Authors attacks compensatory education as an ineffectual way of dealing with social inequalities, while underlying social problems go unsolved. (SP)

This study compared the ability of Southern urban higher status white and lower status white and black four-year-olds to imitate, comprehend, and produce selected standard English grammatical structures. The higher status white group performed better than either of the lower ones. Possible effects of dialect differences on the results is…

Teachers are always rating pupils; pupils are less often asked to rate teachers. An ominous message about the school's selective role emerges from this study conducted in Britain. (DM)

Article describes author's experiences in promoting women's liberation groups in three women's colleges. (IR)

Applied an internal criteria for the detection of bias to standardization data for the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts. Despite sizable social class differences in mean scores, differences in rank orders of item difficulties were negligible. There was little evidence of test bias. (Author)

Reviews research on the family's role in eventual teenage sexual behavior. Finds fathers to be almost completely absent as sources of sex education for their children. (RH)

This study examined differences between 232 middle- and lower-class pre- and postmenarcheal adolescents and differences across four developmental levels for the postmenarcheal group. Postmenarcheal adolescents had more problems, but were higher in self-concept, supporting the view that menarche onset is a positive event for most females.…

Discussion of the digital divide focuses on a social divide rather than a lack of access to information technology for specific groups. Topics include historic trends in technology diffusion; policy implications; motivational barrier to technology use; knowledge and skill barrier; content barrier; and social network barrier. (LRW)

Illustrates how societies can be judged by the athletic games they play through presentation of an exchange of letters appearing in the 1872 issues of the Upper Canada College newspaper. Shows how cricket, representing imperial society and muscular Christianity, was threatened by the Yankees and "American baseball." (LS)