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Parker, Angie – International Journal of Educational Technology, 1999
This study of community college students investigated predictors of student dropout in distance education courses. Considered locus of control, gender, number of distance education courses completed, age, financial assistance, and number of hours employed, and used correlation and discriminant analysis to show locus of control and financial aid…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi – Race, Gender & Class, 2001
Presents a feminist case analysis based on field observation of hands-on Internet sessions for low-income, minority, urban middle school students. Examination of the social dynamic within which Internet use occurred indicated that adolescents' social locations in terms of gender, race, and class worked to constrain Internet use to support dominant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Uses in Education, Feminism, Gender Issues
Robertson, Heather-Jane – Education Canada, 2000
Demographic projections concerning the shortage of teachers in Canada, their pay scale, the feminization of teaching, the gender gap in salaries, and teacher autonomy have often been incorrect, or correct for the wrong reasons. Instead of relying on demographic predictions, teachers should contemplate who they really want to be professionally,…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)

Bjork, Lars G.; Keedy, John L. – Journal of In-service Education, 2001
Examines the nature and direction of social changes in the United States population, characteristics of children in schools, and the gender and racial makeup of school superintendents. Analyzing findings from the 2000 Study of the American School Superintendency to identify career paths and factors limiting and advancing the careers of women and…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Issues

Parsons, Eileen Carlton – Urban Review, 2001
Examined how elementary students in a diverse, urban fourth grade classroom exercised white male privilege, noting the teacher's approach to mediating privilege, equality, and equity. Observation and interview data indicated that white males exercised privilege through outcries, evaluative use of knowledge, and body movements. They perceived more…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Equal Education

Mintz, Steven – OAH Magazine of History, 2001
Provides an annotated bibliography on teaching family history, organized by eight approaches to the topic: (1) chronological; (2) multicultural families (comparative); (3) the life-cycle (4) gender; (5) impact of major historical events on families; (6) family and public policy; (7) family rituals; and (8) genealogical. (CMK)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Strategies, Family (Sociological Unit)

Hargis, Jace – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2001
Discussion of using the Internet to learn science focuses on an online study that presented a constructivist and an objectivist format containing the same information and examined the effect on learning of variables that included age, gender, racial identity, attitude, aptitude, self-regulated learning, and self-efficacy. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, Computer Assisted Instruction, Constructivism (Learning)
Gill, Zoe – Australian Educational Researcher, 2005
Over recent years there has been widespread concern for masculinity and the education of boys in Australia. In the policy arena, this has involved a federal parliamentary inquiry into the education of boys ("Boys: Getting it Right: Report on the inquiry into the education of boys", October 2002) and a federal government response to this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Masculinity, Federal Government

Beattie, Irenee R. – Sociology of Education, 2002
Examines whether economic conditions similarly influence the college enrollment of adolescents from different groups. Indicates effects of income returns varies systematically by race, class, gender, and cognitive skills. Argues that college enrollment of white males from lower socioeconomic origins with lower cognitive skills is most consistent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Attendance, Educational Status Comparison, Enrollment
Gulbrandsen, Mette – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
This article addresses themes of development among young teenagers. Children aged 12 and 13 were followed up on a regular basis. The girls' vivid accounts on negotiations and reorganisations in their joint, field of peers aroused interest in their developmental efforts. Consequently, the practices and discourses connected with the personal and…
Descriptors: Females, Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Cultural Context
Siraj-Blatchford, Iram – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2004
This paper draws upon the findings of a body of recent research in early childhood education to explore the possibilities that may be available to overcome structural inequalities associated with socio-economic class, gender and ethnicity in the early years. Research has shown that preschool education makes a real difference for all children and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Young Children, Educationally Disadvantaged, Socioeconomic Influences
Rhodes, Melinda – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2003
This study focuses on the narratives of two women leaders, one of whom continues to work as a community college president and another who made the transition from a community college presidency to the directorship of a continuing education division of a large, state research university. The women were first interviewed in 2000 when they discussed…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Females, Leadership Styles, Continuing Education
Pankake, Anita M.; Beaty, Danna M. – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
Information about the experiences successful leaders perceive as vital to their development can be helpful to one's understanding of resiliency. Such information can also offer insights into the ways successful leaders use positive and negative situations as learning opportunities and the strategies they implement in addressing adversity. The…
Descriptors: Females, Leadership Qualities, Gender Issues, Leadership
Scher, Anat; Sharabany, Ruth – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2005
In this study, the authors compared 90 pairs of mothers and fathers with respect to aspects of negative emotionality experienced in the early parenting role. Mothers and fathers of 90 healthy 3-month-old infants completed questionnaires pertaining to parenting stress and separation anxiety. Mothers reported significantly higher levels of negative…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Questionnaires, Parent Child Relationship
Jones, Cheryl, Bland; Gates, Michael – Economics of Education Review, 2004
Despite numerous studies examining nursing wages, very little attention has focused on nursing wage differentials. We build on previous research by modeling nursing wages and examining male-female wage differences within the context of the current nursing shortage. Our results show that male nurses do earn a wage premium, largely explained by…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Nursing, Females, Males