...Equity and Progress in all Public Schools Name School Abstract Teachers are some of the most crucial elements in our society and still remain the unsung heroes for their talents and dedication. From inter-city to alternative/charter schools, they all face issues dealing with new technology, and updating and improving curriculum/learning. The list includes early-childhood education, class size along with teacher-student ratio, recruitment, improving student achievement and graduation rates. This list includes cultural issues on gender, race or ethnic issues in education and government issues like rural school issues and legalizing state lottery to fund public education. Some of the laws passed in recent years like ‘No Child Left Behind’ (NCLB) have resulted in teachers having to “teach to the test." Lawmakers and professionals need to pay closer attention to every aspect of educational issues prior to implementing laws that place unrealistic expectations on school personnel. Equity and Progress in all Public Schools Testing is used for diagnostic purposes to help teachers understand where students stand. In some cases, NCLB has been turned into an instrument that is used to reward and punish teachers and schools. The NCLB requires states to give students an annual test in reading and math and in 10 years all students are supposed to test as "proficient." One flaw with NCLB is tying the standards and achievements to funding from the federal government. The law states;...
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...Equity and Equality Jaime Matta Concordia Online Community of Learners EDGR 595 Karen Billette February 27, 2012 Educational equity refers to equal access, opportunities, and expectations in education for all persons, irrespective of their backgrounds or status. As a democratic nation, the United States offers a system of "universal" and free public education as a primary mechanism for providing equal educational access and opportunities to all persons, for preparing its people for civic participation in society, and for the socialization of immigrants. The basic premise of public schooling in our school district is that students at all grade levels are entitled to equal learning opportunities irrespective of advantages, disadvantages, or liabilities linked to skin color, ethnicity, disability, or socioeconomic status. An open system of public education serves as a key compensatory strategy to minimize individual differences and to equalize potential achievements and life outcomes for all. To achieve this end, attendance in public schools became compulsory in most states by the start of the 20th century. Specifically, the words equality and equity have different meanings. Equity speaks to public actions and policies in the cause of fairness and social justice. It requires a sufficient distribution of social resources to rectify initially unequal conditions for different groups of people. Equal access to educational opportunity has been a central issue of legal, educational...
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...quity and Equality Equity and Equality Jaime Matta Concordia Online Community of Learners EDGR 595 Karen Billette February 27, 2012 Educational equity refers to equal access, opportunities, and expectations in education for all persons, irrespective of their backgrounds or status. As a democratic nation, the United States offers a system of "universal" and free public education as a primary mechanism for providing equal educational access and opportunities to all persons, for preparing its people for civic participation in society, and for the socialization of immigrants. The basic premise of public schooling in our school district is that students at all grade levels are entitled to equal learning opportunities irrespective of advantages, disadvantages, or liabilities linked to skin color, ethnicity, disability, or socioeconomic status. An open system of public education serves as a key compensatory strategy to minimize individual differences and to equalize potential achievements and life outcomes for all. To achieve this end, attendance in public schools became compulsory in most states by the start of the 20th century. Specifically, the words equality and equity have different meanings. Equity speaks to public actions and policies in the cause of fairness and social justice. It requires a sufficient distribution of social resources to rectify initially unequal conditions for different groups of people. Equal access to educational opportunity has been a central...
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...FORE School of Management A DISSERTATION REPORT ON Impact of Basel III norms on select Indian & European banks Submitted By: DEEPANSHU CHANDRA, 053009 FORE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, DELHI A Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of Post Graduate Diploma Program in Management SUBMITTED TO: Faculty Guide: Prof. Sanghamitra Buddhapriya FORE School of Management 1 FORE School of Management CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Mr. Deepanshu Chandra has completed his Dissertation under my guidance and has submitted this project report entitled Impact of Basel III norms on select Indian and European banks towards partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Post Graduate Diploma Program in Management (FORE, Delhi) 2011-2013. This Report is the result of his own work and to the best of our knowledge. This project was carried out under my overall supervision. Date: Place: ---------------------------------- Prof. Sanghamitra Buddhapriya (Faculty Guide) FORE School of Management 2 FORE School of Management ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who helped me in the successful completion of my Dissertation. To start with, I would like to thank the organization FORE School of Management for providing me the chance to undertake this Dissertation. I wish to place on records, my deep sense of gratitude and sincere appreciation to my Mentor, Prof. Sanghamitra Buddhapriya, Faculty...
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...CRITICAL ESSAY: COMPENSATION EQUITY IN CHINA Hou Guangjian ABSTRACT In China presently, employees receive different compensation according to all kinds of ad hoc definitions of external equity, internal equity and individual equity. Consequently, employee attitudes toward work and social status are affected. If the government would provide people with access to better education, legal measures that guarantee fair competition, and training opportunities to people who have need, the Chinese people would have greater reason to believe that improved compensation equity will be realized in the future. INTRODUCTION Two years after the death of late chairman Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping launched century. During the past twenty-five years, the country has witnessed tremendous gains in economy and social wealth in general. Although, on the average, people are leading a much better life, the gap between rich and the poor is becoming larger. As a large developing country in a transition period from a planned economy to a market economy, China at present has to adopt a de facto policy of “letting a few people get rich first” to stimulate enthusiasm and initiative for the rest of the population. Thus, the usual egalitarianism -- what Chinese term the “Large Bowl” -- has been smashed. People working at similar jobs receive different compensation. Various ad hoc definitions of external equity, internal equity and individual equity influence compensation and, consequently, employee attitudes toward...
