System-wide educational reforms are difficult to implement in the United States, but despite difficulties, can be successful, particularly when they associated with broad public support. This study reports on nature of sentiment expressed about a nationwide science education reform effort, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Through use data techniques measure posts Twitter NGSS (N = 565,...

Mexico, in its quest for economic growth, moved from an import substituting inward-oriented policy regime towards an outward oriented trade regime since the introduction of the economic reform in 1985. In the form of stocktaking, this study examines the impact of trade liberalization (openness) on long run economic growth in Mexico by using data from 1980:q1 to 2008:q4 with the help of cointegr...

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This paper explores and analyses similarities and differences in ICT curricula, policies, and assessment between the Vietnamese and Australian educational systems for the final years of secondary educational level. It was found that while having a common core set of tendencies, the Australian ICT curricula, policies, and assessments differ markedly from the Vietnamese counterparts. These differ...

The massification of secondary schooling constitutes the key educational project first post-war period. However, resulting structures differed in terms streaming and standardization. Despite their historical opposition to such expansion, center-right parties contributed shaping these reforms. They generally opposed standardization because distributive strategy rested on support from elites midd...

any states are considering programs that would provide vouchers for (low-income) children to attend private schools because policymakers believe that traditional reforms—such as reducing class sizes—will not fix an educational system that is “broken.” Advocates of vouchers argue that teachers’ unions and bloated bureaucracies impede such reforms from reaching the classroom and increasing studen...

Abstract From the perspective of world work, this article analyses implications current educational reforms in development pedagogical work physical education Novo Ensino Médio [New High School]. Data production was based on a descriptive study recent policies, using dialectical analysis. The analysis is organized two parts: understanding presented and situated; abandonment new curriculum withi...

Extrapolating to our specialty, and having been examiner for both M.Ch and the DNB exit exams, at various places, I find that there is a huge difference in the standard and the conduct of these exams. I believe that the MCI is also trying to standardize exit exams, but we as a specialty and as the apex body of that specialty, should put together a standardized exit exam, to be passed by all can...

This paper examines the impact of women’s property inheritance rights on their educational attainment. Using exogenous variation created by femalefriendly state level reforms to the inheritance law in India, I find that educational attainment of women who were of primary school-going age at the time of reform increased by an average of 0.5 years in reforming relative to non-reforming states. Th...

On Educational Performance Measures Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their use, and argue that they nonetheless have a positive role to pla...