指引下,我国普通高校的艺术教育,以其高雅、怡人的独特魅力征服了莘莘学子,受到了大学生的普遍欢迎,艺术教育在高校已深入人心。然而,作为培养人民卫士的公安院校来说,艺术教育却裹足不前。文章结合我国公安院校的具体情况,对其艺术教育的现状进行了客观的分析,从宏观和微观的角度,对公安院校艺术教育的发展前景提出了初步设想,以期实现公安院校艺术教育的正规化。     

“5＋1＋1”模式长效机制之构建

深入贯彻落实“首要标准”，提升教育改造工作科学化水平，必须有切实可行的措施和办法。2010年，按照省局统一部署，监狱在罪犯中全面推行每周5天劳动教育、1天集中教育、1天娱乐休息的“5＋1＋1”管理教育模式。新的工作模式，对监狱教育改造工作的发展提出了挑战，也为监狱教育改造工作的创新迎来了机遇。广大监狱民警应以此为契机，着力激发罪犯服刑和改造的积极性，并通过构建长效机制，确保新的模式取得成效。     

对我国司法警官教育若干问题的理性思考

司法警官教育的基本性质、基本特点和主要任务取决于司法警官职业的特殊性和基本要求。司法警官教育是一种特殊的职业教育,一种特殊的法律纪律教育,一种特殊的医师(即社会医学)教育,一种特殊的师范教育,一种特殊的强制管理教育。司法警官教育的社会责任可以分为解决做人问题、解决方法问题、解决做事问题等三个层面。当前司法警官教育中存在两个基本矛盾。司法警官教育的基本任务是人才培养、科学研究和多样化的社会服务。