The paper examines cognition from the viewpoint of internal management teams of private universities against satisfaction with school performance, applying the SEM model. Empirical results show that the board's operational effectiveness and attendance rate for internal important meetings held on...

There is a persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some argue that school franchises offer educational services more effectively than do small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large, centralized operations create hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster...

The literature has not sufficiently engaged the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of Slave export. This article contributes to the existing stream by examining the role of human capital or intelligence on slave exports. We postulate and justify a reasonable hypothesis that countries...

Polish Abstract: Alfabetyzm finansowy - ze względu bezpośrednie związki z aktywnością jednostek, sektorów finansowych oraz społeczeństw - jawi się jako zasadniczy problem w teorii i praktyce ekonomicznej doby współczesnej. Niniejsze opracowanie poświęcone jest jego charakterystyce,...

In 2016, Maryland's educational freedom ranking rose to 46th place—above New York, Hawaii, California, and New Jersey—from 50th in the Cato Institute's Freedom in the 50 States index. The improvement was due to the state's adoption of the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students...

Most school systems grant teachers and school principals considerable discretion in grade retention decisions. This paper argues that schools can exploit this discretion by selectively retaining students to reduce class size which potentially has important implications for public spending on...

NOTE: This is the abstract of an older working paper version archived for access to auxiliary results that do not appear in the published version. Please e-mail the author if you need access to this version. The view that the returns to public educational investments are highest for early...

This paper argues that the University system is under great pressure from industry (society) to deliver such finished products (graduates) from its system so as to be directly absorbed into industry and that too at a mass scale and in a short period of time.For this the University system has to...