四川简阳县私立纪云中学办学记

简阳县私立纪云中学,是由一位四川简阳籍爱国大盐商罗华垓独资创立。从1943年创办到1950年停办,历时7载。学校设备新制,管理严格,成绩斐然,在当地享有崇高声望。罗华垓不仅创立并在艰难困苦的环境下支撑起照常运行,写下了事业生涯辉煌的篇章,体现了盐商办学的鲜明特质。     

The implementation of school finance reform

The reform of educational finance systems is underway in various states. The results of the reforms in early states can act as guides to the design of new finance systems in other states. Based on recent experiences in New Jersey, the authors discuss the role that policy analysis can play in aiding the school finance reform process. The results of the New Jersey reform suggest that the policy analyst must understand the behavioral responses of school districts to new aid and must take into account likely changes in the underlying economic conditions of local areas if he or she hopes to accurately assess the impacts of alternative finance proposals.     

The sense and the nonsense of school effectiveness

Hanushek misinterprets the data on which he bases his conclusion and draws inappropriate policy implications from them. The goals of a school system affect how its resources are used. Educational goals are highly diverse. Accordingly, the measures of output used in Hanushek's studies are inappropriate. To develop more effective measures, the nature of the teaching and learning process must be much better understood. Fortunately, a solid beginning has already been made among specialists in education on that critical task; but more work is needed.     

The anti-discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory

Public Choice - This paper studies the practice of Müsadere in the Ottoman Empire. Müsadere refers to the expropriation of elites—often tax farmers or administrators—by the...     

The effect of school district structure on education spending

This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model of local spending on education that analyzes the effect of institutional structure on education spending. It attempts to determine whether the theory of bureaucratic behavior is consistent with school district spending decisions by testing the hypothesis that the number of school districts in a county has a negative effect on per pupil expenditures. The results are not consistent with the theory, but indicate that a fragmented school district structure serves to increase expenditures.     

Intelligence studies: The emergence of the British school

Christopher Andrew and Jeremy Noakes (eds.), Intelligence and International Relations 1900–1945 (Exeter: University of Exeter Publications, 1987), pp.320; £10.00 (paperback).     

学校图书馆如何应对素质教育

在提倡素质教育的今天,学校图书馆应对自己的设备、服务方式、服务内容有所改变,以应对新一轮的课程改革,因此笔者就学校图书馆如何应对素质教育提出几点看法和见议。     

中职学校教师考核机制存在的问题及对策

考核是引导教师工作方向、调节教师工作积极性的重要手段。中职学校教师考核机制存在诸多问题,不利于教师工作积极性的调动和教学质量的提高。要建立重点明确、客观性强、公平公正、有可比性、能够正确引导教师工作方向和有效调动教师工作积极性的考核制度。     

The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade

Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the students and their schools. Furthermore, the higher infraction rates recorded by sixth graders who are placed in middle school persist at least through ninth grade. An analysis of end‐of‐grade test scores provides complementary findings. A plausible explanation is that sixth graders are at an especially impressionable age; in middle school, the exposure to older peers and the relative freedom from supervision have deleterious consequences. These findings are relevant to the current debate over the best school configuration for incorporating the middle grades. Based on our results, we suggest that there is a strong argument for separating sixth graders from older adolescents. © 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.