The contributions of marketing education programs to business and society were analyzed and considered from the perspective of human capital theory and social attainment theory. It was concluded that such programs are a nexus for vocational education and the labor market. (JOW)

Reports an evaluation of six sociometric measures (social preference, social impact, peer ratings, alternative status, and positive and negative nominations) on a sample of 85 four-year-olds from three preschool and day care centers. Implications for social skills intervention are discussed. (DR)

Attempted to determine whether sixth-grade students (N=95) could learn resistance to persuasion skills (RPS) and to identify those skills. Findings suggest that resistance to persuasion skills can be taught and successfully learned in a school health education environment and that a child's self-concept and social status is not associated with…

A study of 38 female and 72 male Canadian high school students was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that aspects of status-seeking in Canadian adolescents are unique. Results are discussed and the role of the school counselor or teacher is examined. (CT)

Investigates the hypothesis that letters to lower-status recipients would consist of a greater number of more familiar modes than letters to higher-status recipients and that letters to recipients of high solidarity with the writer would consist of a greater number of more familiar modes than letters to recipients of low solidarity with the…

This review raises the possibility that a policy of school-based curriculum decision making might best serve the interests of the different ethnic communities through enabling them to influence policy. However, the concern that this may lead to diverse and inequitable policies is also raised. (CT)

A study of U.S. high school students surveyed by Project Talent in 1960 and followed up 11 years later showed that familiarity with and interest in high culture has a significant positive effect on educational attainment, college attendance, college completion, graduate attendance, and marital selection for men and women. (Author/RM)

Discusses a survey of community college faculty conducted in a multi-campus district to determine to what extent job rewards, job values, and achieved and ascribed social statuses contribute to faculty job satisfaction. Finds job rewards, chronological age, good supervision, and the work itself to be positive predictors of satisfaction. (AYC)

The results of the present study suggest that family learning environments as perceived by 16-year-olds have negligible to moderate associations with social context and academic achievement measures that were assessed when the adolescents were five years younger, indicating the possible complexity of relationships between adolescents' perceptions…

Teachers' customary sources of social authority--social status, the backing of the law and parents, and the existence of a generalized set of expectations and norms within a school--have all declined. The burden of establishing authority now rests more on the individual teacher, which often leads to burnout. (CMG)

The purpose of this study was to determine (1) whether sex operated as a diffuse status characteristic in mixed-sex groups of fourth- and fifth-grade children (n=168), and (2) whether an intervention based on expectation states theory would be successful in changing the status relationships within such groups. (PN)

The future economic value of college-going is examined in a reply to the pessimistic view offered by Freeman and Hollomon in a 1975 article. It is shown that the issue will remain urgent for years to come, but that the social return on the college investment has not declined. (LBH)

Ethnic information seeking is discussed in terms of three strategies (seeking in-group information, seeking out-group information, and seeking group-enhancement information) and the differential use of these strategies by minority and majority students. (Author)

This study involved focus group interviews with 12 experienced Egyptian teachers working in academic and vocational secondary schools, comparing their perspectives on the implications of a 1999 educational reform which converted many vocational/commercial schools to academic schools and sought to reduce the need for extra-school, private tutoring.…

Although the New Zealand government is spending millions of dollars to teach the Maori language in preschool language nests and immersion primary schools, its language policies are unlikely to succeed because they do not address the perceived low social status of the language. A marketing paradigm outlines how language can be viewed as a product…