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AbstractResearch into state appropriations across the United States frequently examines the influence of socio-demographic characteristics and political characteristics on particular levels of funding. We extend this literature to examine the year-to-year volatility of funding in order to test hypotheses surrounding the interlocks among multiple actors in the political stage. Our findings suggest that, when state higher education leaders are politically close to governors and have no formal budgetary power they capture more revenue volatility.

Removed from abstract political principle and observed in the policies of historical educational regimes, changing ideas of community, equality, and liberty not only reveal the likeness and diversity of Anglo-American democracy over time but also constitute criteria for making judgements about its extent and quality

The first book to bring together noted scholars to address how education is being remade by the violent demands of corporate globalization as well as how education is central to the global pursuit of corporate dominance.

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and spending on public higher education. In contrast to the hypothesis of the classical partisan theory that implies higher public expenditures under leftist parties, we find that governments under conservative parties or a coalition between social democrats and conservatives spend more on public higher education than governments run by the social-democratic party alone.

I met Gabriela Macias a few months ago in an undergraduate class in history that I teach to prospective high school teachers. A diminutive middle-aged woman, Gabriela was watchful in class and seemed indifferent to my attempts to reach through her stony silences. But a couple of weeks into the class, I made a breakthrough. We had been discussing the role of passion in education. I had started the discussion by insisting that unless teachers feel a real sense of commitment to the student body and feel passionate about empowering students with knowledge and ideas, they have no business being in the classroom. In retrospect, my statements seemed a little extreme, but it is hard to entice students to enter the teaching profession by the prospect of tests, more state-administered tests, and even more standardized examinations! When Gabriela started speaking, the class fell silent. But it was not her eloquence that silenced us; it was her accent. Her accent was impenetrable! I am troubled by this public admission and even considered omitting this sentence from this essay. As an immigrant from India, I find people often have trouble understanding the stubborn Indian cadences that litter my superficially Americanized speech. But that day we all strained to understand Gabriela.

The present paper is an analysis of education facilities and education level in tribal areas in Madhya Pradesh. Literacy is a recent phenomenon among the tribals. Tribal populations still remain deprived of the elementary education at the primary level. Since illiteracy is prevalent among the majority of tribes, higher and professional education is distance dream for them to achieve. Despite the programme of Universalisation of Primary Education, which has been in effective operation since 1986, the literacy rate of STs in Madhya Pradesh remained as low as 50.6 per cent, while the general literacy rate reached 69.3 per cent in 2011. Further, the female literacy rate (41.5%) of STs in state stood much lower in comparison with general category. Tribal literacy rate varies from tribe to tribe and region to region. Still there are areas in the tribal-dominated districts across state that remains largely unserved by primary education facilities. Literacy is necessary for any communities especially to tribals to improve their economy and living condition. Although progress has been made by Scheduled Tribes in terms of literacy, still more attention needed by the government official, politicians, think tankers and policy makers for the tribals in the state.