Describing various demographic characteristics of disadvantaged students, the programs they study and their employment outcomes is a significant area of research interest in the vocational education and training (VET) sector. This article offers a preliminary exploration of how groups are problematised and the consequent influence on VET research…

This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on 'bottom-end inequality' -- the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle -- and addresses the question 'how far behind are…

Probes the success of Vietnam in preparing for national literacy and universal primary education within a framework of increasingly fragile and threatened socialist principles. Concludes that Vietnam has substantial literacy for a developing country, but progress remains slow in relation to particular ethnic groups, rural areas, and women. (DSK)

Analyzes the application of the principle of unity in different historical phases of the East German educational system. Argues that East German successes in reducing the number of socially underprivileged were always accompanied by a sharpening of the trade-off between educational equality and excellence, for which no solution was found. (DSK)

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report prepared by a research worker in reply to an IBE questionnaire on the subject. The goal of Israeli education policy has been to raise the educational level of the more backward immigrants to Israel who form a large culturally deprived group, while maintaining an…

It is not easy to describe American efforts during the past dozen or so years aimed at improving the quality of education for all, with particular attention to those termed "the disadvantaged." The difficulties stem from the diversity of activities and programs, the ebb and flow of various efforts, the responses and resistances to legislative and…

Schools which have many children who, because of the environment in which they grow up, find it difficult to keep pace and therefore often get left behind, are now being given a boost. Extra attention and, if necessary, extra money will be given to the schools where these children are in the majority. An interdepartmental Educational Development…

This report is the latest in a series prepared for the International Conference on Public Education that has been held since 1934 in Geneva, Switzerland, under the auspices of the International Bureau of Education, which is now a part of UNESCO. In Part I the focus is on the special educational needs of and Federal programs of assistance to…

Illich will not succeed in disestablishing the school, but he is teaching us to deschool our values. Proponents of deschooling are not only offering a brilliant critique of contemporary schooling but are also stimulating us to make education freer. Without basic political change we cannot disestablish the school; nor do we think it desirable to do…

The selections in this fifth volume of the series represent some of the current thinking and research on the education of the disadvantaged - a term no longer appropriate but retained in order to maintain the historical continuity of the series of which this anthology is a part. The selctions are chosen to show how society in general and the…

This document contains a press release and consent decree dealing with establishing city wide basic elements in the education of children whose functional language is Spanish. The major elements of this agreement extend on a city-wide level the best practices that are currently being attempted and implemented for target children in the New York…

This document contains the components of the National Educational Opportunities Act of 1975. Among the purposes of this Act are the provision for a viable mechanism for States and their local educational systems to implement the national policy on equal educational opportunity, the improvement of results achieved by elementary and secondary…

This paper focuses on the relationship between minority languages/cultures and educational achievement in mixed industrial societies, highlighting, in particular, the role of language and discourse strategies in the reproduction of educational inequality. Three major factors underlying accounts of inequalities in social and educational…

Puerto Ricans as a group are more disadvantaged economically, politically, and socially than any other ethnic minority. This marginalization is partly due to the educational system's discriminatory practices which deprive the vast majority of Puerto Rican children of equal educational opportunities. The educational problems of Puerto Ricans stem…

This document contains two of the three supplements which accompany chapter 1 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630). The first supplement contained in this document includes the following materials: articles of incorporation and bylaws; statement of…