Trends in global income inequality and their political implications
Branko Milanovic
LIS Center; Graduate School City University of New York
Talk at the Stockholm School of Economics, September 1, 2014
The Change process - Encouraging Social Science: Secular EducationAkshay Mittal
This presentation will talk about school pioneers or overseers who can adequately advance city training all through the instructive setting using hireling authority and by applying the "Main People Through Change Model". A writing survey will be performed to show how past research has demonstrated that civics can be instructed crosswise over different subjects utilizing different educating procedures. Likewise, this paper will show how the five methodologies gave in "Driving People Through Change Model" can adequately be applied to help school pioneers control instructors through the change process of executing civics inside the instructive setting.
Good Jobs That Pay without a B.A.: A State-by-State Analysis CEW Georgetown
State-level analysis of the 30 million good jobs in the economy for those with less than a bachelor’s degree (B.A.) finds that nearly half of states have added good blue-collar jobs that pay without bachelor’s degrees.
The Change process - Encouraging Social Science: Secular EducationAkshay Mittal
This presentation will talk about school pioneers or overseers who can adequately advance city training all through the instructive setting using hireling authority and by applying the "Main People Through Change Model". A writing survey will be performed to show how past research has demonstrated that civics can be instructed crosswise over different subjects utilizing different educating procedures. Likewise, this paper will show how the five methodologies gave in "Driving People Through Change Model" can adequately be applied to help school pioneers control instructors through the change process of executing civics inside the instructive setting.
Good Jobs That Pay without a B.A.: A State-by-State Analysis CEW Georgetown
State-level analysis of the 30 million good jobs in the economy for those with less than a bachelor’s degree (B.A.) finds that nearly half of states have added good blue-collar jobs that pay without bachelor’s degrees.
Presentation by RECOUP Director on current research agenda and research projects conducted in the four partner countries. The presentation also elaborates on the implications of RECOUP research on educational as well as international aid policy.
Lifelong Learning and Vocational Education and Training: towards Understandin...Jaakko Hyytiä
Natasha Kersh and Karen Evans (UCL Institute of Education ) presented on : “Lifelong learning and VET: Towards Understanding the Influence of Societal Eco-Systems on Learning Across the Lifespan”
The presentation has considered a range of complex interdependencies between lifelong learning (LLL) and vocational education and training (VET) and reflected on some emerging findings of the ongoing H2020 project EduMAP.
The presentation has discussed fresh trends in economic and social development and the ways they have contributed to the changes in perception of learning though life, the skills required by contemporary learning spaces and the ways that adults engage with a range of networks, contexts and spaces.
This whitepaper helps in redefining the traditional business concept of a return on investment (ROI) is required to recognize community-wide district benefits.
Yekaterina Chzhen presents “Impacts of a Cash Plus Intervention on Gender Attitudes Among Tanzanian Adolescents" at Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Barcelona July 29-30.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on the Let Us Learn project.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection.
The Geo-Political and Economic Implications of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agr...Elvin Uy
Presentation for our International Policy & Politics course in Carnegie Mellon. Analyzes broader geo-political implications of deeper economic integration between ASEAN and China.
Presentation by RECOUP Director on current research agenda and research projects conducted in the four partner countries. The presentation also elaborates on the implications of RECOUP research on educational as well as international aid policy.
Lifelong Learning and Vocational Education and Training: towards Understandin...Jaakko Hyytiä
Natasha Kersh and Karen Evans (UCL Institute of Education ) presented on : “Lifelong learning and VET: Towards Understanding the Influence of Societal Eco-Systems on Learning Across the Lifespan”
The presentation has considered a range of complex interdependencies between lifelong learning (LLL) and vocational education and training (VET) and reflected on some emerging findings of the ongoing H2020 project EduMAP.
The presentation has discussed fresh trends in economic and social development and the ways they have contributed to the changes in perception of learning though life, the skills required by contemporary learning spaces and the ways that adults engage with a range of networks, contexts and spaces.
