Reports on a study of student characteristics and the school organization to confirm the findings of previous studies on the importance of individual characteristics to track placement. Concludes that systematic differences among schools suggest that track placement is more complex than previous research has shown. (CFR)

Provides the transcript of an interview with Dr. Harold L. Hodgkinson, who currently conducts research on demographics and education. Discusses the role of developmental education in higher education (HE), demographics affecting the workforce and HE in the 21st century, flight from cities and class issues in HE, and student retention. (MAB)

Reports on a study of trends in the segregation in fields of study by sex for recipients of college degrees in the 1980s. Examines three dimensions of segregation: (1) unevenness; (2) concentration or crowding; and (3) intergroup academic contact. Finds a slowdown in the trend toward gender integration after 1985. (CFR)

Examines the relationship between decolonization and democratization through an analysis of the case of Hong Kong. Discusses Hong Kong's tradition lack of politization and the movement for democratization as decolonization approaches. Addresses the role of education in that process. (Contains 38 references.) (MAB)

Describes the educational challenges facing Poland as it makes the transition from state socialism to a free market economy. Reviews probable changes to the country's agricultural workers, working class, intelligentsia, and the newly self-employed. Discusses the decline of the value of education beginning in the 1980s and the implications for…

Reviews salient historical events and selected factors that reveal views on bilingualism in the United States from precolonial times to the present. Identifies patterns of attitudes toward bilingualism, and summarizes factors associated with various patterns in an effort to understand current controversy over bilingualism. Contains 42 references.…

This preliminary study developed and verified focus group questions to be used to investigate the impact of school restructuring on students with disabilities. Validated the appropriateness of case-study methodology as a model for studying the impact of restructuring and identified major issues and study questions accompanying restructuring. (RJM)

Extends exploration of ideologies of crime in the news by examining reports about the causes of crime and commands of what to do about crime in "Time" magazine. Argues that criminal justice policy and ideology have played an important role in developments within the postwar political economy in the United States. (LKS)

Reports results of survey responses to short scenarios involving partner disputes. If there was no intention of harm and no current injury, dismissal was preferred. Women and men preferred counseling to jail or probation; women preferred jail and counseling more than men. Court-ordered mediation was the most preferred disposition. (LKS)

Contrasts Third World economic and business practices that support family life with their U.S. opposites. Explores changing workplace policies and changing family life of U.S. citizens with emphasis on African-American families. Considers the family basis for certain ethnic successes and links such successes with opportunity theory. (SV)

Provides lists of historical works dealing with the Columbian quincentenary. Includes publications about Christopher Columbus, the Mediterranean in the late fifteenth century, the spirit of exploration of the period, pre-Columbian America and its societies, and the impact of European contact with America. Urges a broad teaching approach to…

Describes storyknifing, a traditional way of storytelling illustrated through pictures traced in mud, by young girls in a Yup'ik Eskimo village on the Kuskokwim River (Alaska). Storyknifing provides a forum in which young girls learn cultural and cognitive knowledge. Storyknifing maintains a link with traditional society in this village. (SLD)

Identifies challenges confronting community colleges entering the twenty-first century, concluding that dramatic changes in demography, social structures, and technology promise to shape a vastly different educational environment. Urges community colleges to address community problems and issues and empower citizens through the development of…

Gender, race, and class issues in education raise questions about social policy and curricular design. Pluralism helps people understand difference and sameness, offering feminism ways to connect desired curricular changes with changes occurring because of their forces. Women's studies breaks down barriers constraining academic subjects, creating…

Analysis of Al-Anon and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) organizational literature shows women's articulation of and responses to the problems of codependence from the 1950s to the 1980s. Progressive appropriation of feminist ideals, a critique of the family, and a disease-based model of family dysfunction characterize understanding of…