Differences in reading achievement of bilingual and monolingual groups of fifth, sixth, and seventh graders were investigated in several Texas schools where the Czech-American culture was significant. Sixty-three bilingual students were compared with monolingual students who had Czech surnames or Czech-American backgrounds, on the basis of…

Presented here are the findings of a telephone survey of randomly selected middle class families with preschool children. The survey, conducted as part of the Project in Television and Early Childhood Education at the University of Southern California, was initiated to provide a description of preschool children's viewing behavior and…

Employing 6 eligibility criteria (a family unit, income less than 1.5 times the official poverty level, rural residence, and head of family physically able to work and between 18 and 49 years having completed sixth grade), an assessment was made of the size and characteristics of the potential client population for family-based, residential career…

The aim of this investigation is to report on the perceptions and attitudes of a special group of residents toward voluntary urban relocation. Using respondents from two Model Cities neighborhoods in Houston, Texas, the survey focuses on specific socioeconomic variables such as income, education, occupation, employment status, family size, and…

In an effort to evaluate the impact of the 1972-73 Navajo Generating Station at Page, Arizona and the strip mine at Black Mesa on the Navajo Reservation, areas adjacent to each of these operations were surveyed (N=134 and 60 respectively) and compared with two control populations (N=60 from the rural area of Red Lake and 58 from the wagework area…

"Adolescent Prejudice" by Glock, Wuthnow, Piliavin, and Spencer was the central focus for the conference at which this paper was presented. The first objective of this paper was to discuss the implications of that research paper for the social systems characteristics of schools. It was observed that to a considerable extent adolescents form ethnic…

A study of the effects of cuts in recruitment on the sex and class composition of students in British teacher education is reported. Trends in teacher training enrollments and trainees' socioeconomic status since 1962 are examined. (MSE)

Mentally retarded individuals are often stigmatized and segregated, though constitutional guarantees in many countries promise them equality. Use of the U.S. court system to secure these guarantees, resulting in deinstitutionalization, individualization of services, and increased employment opportunities, is analyzed and contrasted with the…

Responding to questionnaires, 983 Canadian high school and university students revealed the following reasons why their peers are unemployed: (1) work values; (2) business/government job creation; (3) educational system; (4) luck/contacts; (5) immigrants/women taking jobs; and (6) work experience/interview skills. These explanations are shaped by…

By perpetuating habits, values, and attitudes that successfully mediate the interaction between the individual and the social environment, the Afro-American home environment prepares children to live in a society that devalues individuals whose social and ethnic origins differ from the accepted norm. Afro-American families stress social rather…

The study examined the effects of a child's sex and socioeconomic status on referral, assessment, and decision-making by presenting hypothetical cases to 38 undergraduate speech-language pathology students for evaluation. Results suggested that some referral and assessment decisions may be biased solely by the child's sex and socioeconomic status.…

An analysis of five dimensions of perceived stress (reward and recognition, time constraints, departmental influence, professional identity, and student interaction) among university faculty and their relationship to personal and professional characteristics is reported. (MSE)

The effects on female ministry students of a theology program that has a humanistic ideology and a professional role inclusive of women were examined. Although the female students valued the ideology, they found it of little use in legitimating themselves to clients or in working out their family and career plans. (Author/RM)

Reviews research and data on the factors influencing the lives of Hispanic women in the United States. Considers differences between Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American women and differences between Anglo and Hispanic family norms. Also discusses labor force participation. (KH)

This author reviews published data and presents new data relevant to the Spearman hypothesis concerning racial differences on cognitive tests. He concludes that across-the-board difference between SES groups occurs primarily on the general factor, and that there are major determinants of race differences independent of the general factor.…