This paper investigates the extension of educational rights to girls, working class children, and the children of migrant workers in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The first section discusses the theoretical basis of affirmative action in West Germany, legal provisions for attaining equality in education, and basic features of the West…

Examines how the status of Dominican women in the United States improves as a consequence of waged employment. Considers the ideological forces which root women in the household and discourage collective struggles in the workplace and suggests that the middle-class aspirations of Dominican families are in contradiction to their children's future…

Describes and assesses different explanations for the low reading achievement level amongst Afro-American children and critiques traditional attempts to remedy this dilemma. Recommends a holistic approach that fuses cultural difference and social structural approaches to reading and acknowledges that motivational processes are central. (RDN)

Objectives and content of the social studies curriculum from 1900 to 1916 at the Hampton Institute, a trade school for Blacks in Hampton, Virginia, are described, and the extent to which these goals and content were reflected in recommendations published in 1916 by the Committee on Social Studies are examined. (RM)

Implications of current social and economic conditions in Britain for educational planning are considered and some recommendations made addressing problems of disadvantaged youth, women, the industrial work force, and the retired and unemployed. (MJL)

Based on experience in developing an information referral and data management system for tenants' rights organizations, suggests ways in which academic communities can redress inequities in the availability of politically useful information by making it more accessible to organizations serving working and lower class populations. (Author/GC)

Capitalist, patriarchal, and sexist social structures and values affect how working class adolescents plan to allocate responsibility for domestic labor. Interviews with 83 Canadian male and female high school students revealed that they anticipate choosing patterns of domestic labor which perpetuate women's subordinate roles at home and work. (AM)

This article examines the efforts and impact of New South reformers to use the examples of industrial training developed at Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes, which were designed to uplift African-Americans, as models of appropriate education for poor Whites. (IAH)

Preschool home visiting projects have been used in England since the 1970s to work with disadvantaged mothers and children; the strategies of education for prevention and parent participation are common themes. This article studies participating mothers' expectations and experiences, and finds their lack of confidence or sense of influence…

Problems in providing educational services to minority and working-class special education students are discussed in the context of their experiences in the education system as a whole. The paper focuses specifically on prejudice, culturally inappropriate instruction, and what educators can do to improve the situation. (JDD)

Examines the stresses and strengths that define daily negotiated life experiences for women who are poor or working-class and African-American in urban America. Interviews with individuals in these communities show that these women see themselves as constantly negotiating borders of home/family/life and, at the same time, constantly carry…

Explores the many roles that the theater played within the settlement houses in Toronto (Canada) from 1910 to 1930. Demonstrates that settlement workers in Toronto attempted to use the power of the theater to influence, inspire, and inform both their clientele and the broader community. (CMK)

Discusses how and why a pedagogy of overt comparison between students' home language (vernacular dialects of English) and school language (standard English) helps students learn the more global features of academic writing and the more sentenced-level features of Standard English. Outlines a pedagogy of overt comparison. Notes it motivates…

Examined the attitudes of Hong Kong secondary school students toward English, Cantonese, and Putonghua. Compared the language attitudes of two main groups of Hong Kong students, middle class elite and working class low achievers. Findings showed that the former group was more inclined to use English while the latter group was more inclined to use…

Uses ethnographic methods to examine cultural norms regarding inclusion and cooperation at a multiethnic middle school serving predominantly working-class Caucasians and Chicanos. The principal's strong leadership and the cultural congruity of socioeconomic norms help explain the high degree of cooperation and inclusion in the school. (SLD)