This whitepaper helps in redefining the traditional business concept of a return on investment (ROI) is required to recognize community-wide district benefits.
Yekaterina Chzhen presents “Impacts of a Cash Plus Intervention on Gender Attitudes Among Tanzanian Adolescents" at Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Barcelona July 29-30.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on the Let Us Learn project.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection.
The Geo-Political and Economic Implications of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agr...Elvin Uy
Presentation for our International Policy & Politics course in Carnegie Mellon. Analyzes broader geo-political implications of deeper economic integration between ASEAN and China.
Training and Design for Experiential Learning: InclusionJavonni McGlaurin
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Jyotsna Jha's presentation at UNICEF Innocenti's Inception Scoping Workshop for Evidence on Educational Strategies to Address Child Labour in India & Bangladesh, held in New Delhi in November 2019.
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Running Head: EVOLVING NEEDS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS1
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Evolving needs of Community College Students
Students Name
Institutional Affiliation
Evolving Needs of Community College Students
Historical Background
Community colleges were initially not distinctly identified on their own. Until the Clinton reforms of community colleges in the 1980s, community colleges were no different from junior colleges. The programs and organizational culture were not as developed, and the student needs were rarely attended to in the diverse way that they are today (Gavazzi et al., 2018). Students were assumed to be homogenous, with either a low economic background or substantially flat academic prowess. After the recognition and reinstatement as accredited institutions of merit, community college missions changed and became more student-centered.
The core programs were initially only vocational and for transfer to university purposes. Developmental education was not adequately developed, yet it contributed in a massive way to student retention and the student's ability to finish the program and progress to higher education. Community colleges have been very rigid in their approach to learning, governance, and even administration (Beach, 2011). Most of the changes that occur do not affect the entire institution but are marginalized to transform only a select few. These changes either influence a certain courses based on profitability or the trends in the business world, but rarely extend to other programs within the colleges.
Fiscal policies in community colleges are primarily dependent on the federal government because community college facilities are supposed to encourage the most economically disadvantaged. Tuition is very low compared to the capacity building needed to run the institutions, and the result is that the community colleges suffer from an ultimate shortage in the facility and consolidated programs that undermine the skill sets offered to the students (O'Banion, 2019). Traditionally this has been crippling the system’s ability to change the approach in which the curriculum, administration and governance is run.It creates a shortage of staff for capacity building purposes and an overall decline in the quality of education offered within the institution.
Current issues
Current issues relating to students' evolving needs include student performances that have been diverse depending on factors such as program choice. Programs in health sciences, for instance, have seen a very consistent high-performance culture that has been aided by the level of competency that the students in the courses (Fugle & Falk, 2015). About 98 percent of the students in classes such as a physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, radiologic technicians, and nursing assistance have seen a very high return on investment in terms of their absorption into the workforce or their progression into b.
Despite the centrality of school districts in all the ways described, we know very little from existing research about how important they are to student achievement relative to other institutional components for delivering education services, including teachers and schools. Neither do we have information on the size of the differences in effectiveness among districts or whether there are districts that show exceptional patterns of performance across time, e.g., moving from low to high performing.
Budget Allocation/ Human Capital Formation:
If you really want to know the priorities of a government, instead of going to their manifesto, check their budget allocation. One major reason our literacy rates have remained low or extremely stagnant is that there is very little allocation in the Budget.
Too Many Stakeholders:
The system has too many stakeholders – teachers, students, administrators and even the Government. While the main focus in on the ones who education is being dispensed to, the children, even the imparters, that is the teachers, aren’t happy with a lot of instability in regulations, unwarranted discipline imposed on them. And, in that bid to please all the stakeholders, and failing at it, the essence of education and literacy is lost. It’s the age-old saying of “Too many cooks spoil the broth”.
The System Is Outdated:
We need better policies, more interactive classroom approach, more student-friendly learning methodology, and better study models which would focus on holistic and comprehensive learning, instead of the flawed and narrow ‘let’s cram and vomit in exam’ models.
