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This volume investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China's hundreds of millions of rural residents. But with college graduates struggling to find good jobs, some are questioning the exam's legitimacy - and, by extension, the fairness of Chinese society. Chronicling the experiences of underprivileged youth, Zachary M. Howlett's research illuminates how people remain captivated by the exam because they regard it as fateful - an event both consequential and undetermined.

Gaokao (Educational test) --- Universities and colleges --- Social aspects. --- Entrance examinations --- Chinese national college entrance exam. --- Gaokao. --- education inequality Gaokaov, rural-to-urban migration, college admission corruption Gaokao. --- Social aspects --- Achievement tests --- Achievement tests. --- Entrance examinations. --- China.

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Studying and managing regional economic development in the current globalization era demands prompt, reliable, and comparable estimates for a region’s economic performance. Night-time lights (NTL) emitted from residential areas, entertainment places, industrial facilities, etc., and captured by satellites have become an increasingly recognized proxy for on-ground human activities. Compared to traditional indicators supplied by statistical offices, NTLs may have several advantages. First, NTL data are available all over the world, providing researchers and official bodies with the opportunity to obtain estimates even for regions with extremely poor reporting practices. Second, in contrast to non-standardized traditional reporting procedures, the unified NTL data remove the problem of inter-regional comparability. Finally, NTL data are currently globally available on a daily basis, which makes it possible to obtain these estimates promptly. In this book, we provide the reader with the contributions demonstrating the potential and efficiency of using NTL data as a proxy for the performance of regions.

Research & information: general --- population reorganization --- population density --- spatiotemporal patterns --- DMSP-OLS --- NPP-VIIRS --- Chongqing --- education inequality --- nighttime light --- urbanization --- sustainable development --- human development --- urban hotspot delineation --- Zipf's law --- intra-urban scaling --- street nodes --- VIIRS imagery --- kernel density estimation --- Luojia 1-01 satellite --- spatial resolution --- searching radius threshold --- urban built-up area --- attention-augmented CNN --- nightlight --- fine-grained GDP estimation --- daytime satellite imagery --- arbitrary area representation --- Luojia 1-01 --- MNUACI --- urban area --- urban remote sensing --- VIIRS --- DMSP --- GDP --- nighttime lights --- cross-sectional --- time-series --- economic statistics --- functional urban areas (FUAs) --- boundaries --- multiple regression modelling --- artificial light-at-night (ALAN) --- optimal threshold --- shadow economy --- Iran --- sanctions --- JCPOA --- economic inequality --- nighttime light emissions --- spatial measurement

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The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. 0This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. 'A Federal Right to Education' provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.

Right to education --- Educational equalization --- Law and legislation --- Right to learn --- Civil rights --- Education, Compulsory --- Education and state --- Educational law and legislation --- American dream. --- Constitution. --- Education Amendment. --- Latinas. --- Latinos. --- Spending Clause. --- Supreme Court. --- achievement gap. --- achievement gaps. --- adequacy litigation. --- adequate education. --- at-risk students. --- civic participation. --- constitutional amendment. --- constitutional interpretation. --- criminal justice. --- education federalism. --- education inadequacies. --- education inequality. --- educational opportunity gaps. --- educational opportunity. --- equal access to an excellent education. --- equal citizenship. --- equal education. --- equal educational opportunity. --- equal liberty. --- equal opportunity. --- equal protection. --- evidence-based reforms. --- excellent and equitable educational opportunity. --- federal education legislation. --- federal government. --- federal right to education. --- federal role in education. --- fiscal capacity. --- high-quality education. --- just society. --- libertystate constitutional rights. --- opportunity gap. --- opportunity gaps. --- opportunity to compete. --- originalism. --- political will. --- privileges and immunities. --- right to education. --- segregation. --- sovereignty. --- state constitutions. --- state courts. --- state education chiefs. --- state fiscal equity litigation. --- state legislatures. --- state school finance litigation. --- substantive due process.

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Studying and managing regional economic development in the current globalization era demands prompt, reliable, and comparable estimates for a region’s economic performance. Night-time lights (NTL) emitted from residential areas, entertainment places, industrial facilities, etc., and captured by satellites have become an increasingly recognized proxy for on-ground human activities. Compared to traditional indicators supplied by statistical offices, NTLs may have several advantages. First, NTL data are available all over the world, providing researchers and official bodies with the opportunity to obtain estimates even for regions with extremely poor reporting practices. Second, in contrast to non-standardized traditional reporting procedures, the unified NTL data remove the problem of inter-regional comparability. Finally, NTL data are currently globally available on a daily basis, which makes it possible to obtain these estimates promptly. In this book, we provide the reader with the contributions demonstrating the potential and efficiency of using NTL data as a proxy for the performance of regions.

population reorganization --- population density --- spatiotemporal patterns --- DMSP-OLS --- NPP-VIIRS --- Chongqing --- education inequality --- nighttime light --- urbanization --- sustainable development --- human development --- urban hotspot delineation --- Zipf’s law --- intra-urban scaling --- street nodes --- VIIRS imagery --- kernel density estimation --- Luojia 1-01 satellite --- spatial resolution --- searching radius threshold --- urban built-up area --- attention-augmented CNN --- nightlight --- fine-grained GDP estimation --- daytime satellite imagery --- arbitrary area representation --- Luojia 1-01 --- MNUACI --- urban area --- urban remote sensing --- VIIRS --- DMSP --- GDP --- nighttime lights --- cross-sectional --- time-series --- economic statistics --- n/a --- functional urban areas (FUAs) --- boundaries --- multiple regression modelling --- artificial light-at-night (ALAN) --- optimal threshold --- shadow economy --- Iran --- sanctions --- JCPOA --- economic inequality --- nighttime light emissions --- spatial measurement --- Zipf's law