A CASE FOR REFORM OF THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM

There are more than half a million children in our nation's foster care system. While foster care is intended to provide a temporary safe harbor for abused and neglected children, too many of these youth spend years in foster care limbo—experiencing a turbulent life in motion as they move from placement to placement, community to community, and school to school. Youth in foster care commonly fail to receive basic health and psychological care, and nearly 20,000 youth age out of foster care every year to an adult path of homelessness, unemployment, and despair. Our entire community must work together to more responsibly parent these youth. This article will address how lawyers and child advocates can advocate for new approaches and enhanced support on behalf of the voiceless and most vulnerable members of our community. It will address existing hurdles and systemic challenges that have helped to create the current disheartening status quo. The article will then discuss strategies that advocates can employ to turn the corner on behalf of these youth at risk.     

网络化：学习型组织的创建路径——以公安机关为例

学习型组织不是简单的组织学习,把公安机关的“大练兵”活动理解为就是创建学习型公安机关的观点是片面的。在组织理论中,学习型组织是针对理性官僚制组织由于职能分工、层级科制所形成的学习智障而提出的新型组织管理模式。因此,学习型组织的创建必须从组织形态的改革入手,把僵化的金字塔式的组织转变成沟通顺畅的扁平化组织。现代化的信息平台和网络化沟通,为我们提供了很好的实现组织扁平化的工具。只有在组织形态发生变革的情况下,结合公安机关建立的一系列长效学习机制,才能真正走上公安干警个人、公安机关自身不断学习、可持续发展之路。     

拓展训练与公务员能力培养

公务员能力培养是党的执政能力建设的重要组成部分。天津行政学院根据当前新的形势和任务发展趋势的要求,积极开创公务员培训新思路,不断创新公务员培训方法,把拓展训练这种体验式学习新方式引入公务员能力培养的教学工作中,探讨如何发挥拓展训练在公务员能力培养中的重要作用,并在教学实践中不断得以发展与完善。     

关于把长春市建设成学习型城市的几个问题

把长春市建设成学习型城市是时代发展的需要，是实现长春市经济跨越式发展的需要，是促进城市全面进步和可持续发展的需要，是提商市民素质实现自身价亿的需要。长春市构建学习型城市应遵循从实际出发，注重实效、领导重祝，行政推动、健全机制，措施配套、全民参与，与时俱进的原则；确立终身学习的理念、健全系统的学习体系、形成社会化学习网络、建立科学的人才培养机制等具体目标。     

Beyond the Running Tally: Partisan Bias in Political Perceptions

I examine the impact of long-term partisan loyalties on perceptions of specific political figures and events. In contrast to the notion of partisanship as a simple running tally of political assessments, I show that party identification is a pervasive dynamic force shaping citizens' perceptions of, and reactions to, the political world. My analysis employs panel data to isolate the impact of partisan bias in the context of a Bayesian model of opinion change; I also present more straightforward evidence of contrasts in Democrats' and Republicans' perceptions of objective politically relevant events. I conclude that partisan bias in political perceptions plays a crucial role in perpetuating and reinforcing sharp differences in opinion between Democrats and Republicans. This conclusion handsomely validates the emphasis placed by the authors of The American Voter on the role of enduring partisan commitments in shaping attitudes toward political objects.     

The MISSING LINK: Exploring the Relationship Between Higher Education and Political Engagement

Empirical political behavior research has consistently observed a robust and positive relationship between education and political engagement, but has failed to adequately explain why education is so important. Using data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) Longitudinal Study, I test three competing hypotheses explaining the enduring link between higher education and political behavior. I find that a verbal SAT scores and a social science curriculum are related to future political engagement, suggesting that the content of higher education, especially a curriculum that develops language and civic skills, is influential in shaping participation in American democracy. Analysis for this article relied on restricted-use data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Application procedures for obtaining an NCES restricted data license to access theBaccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study are available at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/b&b/. Replication code and supplemental variables (including school quality) are available onthe authors website.     

儿童学习动机类型与创造力倾向关系的研究

本研究采用问卷法,对小学生的学习动机类型,创造性倾向以及二之间的关系进行了研究。368名有效被试来自南京市三所普通小学的三、四、五年级学生。研究结果表明：（1）在我国小学生中,确实存在内部动机和外部动机两种学习动机类型,三年级学生与四、五年级学生相比,更多地表现出外部动机占主导地位,随着年级的增长,小学生中学习动机类型为内部动机的人数逐渐增多。但两种不同的动机类型依然存在。（2）随着年级的增长,小学生的创造性倾向呈现出一种正增长的趋势：四、五年级学生比三年级学生有更高的创造性倾向。（3）不同学习动机类型小学生的创造性倾向表现出显差异。持内部学习动机的小学生在总的创造性倾向上优于持外部动机的小学生。     

论婚约解除的民事责任--从我国首例因征婚引出巨额财产纠纷案说起

婚约是男女双方将来缔结婚姻关系的法律行为 ,当事人虽不能基于婚约请求结婚 ,但其仍具有一定的法律效力。基于婚约发生的财产赠与关系 ,实质上是一种附条件的赠与行为 ,婚约解除后应依不当得利予以返还 ;一方擅自解除婚约或因他方过错解除婚约的 ,无过错方可请求损害赔偿。结合国内首例因征婚引出巨额财产纠纷案的分析 ,对上述理论给予了阐述。     

Britain’s Choice: Polarisation or Cohesion

Britain’s Choice, a report published by More in Common, develops a new segmentation of the British public based on their core beliefs, values and identities. Identifying seven segments, the report aims to better understand the British public, the goal being to work out how to build a more cohesive Britain—the choice facing Britain being a path to further division and polarisation or one to greater solidarity and shared values. The report strikes a broadly optimistic turn and highlights the shared values across the seven groups, but there are warning signs in the data that there are still many issues on which these groups could be divided, the overlap between them, for now, limiting the success of attempts to do so and throwing up a ‘kaleidoscopic’ pattern that changes from issue to issue.     

十六届中共中央政治局集体学习综论

十六届中共中央政治局在继承和发扬党的三代中央领导集体重视学习、善于学习的优良传统、理论联系实际的优良学风的基础上,一个突出的特点是中央政治局集体学习的制度化。44次集体学习是围绕着全面建设小康社会这个中心任务展开的。这些重视学习、加强学习的安排,带着战略眼光、历史眼光、世界眼光来学习的方法,对建设学习型政党发挥着重要的领导和示范作用。