Presents a revision of Scanzoni's model of female status attainment. Analysis of Scanzoni's data provided strong support for the revision. Findings suggest that women's sex role attitudes are pivotal influences on income and continuity in the labor market. (Author/RC)

While the social scientific study of education has advanced impressively in recent years, little progress has been made in a number of areas. Energies should be directed to the study of the education of the rich and privileged as well as the education of minorities and the poor. (Author/EB)

Compares the European style of teaching with the U.S. approach to science education in terms of the level of science instruction, educational systems, school curriculums, and scientific and economic status. (KHR)

A study of Hispanic socioeconomic achievement in 100 mid-sized U.S. metropolitan areas found that Hispanics in areas with small Hispanic populations fared best in terms of educational attainment, employment, and income. Nevertheless, although better educated than non-Hispanics, Hispanics in areas of low Hispanic density still had lower per-capita…

Investigated age, race, and educational patterns of marriage choice in North Carolina and Virginia during 1969-71 and 1979-81. Results support exchange theories of marriage behavior; females emphasized male economic characteristics; males emphasized female noneconomic characteristics. Major changes over 10 years were decline in level of marriage…

Examination of contradictory data show that during the 1980s college graduates' earnings increased relative to those with less education. More college graduates were employed in jobs not requiring degrees; employers had sufficient numbers to fill jobs requiring degrees. Economic restructuring rather than a shortage of college graduates appears to…

Lessons designed to prepare students for standardized tests are replacing lessons designed to help children think. Instead of national standardized test scores, schools should use local criterion-referenced tests; take a baseline measurement; compare test scores with districts having similar demographics; compare students, not grade levels; and…

Examines the role of the educational and socioeconomic levels of the speakers in advancing linguistic change. The study reviews three grammatical phenomena found at distinct stages of change. Individuals at the lower socioeconomic and educational strata of society embrace innovations in language more readily than their affluent and educated…

A path model of lifelong education was developed using longitudinal data from a cohort of 671 Swedish men. Instead of a reduced gap between initially poorly and well-educated people, a cycle of accumulation exists, in which the quality of earlier educational experience predicts the quality and quantity of subsequent participation in adult…

Examines the effects of stratification processes, based on family social origins, gender, and residential location, on educational attainments in urban China from 1949 to 1994. Emphasizes the importance of political processes and the state redistributive economy, arguing that shifting state policies led to varying mechanisms of stratification over…

Barriers to adult participation in education create inequities in benefits derived from learning, exacerbating social tensions and exclusion. Government policies emphasizing market forces and human capital strategies neglect the social role of learning. (Contains 32 references.) (SK)

Summarizes findings of various reports about the condition of American education in comparison to that of other countries. When data are analyzed with no prior position as to what they say, the nation's schools seem to perform at a higher level than that which has been presented. (SLD)

Gender is strongly related to career outcomes among Chicago lawyers. Men and women begin their careers in difference practice contexts, and the differences grow over time. Individual preferences do not fully account for the gender gap. Law school prestige and class rank influence career paths but do not explain the gender gap. (Contains 85…

British data were used to compare an individual model of returns to education and a family model in which parents allocate resources for education differently to their children to compensate for different employment potential. Results show education is endogenous for young adults' earnings and the family model is supported. (SK)

There is debate about whether the rate of return to education in developing countries declines with the level of schooling. This paper reports evidence from urban Papua New Guinea which shows that the average private rate of return to an additional year of education rises with the level of education considered. This pattern is robust to the…