Education and national development
It is suggested in this paper that educators give serious thought to boarding schools to help reduce the cumulative achievement deficit between most middle and lower class children in the United States. The author recalls his own experience with boarding schools in Nigeria, reviews the ineffectiveness of compensatory education in America, and summarizes the history of residential schooling in Europe and North America. It is pointed out that many of the privileged in this society have long enjoyed the alternative of boarding schools while the only residential institutions available to most of the poor are the armed forces and the puoiit j~ils.
Parents’ Involvement in Malaysian Autonomous Schools
One of the fundamental aspects underlying the implementation of the autonomous schools in Malaysia is the School-Based Management (SBM) practices. Previous studies indicated that SBM is viewed as a means of incorporating the voices of parents, teachers and the community in the school management in a formal manner. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the level of parents’ involvement in Malaysian autonomous school activities as perceived by teachers. The data for the study was obtained using questionnaire from 60 autonomous schools in Malaysia. A set of questionnaire consisting 20 items using the 10 Likert scales were answered by 788 respondents (teachers of autonomous schools). The findings shows that parents are among the stakeholders of Malaysian autonomous schools who are involved in the process of school policy-making and their involvement is relatively high in all school activities, where they always provide moral and material support to the schools; showing concern towards their children’s learning process and school improvement in general; cooperating with schools to improve students’ discipline and; attending periodical parent-teacher meetings. Furthermore, the findings also show that there is a pattern of parents’ involvement in each activity according to varies categories and types of autonomous schools. While, the MANOVA analysis reveals that there is a significant differences among the autonomous schools in the level of parents’ involvement regardless of their types and categories. Thus, the findings verify that the parents’ involvement in autonomous school activities is in line with the tenet of SBM which highlights parents’ roles in improving the function of the school as crucial education provider.
Simulation Analysis of Local Heat Treatment Formability of an Aerospace Aluminum Alloy Frame Parts
Wang Zhijian1,a, Guo Fangyu1,b, Shang Xiaofeng1,c, Song Hongwu2,d, Wang Ling3,e and Wang Jiale1,f 1School of Mechatronics Engineering, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang 110136, China 2Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang 110016, China 3Shenyang aircraft industry company, Shenyang 110134, China aWangzhijian1974@sina.com, b1486121506@qq.com, c1009074102@qq.com dhwsong@imr.ac.cn, ew_ling2008@aliyun.com, f1591897439@qq.com