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...consistently moving forward. The Wisconsin school system also claims to have a proud history of progressive education. Wisconsin was granted statehood on May 29, 1848, becoming the 30th state. It was in this same year that Wisconsin first recognized public education, and began dialogue on ways to finance it. Wisconsin Constitution, Article X, Section 3 states that, “The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable.” Established school districts were handed the authority to govern the schooling in their region, and were given the power to tax in order to fund school development. According to Maher, Skidmore and Statz (2007) it was decided that the school districts should be funded through local property taxes, which presented further challenges. This created a heavy reliance on local property taxes, leading to frustration for taxpayers. The second major challenge was that all districts were different in size and demographic, therefore this created a disparity between districts in their ability to raise money through taxes. The state was forced to provide financial aid due to the inequity in dollars that could be raised between districts. The state set up financial aid, the Common School Fund or Library Aid. Maher et al. (2007) state that, “Initially, this support was provided to every school in the form of a flat amount of aid per pupil. This original aid, the Common School Fund or Library Aid, had as its purpose...
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... American public schools found themselves faced with continued challenges in the efforts to equalize access to educational opportunities for African American children. This period of transition was the result of actions that began nearly half a century earlier. On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Reactions to the decision were varied and touched a range of emotions among nearly all citizens of the United States. For some, Brown was heralded as the triumph over legal barriers to better educational opportunities for racial/ethnic and minority students. Yet, for others, it endangered a way of life that in the eyes of some, ensured “separate but equal” under Plessy vs. Ferguson (1898). Whatever the perspective, Brown meant a departure from past rules and values. It meant change. Problem In “Public Education in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: High Hopes, Broken Promises, and an Uncertain Future,” Nieto (2005) outlines key legislation over the past seventy-five years in U.S. education that has aided in leveling the educational outcomes for minority students. After the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), policies aimed at providing equal opportunities to racial/ ethnic and minority groups began to emerge. As such, changes in population in terms of race, ethnicity, social class, and other differences helped to form the educational experiences of all students in U.S. public schools along with...
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...Vs. Equity: People and The Law Throughout the history of mankind and specially in modern times, many struggles emerged from people’s suppressed anger and hatred of the feudalism and the ruling monopolistic powers, and in their effort to create a system most suitable to their wants and desires and what they take as “values” and “rights” they stumbled on what is to this very day one of the most important and complicated dilemmas of human philosophy: how do we choose between equality and equity? What is the better choice? Do we prefer similarity or justice? And many questions as such, and as other ideas and ideologies go, it remains a major dispute among masses and masses of workers, farmers, countrymen as well as land owners, businessmen and politicians alike, and in many ways it is quite normal, the essence of both those ideas appear the same and are often put in the same category, but in reality they very far from each other on many levels and points of view and they represent systems that do show resemblance but are almost entirely different in functionality and order. Nancy Kranich; Based upon Jorge Schement, "Imagining Fairness: Equality and Equity of Access in Search of Democracy," in Nancy Kranich, Libraries and Democracy, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2001: 15-27. Nancy Kranich’s education is as follows: MA, Library Science, University of Wisconsin— Madison; MPA, New York University Wagner School of Public Service;...
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...UVA-F-1537 INVESTURE, LLC, AND SMITH COLLEGE In January 2004, Alice Handy’s new investment advisory firm, Investure, LLC, was attempting to land its first client, Smith College, an elite liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts with a $913 million endowment. Handy, fresh from her previous position as chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO), had 25 years of experience managing money and a track record of success. Over her career, Handy had directed increasing amounts of funds to a class of investments known as “alternative assets,” which included a range of investments other than publicly traded stocks and bonds. She had also developed a philosophy about their use and principles that she hoped would guide her new company to success. Mindful that in the investment world “past returns were no guarantee of future returns,” Handy knew she would face challenges from the unprecedented flow of funds into alternative assets and competition from other advisors. Building a business would also require time, energy, and persistence. All of these concerns, however, were in the back of her mind. In the forefront was Smith College’s endowment. She and her partner, Bruce Miller, were eager to review Smith’s current portfolio and prepare asset allocations that would position the endowment for future success. Handy’s Career Handy began her career at Travelers Insurance in 1970 after receiving a bachelor’s ...
