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I. The Economy of California: How It has Developed and How It is Related to the Educational System -- A Few Introductory Remarks -- Income in California -- The Population of the State -- A First View of Labor Force -- California Manufacturing -- Occupations, Present and Projected -- The Public Sector in California -- II. Structure of the Education System in California -- The Structure of Education -- School Districts are Independent Units of Government -- Unequal Resources for Education -- The Growing Role of Federal Aid -- Complex System of Coordination -- State Board Controls are Limited but Rigidities are Present -- The Private Elementary and Secondary Schools -- The System of Higher Education -- Financing -- Differentiated Admission -- High Rates of Drop-out -- Access to Higher Education -- Enrollments -- An Overview of Education in California -- III. The Expansion of Education in California: A Closer Examination -- Projections of Educational Out-turn and the Problem of Educated Unemployed -- Expenditure Flows in Different Branches of the California Education System -- The Rising Concern with Internal Efficiency -- Public Elementary and Secondary Schools -- The University of California -- Alternatives for Fiscal Reform -- The Schools -- Higher Education -- The Social Efficiency of California's Educational Enterprises -- IV. Planning — Success or Failure? -- State Budgeting for Public Higher Education -- The Master Plan: Its Relations to Annual Budgeting -- The Period of Disenchantment -- Program Budgeting: Another Failure? -- Manpower Planning -- V. Adult Education in California -- The 'Hidden' Adult Education Activity -- Business and Industry -- Government -- The Military -- Poverty Programs -- Television -- Correspondence -- Proprietary Schools -- 'Free' Universities -- Other Programs -- More Visible Adult Education Programs -- The University -- General Extension -- Agricultural Extension -- The State Colleges -- Community or Junior College -- Secondary Schools -- The Extended University -- VI. Future Trends in California's Educational System -- The Changing Functions of Education in California and the Consequences for Planning -- Implications for Policy -- Bibliography — A selection -- Biographical Notes.

Preface -- 1. Introduction: Scope and limits of the prospective inquiry -- 2. Historical background: Questions of terminology, socio-economic factors and ideological issues -- 3. The present situation and current changes -- 4. Medium- and long-term trends -- 5. Guidance and career choice -- 6. Polyvalency and permanent education -- 7. Technical and vocational training for women -- 8. University, post-secondary education and recurrent education -- 9. Division of labour: old and new models -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Tables and comments on replies to questionnaire -- Appendix B: Gino Martinoli: Thoughts on the training of tomorrow's manpower -- Appendix C: Questionnaire -- Biographical notes.

There was once agreement that education was too important to be left to politicians; now the view is that education is too important to be left to teachers. With this in mind, this book examines the role of the state in education in many different countries and cultures

The gap between the demands placed on education in Australia and the resources allocated to it by government has increased dramatically in recent years. The education system is expected to absorb youth unemployment and play a key role in the modernisation of the economy, yet education spending as a proportion of GDP has declined. The notion of education as being important for its own sake and a key to equality in society seems to have been set aside, and economics now dominates debate on education policy. This book summarises and analyses the major issues in Australian education policy today: the relationship between education and work; the reform of higher education and vocational training; outputs, resources and class sizes; the role of government and the public/private debate in schooling. It also examines the main economic theories about education, including human capital theory and free market theory, and finds them seriously inadequate as a basis for policy. The author argues that economic rationalism has installed a free market agenda at the heart of public education policy, with deep consequences for the academic and democratic development of Australia's citizens

Notably, this field has been challenged by women's studies and gender research. However, research carried out in the 1990s has shown that gender equality must let itself be challenged by the differences between the Nordic countries. Similarly, issues of equality are highlighted when theories of diversity are brought into play, and when comparisons are made between, for instance, a Nordic country and Australia

This book focuses on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context. The contributors emphasize the relationship between private choices and public policy as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools, colleges, and universities. Their essays examine the kinds of choices offered by each sector, as well as the effects of present and proposed public policies on the intersectoral division of labor. Written from neither a pro-private nor a pro-public point of view, the contributors point to the ways in which they believe one sect

Possible Futures of European Education -- 1. On General Problems of Social Forecasts -- 2. Forecasts of Educational Expenditures in Fourteen European Countries and the United States -- 3. A Systems Prognostication of the European Social System -- 4. On a Theory of Education -- 5. Trends in the System's Development -- 6. Summary -- How Should the Future be Studied? -- Social and Cultural Futures in Western Europe a Framework for Analysis -- 1. Social Change or Continuity — Problems in Social and Cultural Futures -- 2. A sociological framework for Hypothetical Futures -- 3. The dynamics of social Change and Discontinuity -- 4. Emerging European Futures — The Basic Qualitative Dilemma -- Biographical Notes.

I Structural and Educational Developments in the Primary School -- 1. Aims of Education -- 2. Innovations in the Structures of Primary Education -- 3. Progress in Educational Psychology -- 4. Personality, Family and Social Factors of Achievement -- II The Curriculum in the Primary School -- 5. Mathematics -- 6. Social Studies -- 7. Artistic and Creative Activity -- Biographical Notes.

This book gives a brief account of how social and economic changes have an impact on the Singapore education system, bearing in mind that education and national development are closely related. Besides providing a short history of education in Singapore, the book discusses how the New Education System(NES) was implemented, public response to streaming, and the impact of the NES on educational wastage and attainments

Front Cover; Politics and Education: Cases from Eleven Nations; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The Symbiotic Linking of Politics and Education; Meanings Assigned to Education and Politics; A Model of Politics-Education Interaction; Functions of Influence; Strategies for Exerting Influence; Conclusion; PART I: STRATEGIES FOR USING EDUCATION TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL ENDS; Chapter 2. WEST GERMANY: Educational Policy as Compensatory Legitimation; The Erosion of Legitimacy and the State's Response; Strategies of Compensatory Legitimation in West German Educational; Policy.

I Introduction -- II Educational Ideas in the Past -- III The Socialist Countries (1945–1970) -- VI Western Europe from 1945 to 1970 -- A. The Growth of School and University Populations -- B. Conscqucnccs of Expansion -- C. Continuing Social Inequality -- D. Educational Reforms and Suggested Reforms -- V Basic Data Concerning the Year 2000 -- VI Prospects for the Socialist Countries up to the Year 2000 -- VII Prospects for Western Europe up to 2000 -- VIII Natural Inequality of Children at Birth -- IX Conclusion -- Biographical Notes.