This paper describes the design and findings of field research conducted in a single "desegregated," polyethnic urban high school. (Author/MLF)

Conceptually analyzes the male work role, the female work role, the female family role, and the male family role as components of the work-family role system. Examines the links among these roles and analyzes sex-segregated labor markets for both paid work and family tasks. (JM)

Six historical works which address important educational problems of Mexican Americans are cited in this brief review article. (JP)

Presents empirical evidence for economic inequity for Pilipino Americans, focusing on income and occupation. Explores explanations from two competing theories, one emphasizing individual effort alone (the human capital model), the other focusing more on the social structure (labor market segmentation). (LHW)

Discusses leadership and political structure among the five Iroquois Nations--Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca--in the northeastern United States during the eighteenth century. Uses myth, ritual, historical sources, American ethnology, and British social anthropology to describe and analyze political entities and to classify leaders.…

Powerful elites assume they embody rationality and see themselves as husbanders of a set of common values. Any effort to develop an educationally sound policy on the teaching of value issues must be tied to alterations in the existing distribution of power in our society. Several approaches are evaluated. (MT)

Details findings of an OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) study concerning the social and labor market implications of aging populations. The article includes a demographic profile, impact on social expenditures, and the response of policymakers. (CT)

This article describes the dominant ideology characteristic of modern organization which reproduces patterns of domination and subordination, and then discusses the effects of the dominant ideology relative to the structure and function of schooling. (MT)

Outlines the history, present status, and future prospects of bilingual education in Slovenia, Yugoslovia. The way in which Italians, Hungarians, and Slovenes experience the right to equal education in a socialist society is described. (Author/DB)

Both the school and the family need to work together at rearing committed and wholesome adults. (Author)

Within the current historical crisis of transnational capitalism, disabled people are finding themselves increasingly at risk. It is essential to (re)theorize the category of disability, particularly in critical response to the emancipatory possibilities offered through "border pedagogies." The paper locates the conceptual category of disability…

Although record numbers of women educators are entering masters and doctoral programs in educational administration, the percentage of women who actually obtain positions in educational administration is under 30 percent. This paper reviews the experiences of women who have obtained positions of educational leadership as reported in a number of…

An examination of the U.S. and Israel points up ways in which the emphasis on egalitarianism in the founding political doctrines of each has determined much in its institutional practices and patterns of behavior, and the repeated efforts of each to "equalize" hierarchies imposed seemingly by social necessity. (Author/JM)

Reviews and analyzes a book containing a dialogue between James Brown and Margaret Mead, A Rap on Race.'' (JM)

A detailed and critical review of an anthology edited by Nathan Wright entitled What Black Educators Are Saying.'' (JM)