Most of the research literature suggests that ability grouping denies quality of educational opportunity. Educational selection systems, such as ability grouping, are less concerned with education than they are with socializing students' attitudes, personalities, and behaviors into work roles. (RM)

Presenting subject matter from all areas of home economics in an interrelated manner will help students view the family holistically, as a part of the educational, economic, legal, political, and medical systems. Home economics can help students be aware of trends affecting the family and develop decision-making skills. (SK)

Considers the need for a theoretical and practical model for family-oriented school psychology. Discusses family systems theory and recommends ecological developmental theory as a more comprehensive alternative. Uses the ecological framework to describe family orientation with respect to the school psychologist's roles. (JAC)

Analyzed data on 193 cases of suicide in Detroit to assess changes and continuities in the etiology of suicide. Results showed the highest rate of suicide has shifted from the elderly to the relatively young age cohorts. Males, persons in manual occupations, Whites, and immigrants continued to have relatively high rates of suicide. (JAC)

Home-school partnerships improve academic achievement but can also widen the gap in performance related to social class. Educators can learn to adapt outreach policies to the values of working class families. (MD)

Eight educational activities based on social learning and social support theory were used as part of a comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction program for families with children in the elementary grades. Activities focused on changing behavior with regard to diet and exercise. (Author/PP)

Females who differed on a measure of parental identification discussed public and private areas of experience during dyadic interviews. Supporting the assumption that fathers are crucial to the expressive-role development of daughters, subjects who identified primarily with father were more personally disclosing overall and talked longer and…

This paper ascertains the degree to which occupational sex-stereotyping is differentially found at different social class levels. Education is found to be strongly correlated with sex-stereotyping of 15 different occupations. Income level, on the other hand, is significantly related to such stereotyping in only two of the 15 cases. (Author)

An experiment on the role of the language of instruction in mediating responses to social pressure was conducted with a sample of 41 Russian-born adolescents who had recently immigrated to Israel. (Editor)

This essay explored the authority relation between parents and teachers, their respective spheres of influence, the quality of their relationships, and the potential for building constructive alliances between them. (Author/RK)

Article considered a representative sample of claims levied by revisionists of school policy and attempted to respond to the question of what schools could have done to have been more effective. (Author/RK)

Significant others in a high school male youth's social environment who encourage participation in vocational education were identified and the strength of their encouragement assessed. The relationship between level of encouragement and race, socioeconomic status, and educational achievement was investigated. (Editor/HD)

Many women have undergone assertive training to prepare themselves for the demands of a professional career or independent life style. In the case of professional women, this article suggests that assertive training should focus more on altering certain socialization processes than on increasing overt assertiveness skills. (Author)

A life cycle explanation of residential mobility is presented. It posits that age-related events in a normative context influence moving probabilities for homogeneous populations who have relatively uniform socialization. (Author)

Maintains that students must study ethnicity to attain a total understanding of American society. The author analyzes and evaluates multiethnic components of a social studies program and recommends comprehensive testing to determine the success of each component. Examples of testing techniques are presented. (Author/DB)