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Book review:- The economics of schooling and school quality [A book review from: Economics of Education Review]
J. Merrifield
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This digital document is a journal article from Economics of Education Review, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The demand for primary schooling in Madagascar: Price, quality, and the choice between public and private providers [An article from: Journal of Development Economics]

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The demand for primary schooling in Madagascar: Price, quality, and the choice between public and private providers [An article from: Journal of Development Economics]
P. Glick , and D.E. Sahn
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Development Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We estimate a discrete choice model of primary schooling and simulate policy alternatives for rural Madagascar. Among school quality factors, the results highlight the negative impacts on schooling demand of poor facility quality and the use of multigrade teaching (several grades being taught simultaneously by one teacher) in public schools. Simulations indicate the feasibility of reducing multigrade in public schools by adding teachers and classrooms, a policy that would lead to modest improvements in overall enrollments and would disproportionately benefit poor children. Given much higher price elasticities for poorer households, raising school fees to cover some of the additional costs would strongly counteract these favorable distributional outcomes. An alternative policy of consolidation of primary schools combined with multigrade reduction or other quality improvements is likely to be ineffective because of the strongly negative impact of distance to school.

The Economics of Schooling and School Quality (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)

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The Economics of Schooling and School Quality (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)
Eric Alan Hanushek
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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ASIN: 1840648287

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This authoritative two-volume collection brings together the most important published papers on the economics of schooling and school quality, issues which are at the heart of current intellectual and policy debates.

Volume I presents articles on labor markets, distribution, the structure of wages and wage inequality and the effects of schooling on economic growth. Volume II includes papers on efficiency, competition and finance and policy.

The mixture of classic papers and cutting edge research provides an invaluable reference source for both students, researchers and professionals.

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The Economics of Schooling and School Quality: Vol. 1, Labor Markets, Distribution and Growth; Vol. 2 Efficiency, Competition and Policy. [A book review ... Journal of Educational Development]
K. M Lewin
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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Educational Development, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The Economics of Schooling and School Quality (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)
Eric Alan Hanushek
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This book's rating is "seasonally adjusted"...

True Outlier

Terrible!!!! Don't waste your $$$$

Too many Errors

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Statistics
Ph.D., Sunny Baker
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If statistics intimidate you, if you don't know a standard deviation from a standard deduction, this book uses an almost-no-math approach to helping you understand and put together business reports. It is a step-by-step guide to choosing, using, and interpreting statistics for business. Instead of teaching you arithmetic, symbols, and calculations, it teaches you how to decide what data is necessary for a report.

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This book's rating is "seasonally adjusted"..........2005-11-30

...which means it really should be a 1 star.

Let me explain the "seasonal adjustment". The other reviews are right -- the book was edited by a complete idiot. Questions that seem simple enough ["what are the odds of choosing three blue blocks in a row?"] become laughably obscure when suddenly the "explanation" involves things completely out of the blue, like references to "your opponent." Huh? My opponent? What does an opponent have to do with picking three blue blocks in a row?

Frankly, your only opponent here is the editor. While the first three chapters are simple and clear, by about chapter four, the editing goes completely off the rails. Its almost like the editor spliced two separate books together using his "merge documents" function in Word and couldn't be bothered to hire a temp to proof the result.

But my score is "seasonally adjusted" up to two stars because, despite everything, I actually learned something from it. If you want to know what about a dozen of the most common stats terms mean, (many of which on your Excel spreadsheet) then you can think of this book as one of those "tourists' foreign language phrase books", only instead of the foreign language being Italian or Russian, its stats.

After all, most of us just want to walk into our company's research department, and speak enough of the local stats patois to haggle for a monthly market analysis equivalent of a rug without being charged for a camel. The book skips the theory and the arcane symbols (mostly) and just cuts to the chase. Within a weekend you will know what the heck your boss is blathering about when she talks about a z-score, and, if she asks you to seasonally adjust sales figures, then this book can help.

In fact, if you're the sort of person who doesn't mind a challenge, and can live with only one out of three examples being where they are supposed to be, or heck, two plus two equalling whatever the editor had for breakfast, the challenge can even be fun.

