Does schooling equalize achievement disparities among students with and without a migrant background? This question remains largely unanswered in sociology. We hypothesized that children of migrants would benefit more from schooling, thereby making schools engines of educational integration. Our study tests this hypothesis in the context of German…

Discusses the education of minorities before 1917; communist reforms since then; the effect on minorities of the separation of church and schools; and educational accomplishments for minorities up to 1966. Tables, charts, statistics. (RB)

Factors of creation of the Academy and the history of its development. (ND)

This guide provides an overview of the rise to power of Joseph Stalin and the legacy of Communist rule in the Soviet Union. The guide provides a listing of key events, a background essay, a list of components related to articles from "The New York Times" of the era, suggested activities, discussion questions, a list of key players…

Relationship of the Academy to growth of science in USSR and the activity of developing a socialist society. (ND)

The authors discuss the effects a USSR visit had on their pre-set educational stereotypes. (ND)

Relationship of USSR's Academy of Science to landmarks of history, Socialist construction, and the present. (ND)

Relationship between the establishment and development of USSR's Academy of Sciences to the historic changes occurring for the past 250 years. (ND)

The purpose of the course is to examine certain areas of the world with an emphasis on the geographic aspects and their relationships to the development of man's political, social, and economic institutions. This guide is designed to be useful to teachers as they outline courses and daily lesson plans. No attempt has been made to plan in detail…

This issue presents a recent Soviet monograph on urban youth. It covers the beginning of independence in young people's lives, the functioning of youth in the national economy during the first years after graduation from general education school, and the young machine builders of Leningrad. (Author/ND)

This document presents two resource units for studying the cultural diversity and unity of several countries. The unit was developed as part of a series by the Public Education Religion Studies Center. The resource units serve the religious components of broader cultural studies of the USSR and Japan. Three statements of rationale underlie the…

This historical review describes the expansion of elementary and secondary education in the Soviet Union during the decade of the 1930's under the Stalinist regime. This study explores how teachers participated in shaping the relationship between education and Stalinist political culture by examining how teachers made sense of their position in…

The music of the peoples who inhabit either Central Asia or the Volga-Ural region of Asia is explored in this document, which provides information that can be incorporated into secondary or higher education courses. The Central Asian music cultures of the Kirghiz, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Karakalpaks, Uighurs, Tajiks, and Uzbeks are described and…