" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
Education and Reform in China(1st Edition) (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations) by EmilyHannum, Albert Park Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-77095-8, ISBN: 0-415-77095-5
"Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a startling pace. Today, the educational system has diversified in structure, finance, and content; it has become more market-oriented; and it i ..."
"Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a startling pace. Today, the educational system has diversified in structure, finance, and content; it has become more market-oriented; and it i ..."
"One of the most seductive topics in recent years is the field of social capital - the webs of trust, mutual obligation, and cultural knowledge that flow through local information - that yield resources in human-scale associations of individuals. When we ask about the implications for children's learning and performance in the school institution, however, the construct quickly becomes slippery to hold. The 2001 volume provides five paper ..."
"In recent decades, globalization and regional integration have brought significant economic and demographic changes in East Asia, including rising economic inequality, growing population movements within and across borders, and the emergence or renewed geopolitical significance of cultural and linguistic minority populations. These trends have coincided with significant changes in family formation, dissolution, and structures. How have ..."
" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
"Quan Guo Ren Da Chang Wei Fa Zhi Gong Zuo Wei Yuan Hui Sheng Ding ( National People's Congress Law Making Working Committee ) ( eds . ) ( 2000 ) Zhong Hua Ren Ming Gong He Guo Jiao Yu Fa Lu Fa Gui Zhong Hui ( 1949–1999 ) ( Education ..."
"Steven Lehrer is an Assistant Professor at the School of Policy Studies and
Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is
also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His
research interests are in health economics, economics of education, and
experimental economics. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of
Pittsburgh. Wen Li is Associate Professor at the In ..."
" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
Research in the Sociology of Education Strong States, Weak Schools: the Benefits and Dilemmas of Centralized Accountability : The Benefits and Dilemmas of Centralized Accountability by EmilyHannum, Bruce Fuller, Melissa K. Henne Digital, 196 Pages, Published 2009 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-84663-911-1, ISBN: 1-84663-911-5
"Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, Jennifer Lin Russell, Julie A. Marsh and
Jeremy Miles Policymakers and school reformers continue to look to standards-
based accountability (SBA) policies as a vehicle to promote improvements in
teaching and learning. This policy strategy gained traction nationwide – after a
decade of state-led efforts – with the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind
(NCLB) Act of 2001, which mandated that ..."
"Advances in genetics have begun to deliver on their promise of new and improved approaches to the prevention and treatment of human disease, including the gene-based therapeutics. The international sports community has begun to recognize the potential harmful use of gene transfer technology by athletes. The task of monitoring and controlling sports doping must be a truly cooperative effort, involving the cooperation of a range of local, ..."
Educational Inequality by EmilyHannum Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2003 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3670-1, ISBN: 0-8047-3670-7
Beyond the Nation-State The Reconstruction of Nationhood and Citizenship (Research in the Sociology of Education) (Research in Sociology of Education) by David H. Kamens, EmilyHannum, John W. Meyer Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2012 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78052-708-6, ISBN: 1-78052-708-X
"The book examines the effects of education in creating global citizens who share a world culture. This occurs within an international system that still remains decentralized, composed of independent nation-states as major actors. Prof. Kamens argues that as globalization intensifies, this system of nation-states becomes more saturated and dense with structure. Intensified globalization has produced a world society, thanks to the spread ..."
"This index classifies students into five ''bands,'' each of which represents one-fifth
of the AAI distribution. The top 20% are categorized as Band-1 students, and the
bottom 20% are Band-5 students. Furthermore, according to the ... vary by the
type of schools they attend? Research on immigrant children's educational
assimilation has relied primarily on cross-sectional survey data that provide three
groups of students for comparis ..."
Strong States, Weak Schools The Benefits and Dilemmas of Centralized Accountability (Research in the Sociology of Education) (Research in Sociology of Education) by Bruce Fuller, EmilyHannum, Melissa K. Henne, Bruce Fuller Staff Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84663-910-4, ISBN: 1-84663-910-7
"Civic leaders around the globe now press educators to raise the performance of students and schools. Backed by a colorful array of odd bedfellows - from corporate interests to advocates for the poor - politicians seek to narrow the aims of learning, advance routine curricular packages, and tightly align standardized tests. Why are governments pushing to centrally regulate teaching and learning at this historical moment? Do these account ..."
"In recent decades, sociological research has investigated the nature of the school institution and its uneven effects on the progress of families, societies, and the global community. Yet, relatively little comparative research on schooling has dealt in a serious way with links between schooling and the other major contexts of childhood: families and communities. This edition of "Research in the Sociology of Education" speaks to the div ..."