But all others: stay VERY far away, and consider this rating a minus one.

True Outlier.......2004-06-11

This book was, without question, the worst math oriented book I have had the mispleasure of buying or reading. As mention in other reviews, the calculations are often off leading a reader who is reading for the purpose of developing concepts to waste substantial amounts of time. Since time is, among other things, money, this book is way to expensive, even if you were given your copy of it.

Terrible!!!! Don't waste your $$$$.......2003-09-17

I bought the book in preparation for a collegiate stats class. The content wasn't neither accurate enough, complete enough, or well written enough to be of any benefit.

It is almost impossible for me to put into words how awful this book was. How can you learn statistics when the examples are wrong? You spend hours pondering the equations, only to realize they are errors from the author.

The author should either stick to topics they know, or stop churning these books out so fast that the quality resembles rotten eggs.

This was a rare book that inspired enough anger to write such a disparaging review.

Too many Errors.......2003-05-29

In preparation for business school I thought I'd brush up on my stats. But this book is making things even more confusing because of all the errors. Graphs are misplaced, calculations are off, and equations are wrong in way too many places. I wonder how this was ever published with so many mistakes.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Statistics

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Statistics
Sunny Baker
Manufacturer: Alpha
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O91Y3Y

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Royalty Free - ReadySetPresent (Inspirational Quotes): Keep your audience focused and engaged by using our carefully selected collection of thoughtful, witty and humorous quotes. Use in a presentation with an LCD projector, make handouts, and create overheads. This topic includes 25 quotes, slide transitions, clipart and animation. It is a must-have supplement for anyone interested in presenting on these or related topics. Packaged on 3.5" floppy disk/s. PC compatible. You may use this product over and over again.

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Turning Yellow Pages to Gold
Thomas G. Foster
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This book leads you through the process of making the best choices for your ad - the right directories and headings, the best type and size ad, most effective copy, best visuals, color requirements and best layout. It tells you what you must know:

-Creative rules for listings, in-column ads and display ads.
-When color pays and when it actully reduces sales.
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-When an in-column ad is better than a costly display ad.
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-The critical headline rule.

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One of the basic books on electronic commerce.......2000-05-02

I think that "Readings in Electronic Commerce" is a good theoretical explanation of the electronic commerce practice, like other two books by the same authors.

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Readings in Electronic Commerce: Sphigs Software
Ravi Kalakota
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Great price for this textbook!.......2007-07-23

I needed this book for an online class I am taking and the price was much lower than the bookstore!! Thanks Amazon!

Emphasis On Ethics.......2002-02-22

Richard J. Severson's "The Principals Of Information Ethics"
was first published about 5 years ago but is still very relevant.
It is written in a casual style, and is an easy read. The emphasis is on ethics, which, according to Severson, lie somewhere between our morals and the things for which we are applying morals to. It does contain some of the author's opinions, but is mostly objective.

Ethics, Accountability, and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives) (Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives)

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Ethics, Accountability, and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives) (Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives)
Richard J. Cox
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Ethical principles and information professionals: theory, practice and education.: An article from: Australian Academic & Research Libraries

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Ethical principles and information professionals: theory, practice and education.: An article from: Australian Academic & Research Libraries
Livia Iacovino
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This digital document is an article from Australian Academic & Research Libraries, published by Australian Library and Information Association on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 8121 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ethical principles and information professionals: theory, practice and education.
Author: Livia Iacovino
Publication: Australian Academic & Research Libraries (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Australian Library and Information Association
Volume: 33 Issue: 2 Page: 57(18)

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Backcasting and forecasting: what are the trends from yesterday towards tomorrow?

Quite a disappointing book...at least from the standpoint of thinking creatively!

Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times
Howard F., Jr. Didsbury
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This outstanding collection of essays offers thought-provoking insights on a range of future-shaping issues, such as harnessing the powers of a coming "digital transformation," creating more livable cities, dealing with the impacts of immigration, transforming school systems to meet the needs of the future economy, solving the drug-abuse problem through systems thinking, and overcoming traps in thinking about the future.