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...government to provide everyone with various goods and services. Let’s say, “ The state has decided to increase funding for public education. They are considering four alternatives to finance these expenditures. All four taxes would raise the same amount of revenue.” The four taxes proposed are as follows: a sales tax on food, a tax on families with school-age children, a sales tax on jewelry, and a property tax on vacation homes. Each of these four taxes will be analyzed based on the benefits principle and the principle of horizontal equity and then classified each tax as progressive, proportional, or regressive. We will use this information to determine which tax is best suited to finance public education. The benefits principle states that people should pay taxes based on the benefits they receive from government service. Jewelry is a luxury, therefore it is not a good that everyone needs. It is most commonly purchased by the wealthy and middle class. If a sales tax on jewelry is going to be used to fund public education, a public service, the benefits principle cannot be applied to this tax. Because a majority of middle and upper class citizens send their children to private school rather than public school, they are not receiving the government benefit of paying this tax on jewelry. If however, the purchasers of jewelry do send their children to public school, this tax would be supported by the benefits principle for said group of people. Vacation homes are again another luxury...
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...accounting for owners’ equity (share capital and reserves) – accounting for liabilities (with a focus on debentures) – accounting for income tax – accounting for leases – accounting for non-current assets (revaluation, impairment) – accounting for intangible assets – a comprehensive coverage of consolidation issues – equity investments. Research School of Accounting and Business Information Systems 2 Lecture outcomes • Outcome 1: An understanding of the regulatory environment in which the companies are formed and operate in Australia. • Outcome 2: A solid foundation in accounting and reporting requirements of the Corporations Act and relevant Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) accounting standards. • Outcome 3: A comprehensive understanding of the advanced issues in accounting for assets, liabilities and owner’s equity. • Outcome 4: The ability to account for income taxes. • Outcome 5: The ability to account for leases. Research School of Accounting and Business Information Systems 3 1 Lecture outcomes • Outcome 6: The ability to account for intangible assets. • Outcome 7: An understanding of the accounting requirements for a corporate group and familiarity with the theory underlying the methods used to account for intercompany investments. • Outcome 8: The ability to prepare consolidated accounts for a corporate group. • Outcome 9: An understanding of the basic principles of accounting for investments in associates. Research School of Accounting and...
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...Cost and EQuity in access paper by Gada Korayim UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDU 628 - Professor Tatiana Melguizo Due Date: March 8, 2015 Introduction The diversity of colleges in the higher education landscape stems from the diversity of missions. For one, the obstacles to innovation in higher education in the USA has been a debate for years. There are colleges that focus on liberal arts education as Dr. Liz Coleman (TED Talks) lectured during her speech about “Reinventing the Liberal Arts Education”. There are colleges that focus on career development. According to Fortino (2015), the university mission is “to create more prepared minds” to contribute to society by creating jobs and innovative opportunities that will improve economies. Fortino (2015) mentioned that the former President of Harvard University, Dr. Derek Bok, discussed the dangers of commercializing higher education when colleges and universities turn their attention to commercial development of their inventions. This apparently is what is being seen on campuses and in universities today. When the focus is placed on commercialization, universities are placed under pressure to produce output and seek profitable, income based outputs, and the main mission and vision of universities can fade and disappear. Governments provide funding to universities and provide laboratories, equipment, books, etc. The desired output is to produce students that have a commercial...
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...Approaches to Equity in Policy for Lifelong Learning Ben Levin1 A paper commissioned by the Education and Training Policy Division, OECD, for the Equity in Education Thematic Review August 2003 EQUITY IN EDUCATION The opinions expressed in this paper are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of the governments of its Member countries. 1 . Ben Levin, Ph D, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................................ 2 APPROACHES TO EQUITY IN POLICY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING ................................................. 3 Origins of this report ................................................................................................................................... 3 Summary of the report................................................................................................................................. 3 PART 1 – THINKING ABOUT EQUITY IN LIFELONG LEARNING ...................................................... 5 A definition of equity? ................................................................................................................................ 5 The importance of equity ............................................................................................................................ 5 Current status of equity ......
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...orient ourselves by looking at several basic questions: · What is labor relations and what does it strive to accomplish? · Why do we care? · How did labor unions come into being? · Are labor unions effective? What is the first thing you think of when you hear the term “labor relations?” I would venture to bet that some of the plausible responses would be: * labor unions * strikes * collective bargaining * protesters * conflict The aforementioned all seems to conjure up images of labor unions. It is important to stress here that labor relations is not merely labor unions. Rather, labor relations should be viewed more broadly. Labor unions arose as a mechanism to address efficiency, equity, and voice. (Budd, 2010, p. 12) U.S. labor law protects union activity in order to promote: * Efficiency: increasing the purchasing...
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...in the “miseducation” of black students when curriculum in public schools only catered to European history. Segregation and discrimination is a significant part of American history. Banks (2008) considers citizenship at what cost to heritage, home, culture and language. The public schools system actions reveal their view and status of non-white children in the school system and restrict the opportunity and acceptance of identity among other children. Nkomo and Ariss (2014) distinguishes that in the past white privilege was overt, unashamed discrimination, but although it is more subtle, it is thriving in modern times. The learning environment fosters identity and societal norms based on past segregation and existing discrimination. As one parent mentioned in Holme’s (2002) study, “you clearly know where not to send your child.” As white-privileged parents continue to have conversations and can afford the opportunity to send their children to better schools the issues regarding equality continue. While they relegate non-white and poor children to zoned areas with poor quality schools, the issue of identity and invisible lines continue to define one’s place in society while widening the gap for improved equity in education (Holme,...
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