How Can It Get Better?:
Education Start-Ups: The statistics clearly show how important it is for our literacy rates to get better. Many online education start-ups are working for the literacy rates to soar. They focus on building interest in the formative years and, hence, target the younger age groups.
Follow the Delhi Model: The Delhi government’s model on budget allocation for education is a solid example of prioritising right. Their programme ‘Mission Buniyaad’ was aimed to beat the poor literacy rate. Today, students are at a level playing field thanks to their exemplary programmes which have also got world recognition. Today, the Delhi Chief Minister’s son and a tailor’s son are going to be studying together at IIT. It’s not about the class divide, but providing equal access to resources- that’s the main ‘end’ a government must seek to achieve through the ‘means’ of these policies.
Traditionally, we view problems as being isolated to one area or another. We fail to see the interconnectedness of issues, and how making progress in one area can have a far reaching effect on another. Systems thinking forces us to move away from the traditional way, and instead looks at how each issue is connected to the other. It removes boundaries and allows us to merge multiple standpoints and methods into one, creating a more complete solution that is all around stronger than each individual part.
Problem: Improve the employment rate and Median salary.
How: Moving away from traditional thinking to systems thinking.
Solution: Domain-based decentralized platforms are organized around connections, patterns of organization and how the system behavior emerges out of those patterns.
Pathways to Opportunity Project: Increasing Educational Equity through Innova...Leslie Talbot
This paper details the complexities of in- and out-of-school challenges encountered by off-track youth. It outlines the tremendous opportunity these students present for high school innovation. The authors maintain that schools appropriately designed can effectively meet the academic and nonacademic needs of over-age and under-credited students. The authors provide recommendations school design and systems modifications that can be implemented in either public charter or district alternative high schools. It is the authors’ position (and experience) that schools implementing these design elements maintain safe and healthy climates and cultures, content and effective staff, and most importantly –greater performance gains and improved life circumstances for their students.
Huff, patrick the fight against common core schooling v 5 n1 2014William Kritsonis
NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS are a group of national and international refereed, blind-reviewed academic journals. NFJ publishes articles academic intellectual diversity, multicultural issues, management, business, administration, issues focusing on colleges, universities, and schools, all aspects of schooling, special education, counseling and addiction, international issues of education, organizational behavior, theory and development, and much more. DR. WILLIAM ALLAN KRITSONIS is Editor-in-Chief (Since 1982). See: www.nationalforum.com
Creating Schools That Are Successful In Teaching And Learningnoblex1
Nationwide, low-performing schools are high on the agenda of urban school reform leaders. The current focus reverses the neglect that has plagued these schools for years. Many of them are situated in distressed communities that show the results of years of disinvestment, communities where a growing concentration of poverty and its consequences has taken a social and economic toll. These issues spill over into the schools. These schools, nevertheless, must teach all children to high standards of achievement and mastery, with no excuses.
Most urban schools are vulnerable to society's preconceptions or biases regarding race and ethnicity, income, and class. But problems affecting academic achievement are just as likely to begin in the schools. Teachers' low expectations for student performance, whether out of misplaced sympathy, burn-out or frustration, are self-fulfilling prophecies. Low expectations produce a correspondingly low level of curriculum that is taught in an unengaging manner, that results in low levels of student achievement.
We believe that reciprocal accountability is critical to creating schools that are successful in teaching and learning.
Urban schools, and public education in general, have been undergoing fundamental review. Broad and accelerating changes in society are demanding higher standards of performance than ever before from the nation's public schools. In response, national, state and local leaders are developing academic standards for what children should know and be able to do at specific stages in their education. Almost every state has adopted or is in the final stages of adopting standards, and many states are aligning teacher certification, testing and accountability provisions to the standards. Within this context, school districts across the country have decided to intervene and take an active role in addressing low school performance. The educational interventions are long overdue and welcome, if done well. The high visibility, take-charge leadership of some urban superintendents has a broadly beneficial result of increasing public confidence in urban public education. It is important, however, to explore these interventions to see if they result in serious improvement in teaching and learning in schools. It would be unfortunate if the only results were slightly improved standardized test scores that provided a positive "spin" for political leaders.
