“为创新而教”：美国促进科学教育的新途径     

祝怀新  吴伊琳 《浙江教育学院学报》2011,(2):55-59,70

鉴于美国中小学生在科学、技术、工程及数学（STEM）方面学业成绩不理想的状况,奥巴马总统启动了一项＂为创新而教＂运动以激发学生对STEM的兴趣,以促进中小学科学教育。该运动吸引了各类民间组织、私营企业及个人投入资金研发并实施各类具体项目,这些项目以课外活动为形式,作为学校科学教育的延伸与补充,业已取得了显著的成效。  相似文献   

论美军航母战斗群在我专属经济区活动的非法性     

温聪 《安徽广播电视大学学报》2011,(3):10-12,32

近年来,美军航母战斗群在我国周边海域活动频繁,特别是去年下半年以来,先后有多个美军航母战斗群驶入我国周边海域进行军事活动,并扬言要进入我国专属经济区内进行活动,这对我国的国家安全利益造成了极大的威胁。本文主要以《联合国海洋法公约》为依据,论证了美航母战斗群在我专属经济区内进行军事活动的非法性,驳斥了美军所谓＂国际海域军事行动合法＂的错误主张。  相似文献   

摇摆与孤立：“九一八”后美国远东政策的考察     

刘杰 《安徽广播电视大学学报》2011,(3):119-122

＂九一八＂事变牵涉各方远东外交政策,美国作为远东拥有重要利益的大国,其外交政策走向对国际局势具有重要作用。最终,在日本的武力下,美国所构建的华盛顿体系逐渐走向了破产。  相似文献   

试析美国成人教育理论研究的三种取向     

孙颖  于伟 《外国教育研究》2011,(2)

近百年来,美国成人教育理论取得了令人瞩目的研究成果,以三种典型理论取向为指导的研究表现得尤为突出。认知发展理论取向侧重于把成人教育作为一个认知过程;年龄理论取向强调成人在不同年龄阶段具有不同的特点,根据特点开展成人教育;功能主义理论取向注重成人教育中各组成因素之间的相互关系,三者分别从不同角度对成人教育理论进行了深入的分析和探讨。美国成人教育理论的不同研究取向,有助于从多个层面展现美国成人教育理论的整体性和系统性。  相似文献   

反美主义与韩国外交政策     

凌胜利  郭锐 《丹东师专学报》2011,(1):141-146,F0003

反美主义目前已成为国际关系中的重要现象。韩国的反美主义已经成为影响韩国政治与外交的重要因素。其实质是一种反美情绪而非根深蒂固的意识形态敌对,源自韩国经济发展的促进、民主化的推动、民族主义的膨胀与美韩不平等关系的刺激。通过利益表达机制与媒体报道,韩国反美主义的社会影响与政治效应愈加明显。对美韩同盟、美韩关系、朝鲜半岛问题以及东北亚格局都有所影响。成为研究韩国外交政策不可或缺的元素。  相似文献   

Poisoning the mind: Arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh     

M. Niaz Asadullah  Nazmul Chaudhury 《Economics of Education Review》2011,30(5):873-888

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water risks development of diseases and therefore has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic contamination of tubewells, the primary source of drinking water at home, on the learning outcome of school-going children in rural Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and statistically significant correlation between mathematics scores and arsenic-contaminated drinking tubewells at home, net of the child's socio-economic status, parental background and school specific unobserved correlates of learning. Similar correlations are found for an alternative measure of student achievement and subjective well-being (i.e. self-reported measure of life satisfaction), of the student. We conclude by discussing the policy implication of our findings in the context of the current debate over the adverse effect of arsenic poisoning on children.  相似文献   

Same work, lower grade? Student ethnicity and teachers’ subjective assessments     

Reyn van Ewijk 《Economics of Education Review》2011,30(5):1045-1058

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The quality vs. the quantity of schooling: What drives economic growth?     

Theodore R. Breton 《Economics of Education Review》2011,30(4):765-773

This paper challenges Hanushek and Woessmann's (2008) contention that the quality and not the quantity of schooling determines a nation's rate of economic growth. I first show that their statistical analysis is flawed. I then show that when a nation's average test scores and average schooling attainment are included in a national income model, both measures explain income differences, but schooling attainment has greater statistical significance. The high correlation between a nation's average schooling attainment, cumulative investment in schooling, and average tests scores indicates that average schooling attainment implicitly measures the quality as well as the quantity of schooling.  相似文献   

Economic returns to speaking ‘standard Mandarin’ among migrants in China's urban labour market     

Wenshu GaoRussell Smyth 《Economics of Education Review》2011,30(2):342-352

This article uses data from the China Urban Labour Survey administered across 12 cities in 2005 to estimate the economic returns to speaking standard Mandarin among internal migrants in China's urban labour market. The article builds on studies that estimate the economic returns to international immigrants of being fluent in the major language of the destination country and studies that estimate the economic returns to proficiency in the national language among groups of people who speak a minority language. Importantly, we control for potential endogeneity bias in the estimates of the effect of language fluency on earnings. We find that for migrants as a whole, there are considerable economic returns to speaking standard Mandarin. We also find gender differences. While the coefficient on fluency in standard Mandarin is statistically significant and large for females, the coefficient on fluency is statistically insignificant for males. One possible explanation for this finding is that female migrant workers are engaged more in occupations which have greater contact with urban locals and hence the return to investment in language skills is higher.  相似文献   

The impact of child labor on schooling outcomes in Nicaragua     

Mariela Buonomo Zabaleta 《Economics of Education Review》2011,30(6):1527-1539

Child labor is considered a key obstacle to reaching the international commitments of Education For All. However, the empirical evidence on the effects of child labor on educational attainments is mostly limited to static measurements. This paper assesses the consequences of child labor on schooling outcomes over time by employing a three-year longitudinal household data set from Nicaragua. The potential endogeneity of past child labor and school outcomes is addressed through instrumental variables. The time a child dedicates to work is found to have harmful consequences on subsequent educational achievements, even after controlling for previous human capital accumulation and other factors. In particular, working over three hours a day is associated with school failure in the medium term. A distinction by type of work shows that time spent in market production has larger negative effects on school outcomes than time spent performing household chores.  相似文献