Examines rural social trends and implications of current information age for rural development. Predicts rising number of small-scale service organizations, benefiting rural areas. Examines other factors tempering optimism that rural areas can benefit from information age. Recommends investment in rural human capital, information structures, and…

Describes efforts by U.S. employers to support employee child care. Topics include on-site centers, the consortium center, information and referral, family day care, seminars, nontraditional work schedules, the purchasing of slots in programs, the voucher system, sick child care, subsidies for child care, and flexible benefits. (RJC)

This survey focused on 185 Israeli Bedouin elementary school teachers, assessing their job satisfaction, perception of organizational climate, and interaction. The effect of climate on satisfaction was examined in two separate regression models, based respectively on the task and human relations aspects of satisfaction. Climate factors were…

To help Native American students succeed in school, educators must pay attention to the sociocultural context in which learning takes place. By following several simple precepts, teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students can enhance language learning. (Author/TE)

Applies a theoretical framework that encompasses cultural and social regulation of mother-child speech to observations of discourse between three mothers and their two-year-olds. Maternal speech was semantically contingent in the sense that both partners in the conversation were jointly focused on a shared topic of concern. (Author/CB)

Medical students (N=341) completed questionnaire on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, and involvement in sensation-seeking sports and activities. Results indicated minimal tobacco use, moderately low drug use, and extensive alcohol use. Increased alcohol use was strongly correlated with heavy drinking patterns in parents and male students while…

Defines and characterizes four historical periods of educational leadership, each based on a central metaphor of leadership and associated core values of schooling: the evangelical period, the progressive period, the period of discontent, and the emerging period of choice. In the current "choice" period, the administrator assumes the role of…

This paper discusses concepts of language socialization and their importance to assessment and intervention with culturally diverse children with hearing impairments. It notes that culturally appropriate models of intervention are based on the understanding that ways of talking with children are culturally based and reflect underlying beliefs…

Defines a value system as a universal, prolonged, consistent structure of priorities that defines an individual's life plan. Reports on a study of individual values among 3,154 Russian adults in 3 major cities. Identifies four generalizations based on the data about social values and social change in Russia. (CFR)

From the perspective of legitimate peripheral participation, a theory that equates learning with increasingly greater involvement in a sociocultural community, this paper examines the role that graduate student/advisor relationships play in nonnative speaker dissertation writers' participation in their research communities. Focus is on three…

Contends that governments around the world are working to eliminate racism and racial discrimination. Maintains that Canadian education has problems resulting from racial differences and immigration. Concludes that Canadians must move forward in racial and cultural harmony. (CFR)

Diagnostic assessment combining cognitive science and psychometrics, cognitively diagnostic assessment (CDA), is characterized in terms of the intended use of the assessment and methods of developing and evaluating assessments. Societal trends motivating the development of CDA and efforts to develop a five-step methodology for CDA are outlined.…

Reports the results of the National Adoption Study of Canada (NAS), which is based on demographic adoption statistics and a survey of adoption agencies and practitioners. The NAS found that between 1981 and 1990 the number of adoptions decreased by 47% and that private adoptions are accounting for an ever-increasing proportion of infant…

The author, president of the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation, advocates development of a Career Development Culture to increase people's awareness of the role of career in their life satisfaction and to foster a sense of empowerment and planfulness when approaching career-related concerns. Schools and school counselors have a crucial…

In a study involving 43 Norwegian high-ability 16-year olds, the superior achievement of males in both mathematics and general factual knowledge is interpreted as supporting a sociocultural explanation of sex differences in achievement. Parent education was also correlated with achievement. (SLD)