This paper explains how organizations other than schools and governing agencies affect the scope and pace of change in American education. In particular, the paper discusses a set of organizations operating in what can be called the school improvement “industry” in the United States, that is, a group of organizations providing schools and governing agencies with information, training, materials...

Title of Dissertation: SUCCESS FOR ALL: A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL REFORM FOR IMPROVING AT-RISK STUDENTS IN AN URBAN SCHOOL IN CHINA Yanyu Zhou, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Jing Lin Department of Education Policy and Leadership The University of Maryland at College Park Education for all and success for all are human rights as well as our common goals to achieve in...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the reform syndrome, bottle-neck effects and their impacts on teachers and school education in the last ten years and highlight the direction of new developments. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines educational reforms in Hong Kong in the last decade. Findings – Echoing the international trends of educational reforms, Hong Kong, as an internatio...

Despite the growing prominence of theoretical analysis of inequality of opportunity over the past twenty years, empirical work towards the normative evaluation of real-world policies has been minimal. This paper seeks to address this issue. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemer’s model of equality of opportunity. We...

Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment This paper studies the relationship between the timing of tracking of pupils into vocational and academic secondary education and gender differences in educational attainment and income. We argue that in a system that streams students into vocational and academic tracks relativ...

Objective. To investigate the perspectives of resident physicians, in otolaryngology and other specialties, with respect to various health care reform proposals. Also, to determine if these opinions vary between residents training to become general medical doctors versus surgeons and specialists and between those with various levels of educational debt. Study Design and Participants. Survey of ...

This paper reports on a five-year study of a technology-enhanced educational reform initiative at a university in eastern China. A faculty team attempted pedagogical and curricular reform to better prepare English majors for international communication, collaboration, and research using new technologies. The effort resulted in the development of several project-based courses as well as incorpor...

Background: Satisfaction surveys are valuable instruments to evaluate the quality of a health care system and of changes in the system and to provide feedback for health care professionals and policymakers. Objective: This study aims to explain the level of satisfaction by looking for predictors of satisfaction. The potential predictors include demographic variables, users health status, users ...