This commission report consists of the recommendations made for Australian schools regarding equality, open attitudes, and the school community. The School's Commission places an emphasis on more equal outcomes from schooling. Particular stress is laid on social group disparities and attempts to mitigate them, and on social changes and their…

The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the patterns of psycholinguistic abilities of lower and middle class Negro and white children. The subjects for the study were 160 second grade children in the 90 to 110 IQ range from Northeast Louisiana. They were subgrouped by race and social class (lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle,…

The purpose of this study was to determine how subjects (high school students) of varying conceptual structure (Harvey, Hunt, and Schroder, 1961) would respond to personal and impersonal feedback on a performance task. It was predicted that whereas abstract subjects would show no difference in motivation under the two feedback conditions, concrete…

The purpose of this document is to report on the ways in which formal education of Cree Indian youths influences the development of their psychological identities. The sample for the study was comprised of 109 adolescent Cree Indians from the Mistassini and Waswanipi bands located in north central Quebec. These youths attended elementary and high…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was created in 1969, and its goals were twofold: to make available the first comprehensive data on the educational attainments of young Americans in 10 learning areas and to measure any growth or decline that takes place in the educational attainments of young Americans. In 7 of the 10…

A project currently being conducted in Sweden on free written composition at the middle level of comprehensive school is described. The principal aims of the project are listed under three headings: linguistic quality and linguistic development, stimulus measures preparatory to writing, and social differences in writing ability. Included in the…

Reported is a study to determine if a science vocabulary was necessary for successful achievement in science content and if this vocabulary was independent of social residence, intelligence and reading achievement. Two fifth grade groups, one from a suburban school and the other a rural school, took the Science Vocabulary Reading Test, the…

A set of conceptual schemes that can provide a partially articulated framework to serve as a basis to relate educational policy to the ends of rural development is described in this paper. Education is viewed in a sociological perspective as a process and as a social institution. Rural development as a social process is examined by means of a…

A picture inventory symbolically portraying two alternative value systems in a preschool setting was administered to 172 mothers and 66 female teachers of preschool children. Differences were found between the behavioral expectations of teachers and mothers who were either non-Anglo, working class, or both, but not between teachers and Anglo…

Different constitutionally-embodied individualistic premises, a different judicial system, and different social beliefs argue for a specifically Canadian approach to the problem of children's rights. (MJB)

The variety in female experience is examined, leading to the conclusion that it is not something fundamentally different from that of males. It is argued that this means that all facets of social change have different meanings according to class, race, and sex. These meanings carry implications for curricular changes. (Author/GC)

Attempts to summarize the existing "state of the art" in the field of education and inequality in the less developed nations and to point to some promising lines of future research on social inequality. (Author/RK)

Studied the sex-role concepts, personality adjustment, and academic achievement of 223 10-year-old girls and boys with either full-time employed or nonemployed mothers from working-class or middle-class families. (Author/JMB)

A group of American teachers observe similarities and differences between the educational practices in the United States and in the countries of China, Korea, and Japan. (JD)

Maintains that the maldistribution of wealth and static mobility patterns which prevailed in the United States from 1800 to 1940 provide the social and economic basis for present-day inequality. Political reforms have had little effect on living standards, status, and opportunities of most Americans. For journal availability, see SO 505 871.…