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Backcasting and forecasting: what are the trends from yesterday towards tomorrow?.......2007-05-11

Major trends that affect how we work today and how we will have to work in the future.
--If we want to stop killing ourselves by the tens of millions in violent conflict, we're going to have to get much smarter, because our genes haven't been able to solve that by themselves.
--However, Mulhall's vision of being "surpassed by our own creations" is not so clear. Being "smart" also has to do with intuition and imagination or is driven by intention, purpose, and the amazing power of curiosity. In this sense, machines are not now nor may never be smart, while humans are. Intelligence is the source of knowledge that helps people make imaginative and intelligent choices. Intelligence is the essence of order: defining the knowable and the known, the predictable, the expectable, and the dependable. "Smartness" on the other hand, has the flavor of the unpredictable, of opportunity, the unknown, and the surprise of innovation. NO change, no innovation, no scientific breakthroughs, no groundbreaking engineering insights, and no new expressions of art take place without this smartness. Smartness is just another word for "creativity with purposes".
--In every organization, trying to avoid traps in future thinking and being thirsty for success, whether operating in business, administration, education, or the academy, it would be good to have a kind of disturbance generator (DG) to keep you awake in front of the turbulent future(s). The tasks of a DG include asking odd questions concerning the basic assumptions and modes of operation in the organization from the future perspectives, identifying new important weak signals in the operating environment--in the economy, technology, world politics, societal issues, environment, values, etc.--having potential impacts on the organization's development, and producing innovations related to products, services, customers, modes of operation, strategies, and scenarios.
--The 21st century is being recognized as the "century of cities".
More than half of the world's population now live in cities, and the importance of urban environments has become even greater over recent decades. Cities are the key centers of human activity and the engines of economic growth throughout the world, a world that has been dramatically transformed and is more complex, more competitive, and better connected than ever before.
--"Home-basing" will be the next phase of disaggregating our vertically integrated Industrial Era enterprises, following "outsourcing" and "off-shoring".
--If given free time, humans tend to become unhappy, disordered, and unproductive. Surprisingly, people tend to find work more satisfying than free time. When we focus our minds we feel better.
Mental order leads to increased happiness and productivity.

Quite a disappointing book...at least from the standpoint of thinking creatively!.......2006-08-18

I am quite disappointed by this book. I find the contents, even though they are future-relevant, do not stand up to the title of 'Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times.'

Out of the rag-tag collection of twenty nine articles in this book, all from different contributors, I reckon only three pertains to thinking creatively. They are:

- Traps in Futures Thinking & How to Overcome Them, by Mika Mannermaa;
- Innovating for the Future, by Patrick van der Duin;
- Creativity, Innovation, & Visionary Thinking: Becoming All You Can Become, by Lynn Ellen Burton;

The rest are the typical stuff you would find in most publications from the World Future Society (WFS), as they pertain to how social & technological developments are shaping the future.

The back page of the book boldy carries this message: "The world changes so quickly it's hard to keep up. New inventions and innovations alter the way we live. People's values, attitudes, and beliefs are changing. And the pace of change keeps accelerating, making it difficult to prepare for tomorrow..." To reinforce this message of theirs, I would have expected more contributions in the book to help readers to think creatively in such turbulent times.

In other words, I would want to read more about 'process' information instead of overwhelming 'content' information.

I dont know. Maybe WFS is just trying to use a catchy title to attract readers to this particular publication.

I have always held the WFS in high esteem & many of their other publications I owned turn out to be great stuff. 'Futuring: The Exploration of the Future' by Edward Cornish is one good example.

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Exploring moral dimensions in leadership

What does it mean to be a leader? This book provides insights into the dimensions of moral leadership, at the center of which is caring. Through scenarios, vignettes, selected quotations, and personal stories, the author explores the moral possibilities of leadership. An extensive reference section offers additional in-depth readings.

For leaders, questions are more important than answers. The questions posed in each chapter encourage readers to reflect on their own experiences with leadership. By pondering and answering these questions, readers can experience the metamorphosis of discovery.