As school districts across the country began aggressive interventions in low-performing schools, we decided to examine these interventions and, at the other end of the spectrum, initiatives that recognize school success. This report describes, analyzes and draws lessons and recommendations from the current interventions, which are primarily district-led.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/creating-schools-that-are-successful-in-teaching-and-learning/
Distance learning in Brazil, access and equity demanding new skills and innov...Luciano Sathler
Distance learning in Brazil, access and equity demanding new skills and innovation. The Commonwealth of Learning Media Centre for Asia, September 2015.
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2. Purpose and set up
Straightforward evaluation of decentralization reform in the
education sector in Colombia.
The 100 000 cut-off allows for a relatively clean
identification of the causal impact of decentralization, at
least at this size of a municipality.
3. Link to inequality?
Generally publicly provided education of high quality is seen as a key to
equality of opportunity, though of course not a sufficient condition. Extent
to which reform affects average quality of (and access to) education, can
thus be important for inequality.
If effect of reform on quality of education also is different across different
socio-economic groups, then there is also a very direct link to inequality,
possibly even reinforcing current levels of inequality.
4. Identification?
Seems like a very clean natural experiment, but there are always a few things worth thinking
about.
◦ Education reform concurrent with other decentralization reforms to health care and other
public services. Health, income etc. also affects student performance and if ability to deliver
services in one area is correlated with other areas, then results may overstate effect of
educational reform.
◦ Can migration of talented and motivated students from under performing to over performing
municipalities bias results upward (in particular over time)? Schools are rated and results
publicized widely. At least worth discussing.
◦ Even if a clean effect on test results are produced, does that map squarely into educational
quality? A worldwide debate on teaching for the tests, may incentives be stronger in a more
decentralized system?
5. External validity?
As Zelda points out in the paper, 90 % of Colombian municipalities are too small to be included
in current study. The trade offs between centralization and decentralization may look quite
different at different sizes of municipalities (local competence, opportunities for corruption,
etc.), unclear how well results travel.
Would results travel to other countries? I have no idea, but I think that a discussion of this is
always warranted, but often neglected.
6. Results?
Main results seem to be that there is no
difference at the aggregated level, but that
effects are positive for more developed
municipalities and negative for less developed
municipalities, and that effects grow stronger
over time.
Classification into development levels is critical
but to me confusing. “respectively, those
characterized by top 25%, top 50%, bottom 50%
and bottom 25% values from the development
distribution of municipalities that in 2002 were
certified in education.”
Is sample heavily skewed towards
underperforming municipalities?
7. Immediate effect that increases
Results increase over time, intuitive and nicely
captured.
Quite large effects already in 2002, reform
initiated in 2002-2003.
What does it look like in 2001?
8. No effects on average?
Are there really no effects on average quality?
Even without weighing poor municipalities
more than better off, the results seem
generally negative.
Just taking estimated coefficient and share of
students at different levels of development
index, what would be expected effect on
randomly picked child?
9. School enrolment
Still preliminary. Conclusions argue that no effects are found, but my
understanding is that preliminary results suggest increased
enrolment in less developed municipalities and reduced enrolment
in more developed municipalities.
Suggests that differences in results may have very little to do with
improved/worsened average human capital across municipalities at
different development levels, just different approaches to
enrolment. Understanding this is critical.
10. Conclusions: Welfare/mechanisms
Following up on enrolment results; more analysis of the mechanisms at work is crucial for any
policy/welfare arguments.
Decentralization did not affect funding, and teacher salaries and curricula largely determined by
national guidelines. What explains the results?
Maybe districts allocate better teachers to more challenging municipalities (centralization), whereas
municipalities compete over good teachers (decentralization), with more developed municipalities
winning out?
Interpretation of results depend critically on mechanism at work, needs to be discussed and to the
extent possible explored.