The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme

At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known locally as “midday meals” – in government primary schools. In this paper we provide a large‐scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across India, and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of its staggered implementation across Indian states in government but not private schools. Using a panel dataset of more than 420,000 schools observed annually from 2002 to 2004, we find that midday meals result in substantial increases in primary school enrollment, driven by early primary school responses to the program. Our results are robust to a wide range of specification tests.     

体育院校附属竞技体育学校发展的SWOT分析

文章运用SWOT分析方法对附属竞技体育学校发展面临的机遇与挑战进行分析,结合新时期社会对运动员培养的新要求,对附属竞技体育学校的发展进行预测。     

达、汉族高中生自我同一性与归因方式研究

以415名达斡尔族和汉族高中生为研究对象,对达斡尔族和汉族高中生自我同一性与归因方式的关系以及不同民族属性自我同一性的发展特点进行了考察比较。结果表明,两个民族学生皆表现出：成熟型同一性学生倾向内向归因;不成熟型同一性学生倾向外向归因;两个民族学生在自我同一性进程中具有不同的发展特点。     

创建经济实体的校企合作模式探讨——以物流管理专业为例

当前各院校为加强学生实践能力的培养,纷纷开展工学结合、校企合作人才培养模式的改革。物流管理专业是一个新兴专业,专业发展不成熟,与物流企业的合作仍停留在浅层次,主要开展以认知性、仿真性、模拟性为主的实践活动,缺乏实境化的教学实践活动。文章提出以建立经济实体的形式开展校企合作,并针对物流管理专业不同培养方向的不同职业能力探讨了三种经济实体的建立。     

Teachers’ versus parental choice and the tracking distribution of students: a natural experiment

This article studies the secondary school track choice and considers to what extent parents’ and teachers’ assessment of students diverge. We take advantage of a reform in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in 2006. The reform replaced parents’ choice about their children’s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our data comprise class-level information on all public primary schools in the state. We find that teachers tend to recommend higher school types than parents. However, more precise analysis shows that this effect can be limited to districts with above average proportion of immigrants.     

The Effects of Year-Round Schools on the Hospitality Industry's Seasonal Labor Force in the State of Tennessee

Abstract

The hospitality industry in Tennessee employs 181,300 people as seasonal workers; fifty-three percent of those workers come from the school system. The loss of seasonal workers with the implementation of year-round schools will drastically increase the current labor shortage. An alternative labor pool needs to be identified and the issue of year-round schools must be addressed.     

苏北农村小学教育发展问题剖析

苏北农村小学发展在取得可喜成绩的同时,也存在着亟待解决的问题。这些问题需要政府高度重视,也需全民支持。     

Journal Articles of Interest from Other Disciplines

The authors describe the present state of economic education in Japan. There is a larger number of undergraduate students who major in economics, but their purpose of studying economics and their economic literacy differ. Precollege economic education is regulated by the course of study and limited by the poor ability of teachers to teach the economics content.     

论知识经济背景下的高校思想政治教育

知识经济的兴起与发展 ,给人类的生产和生活方式带来巨大的冲击 ,同时也势必对人们的思想产生一定的影响。因此 ,高校思想政治教育必须加快自身建设 ,在内容和方法上有所创新和发展 ,以适应知识经济发展的需要。     

信息化背景下的阅读教学策略

随着社会信息化步伐的加快和互联网的逐步普及，中学生的阅读视野不断扩大，阅读方法发生了很大变化，阅读多媒体化正在逐渐取代传统的文字文本阅读，这使中学生的阅读心理发生变化，语言感受能力面临退化，从而对中学语文阅读教学提出挑战。事实上，即使在信息化时代，文字文本的阅读及阅读教学依然具有不可替代性，它肩负着承传和弘扬民族文化、塑料学生健康人格的重任，是学生形成终身学习能力的需要。因此，面对挑战，阅读教学必须具有相应的策略。