Whether you are a principal, administrator, school board member, teacher, coach, or guidance counselor, this book is written for you if you have the heart to care enough to lead.

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Caring Enough to Lead: Schools and the Sacred Trust.......2003-01-14

Pellicer's book was an excellent book for anyone in the education field. Through short essays, he gives a clear, sometimes humorous, always honest view of what it takes to be a successful leader. While reading this book, I was able to personalize many of the experiences he speaks of and apply the lessons that he has learned through the years to my own life and career goals. Because of the way it is written, the reader has the ability to "skip around" and read the chapters that seem the most pertinent at the time. As a classroom teacher, I found this book to be a source of inspiration to me--inspiration that I desperately need at this mid-year point! After reading his thought-provoking, encouraging essays, I think I might just be able to make it until the end of the school year after all!

Caring Enough to Lead---Schools and the Sacred Trust.......2002-12-18

Caring Enough to Lead was an easy to read, interesting, thought-provoking book. By sharing personal experiences and perspectives in his book, Dr. Pellicer helped me begin to understand what it means to be a leader and to focus on some of the attributes and attitudes of an effective leader. The questions at the end of the chapters caused me to stop and reflect on my role as a leader in my school and in my classroom. The short chapters in the book enabled me to read one or more chapters at a time depending on how much time I had available.

Caring Enough to Lead.......2002-12-04

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dr. Pellicer's book, Caring Enough to Lead. It was easy to read and very entertaining while at the same time very applicable for teachers in any situation. It gently reminds us of why we choose teaching in the first place, to touch lives. Dr. Pellicer also reflects on several ways to lead as well as the responsibilities that come with leadership. It was easy to reflect on myself as a leader as I was reading this book. I was able to relate my own experiences to most of his chapters. His writing style of vignettes and questions was fun and unique to read. The short chapters made it convenient to read a chapter or two at a sitting and come back to it later.

Caring Enough to Lead.......2002-12-04

This book, written by an education professor, should be required reading for everyone in the field of education. It is a very readable challenge to educators to reflect on their beliefs, practices, and reasons for becoming an educator. While reading the book, I highlighted many passages in order to come back to them and to share them with colleagues in the future. In reflecting on a career in education, the book helped reaffirm my belief that it is important to care about others and pointed out the fact that it is important to care about yourself also. This is a book that educators and leaders can read without feeling burdened with a lot of theory or extra rhetoric. The entire book can be read at one time or it can be read in small segments. It is a book that causes soul-searching and one that should be in every professional library.

Caring Enough to Lead.......2002-12-04

Can a series of essays on leadership be described as pleasurable, thoughtful reading material? It can if it is Caring Enough to Lead by Pellicer. Pellicer presents twenty essays that are thought provoking as well as entertaining. Personal stories lead the reader into more in-depth philosophical questions about leadership. The essays contain countless statements that lead the reader to stop and think.
"Life affords us too few opportunities to show others how much we care, we can't afford to waste these opportunities."
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"Leadership is never about ruling others, it is about serving others."
"A good teacher can give a child power over his or her own life."
Pellicer feels that becoming a leader requires some who cares, excepts the responsibility of leading, and nourishes and supports others who care. All this is required in order to successfully educate our children.

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Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Processes provides a theoretical and practical introduction to decision criteria and inventory processes. Inventory theory is presented by focusing on the analysis and processes underlying decision criteria. Included are many state-of-the-art criterion models as background material. These models are extended to the authors' newly developed fuzzy criterion models which constitute a general framework for the study of stochastic inventory models with special focus on the real world inventory theoretic reservoir operations problems. The applications of fuzzy criterion dynamic programming models are illustrated by reservoir operations including the integrated network of reservoir operation and the open inventory network problems.
An interesting feature of this book is the special attention it pays to the analysis of some theoretical and applied aspects of fuzzy criteria and dynamic fuzzy criterion models, thus opening up a new way of injecting the much-needed type of non-cost, intuitive, and easy-to-use methods into multi-stage inventory processes. This is accomplished by constructing and optimizing the fuzzy criterion models developed for inventory processes.
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Strategic Management Handbook: Managing Growth With High Performance
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