In the context of contemporary questions about higher education and the working class, describes the background and the particulars of a debate at Ruskin College, Oxford University (1908) among worker-students, the university chancellor, and representatives of the Workers Educational Association. Offers a comparative analysis of the three…

Deplores the great lack of understanding of minority and low income students by teachers and counselors; explains why there is lack of understanding, and suggests a possible solution. (DM)

Uses data on human services in China to take a broader look at human services and conceptualize them differently. (DM)

It is suggested that altruism is a multidimensional concept and that in the young child its expression may in part reflect differing levels of cognitive development. (Authors)

Attempts to disentangle and isolate the major factors which affect the mobility of ethnic and racial minorities, in order to modify some of the concepts involved. (DM)

Report summarizes the activities of a team of researchers in seven pre-school centers on Long Island, between October 1967 and April 1968. Aim of the project was to find a normative base for the construction of a new curriculum for pre-school children, in particular for those labeled disadvantaged.'' (Authors/CB)

Examines the hypothesis that lower-class black children are more external" in their personal orientation than middle-class white children. (Authors/MB)

Analyzes the new understanding of equality of opportunity which requires that children of the lower classes not only have a realistic chance of success, but that they do in fact achieve such success in equal proportions with the children of the middle and upper classes. (DM)

Generally low achievement among blacks was attributed to general patterns of community oppression. Low achievement motives were linked to the caste-like occupational structure, whereas low achievement value orientations were associated with perceptions of opportunities for mobility among blacks. (Author)

Reports research designed to resolve a methodological inconsistency in previous studies, by examining the interrelations among several indexes of residential segregation and measures of educational, occupational, and income differentiation in American urban areas as of 1960. (JM)

Results of the study indicate that neither social class of origin, nor secondary school attended can be defended as criteria for dividing the young adolescent male population into its subcultures. (Author/SP)

Transracial adoptions have been encouraged widely as a way to meet the needs of many black children. This practice and the agency philosophy behind it are challenged in the light of today's social realities. (Editor)

Middle-class teachers were significantly more permissive and less puritanical in outlook, took more pleasure in the emotional aspects of teacher-pupil relationships, and showed less authoritarian attitudes toward children than did lower-class teachers. (Author/MB)

No intellectual differences were found by socioeconomic status among Negro children up to age 3 years 8 months, when sampling procedures and adaptation to the testing situation were controlled. (MH)