Research supports the anecdotal observation that unmarried mothers and their children face greater obstacles and suffer greater strains than married couples and their children. Less is known about the specific characteristics of the women who have births outside of marriage. This research brief paints a fuller picture of nonmarital childbearing.…

This study probes in what ways the teacher and students create unequally successful student-centered mathematics classrooms and what kinds of learning opportunities arise for the students in these classrooms. A general guideline to the understanding of mathematics classroom culture is an emergent theoretical framework that fits well with the…

A study examined shared reading discourses as part of an ongoing research project seeking to understand the sociolinguistic complexity of literacy practices at home and school for a number of specific families. Subjects included three socially and culturally diverse families who shared story reading events, constructed meanings about literacy, and…

Scientists and engineers play a vital role in the United States educational system, in industrial competition, and in the generation of new knowledge. A challenge for this country is to attract the best talent from all sources to science and engineering in order to stimulate creativity, innovation, and change; contribute to the advancement of…

Summarizes and assesses some recent observations on youth culture as a factor in social change and points to the need for a systematic analysis of the inter-relations of social change and new generations. (Author/SF)

German-American intellectual relations from the nineteenth century to the present are discussed in this literature review of books dealing with German refugees to the United States, the German academic system, and the German intelligentsia. (JH)

Paper presented at the ADE/ADFL Joint Summer Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, June 25-29, 1973. (DD)

Eight projects were filmed as part of a program of social change in a rural disintegrated neighborhood. The films were shown to local residents and to the wider community. (NQ)

Author examines the social patterns of the future and makes suggestions for educational and social development. He further states that if aesthetic educators are to have a role in the direction of future art studies, imaginative and systematic thinking must begin. (Author/RK)

A summer field school in the lower Illinois River Valley is designed to provide students with clinical training in archaeological excavation and analytical methods. The multi-disciplinary training is unique in the United States. (Author/JB)

The nature of silence is discussed as an imposition of mind, as an interdependent signification ground for speech signs, as a relationship to mental time (as opposed to artificial time), and as it relates to sensation, perception and metaphorical movement. (Author)

Faced with the task of planning social activities (aesthetic education) for a large community, including distinctive sub-cultures, planners must have a philosophical foundation upon which to base all decisions involving value judgments. The viewpoint expressed is a working philosophy, a guideline for such action. (BL)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Lists and discusses internationally applicable factors which are likely to hinder or obstruct learning from the time the disadvantaged child enters the classroom. (DM)