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The Future of Public Employee Retirement Systems
People covered by public pensions are often the subject of ‘pension envy’, that is, their benefits might seem more generous and their contributions lower than those offered by the private sector. Yet this book points out that such judgments are often inaccurate, since civil servants hold jobs with few counterparts in private industry, such as firefighters, police, judges, and teachers. Often these are riskier, dirtier, and demand more loyalty and discretion than would be required of a more mobile labour force in the private sector. The debate challenges traditional ideas about how the public employee labour contract is structured and raises questions about how such employees are attracted to the public sector, retained and motivated on the job, and retired, via an entire compensation package of wages and benefits. This book explores aspects of these schemes, addressing the cost and valuation debate, along with the political economy of how public pension asset pools are perceived and managed. The discussion also explores ways that public pensions can be strengthened in the US, Japan, Canada, and Germany.
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Effects of Course Content and Teacher Sex on the Social Climate of Learning
A multivariate analysis of covariance was used to examine the relationship of teacher sex and course content on 15 dimensions of the social climate of learning. Sixty-two high school classes in science, mathematics, the humanities and French comprised the sample and the Learning Environment Inventory scales served as dependent variables. Neither teacher sex nor its interaction with course content produced a statistically significant effect on classroom social climate. Course content itself, however, revealed three statistically significant dimensions of discrimination. The first discriminant axis separated mathematics classes from the others; on the second axis, humanities were at one extreme with science at the other; French classes were separated from the rest on the third axis. Mathematics classes were characterized by high Friction, Favoritism, Difficulty, Cliqueness and Disorganization and low Formality and Goal Direction. Science classes were perceived as formal and fast-moving with little Friction, Cliqueness and Disorganization. Humanities classes were paced and \"easy\" as compared to classes in science and mathematics. French classes, on the other hand, were considered formal, fast-paced, goal directed groups without high levels of Friction or Disorganization.
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Effects of Classroom Social Climate on Individual Learning
Fourteen social climate properties of school classes were related to gains on four measures of learning in an attempt to explore group influence on the individual. Step-wise multiple regression analysis with product and quadratic terms was employed to relate characteristics of the class, represented by class means scores on the \"Learning Environment Inventory\", to residually-adjusted measures of learning for individuals within the class. A large number of statistically significant relationships occurred between such climate dimensions as class intimacy, cliqueness, friction and difficulty and the four learning criteria. The findings suggest that classroom social climate does affect individual learning, and that climate properties affect learning differentially for various measures of learning and for students differing in sex and mental ability.
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A Canadian Alternative to the External Doctorate: The Open Access Study Plan
Serving the needs of the large, sparsely populated Atlantic region of Canada, the Atlantic Institute of Halifax manages to bring resources and students together with a minimum of expense and trauma.
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Curriculum Effects on the Social Climate of Learning: A New Representation of Discriminant Functions
Student perceptions of the social climates of learning in a national sample of physics classes were related to three effects: course being used; teacher experience with the course; and method of selecting teacher. Pupils in the three groups did perceive differences in their social climates of learning, and these were stronger for course effects than for teacher effects. Classes using the experimental course were perceived as less difficult and goal directed, more diverse, and as having a more positive environment. The experimental classes had less friction among students and fewer friendship cliques. Teachers experienced with the course had classes perceived as less democratic and intimate, with larger tendencies toward clique formation, teacher favoritism and friction among classmates. Finally, students of randomly selected teachers indicated that their classes were more difficult, goal directed and intimate than those of volunteer teachers.
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Ottawa waste comes from workers' pockets
Awakened, I thought of snow running down sleeves, dangerous power lines -- and Ottawa bureaucrats using 35 per cent of those workers' paycheques to take themselves to Grey Cup games and drink wine...
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Duncan patients can't be on that Web site
\"Flawed\" is probably too gentle a way to put it. Hip replacement median wait time is listed at 22.6 weeks.
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