The author recommends three fundamental changes in national environmental education strategy. Environmentalists should capitalize on other societal stresses like politics rather than capitulate to competition. Monies should be given to federal agencies and voluntary associations that have successfully promoted conservation. Finally environmental…

Presents data from the 1979 American Home Economics Association survey on 11,229 home economists employed full time (68 percent of all respondents). Illustrates how education, sex, minority status, academic major, and type of employer affect home economists' incomes. (SK)

The role of anthropology in the "new social studies" movement, survey results of its part in public school curriculum, and arguments for and against teaching it in public schools are offered to sum up the status of anthropology. (Author/KM)

Author gives an opposing point of view to Jencks' book, Inequality, on the effect equalizing educational opportunity will have on equalizing income in our society. (GB)

Tabular demographic data describes the professional and economic status of industrial arts teacher educators. (GR)

Examines patterns of social class identification among farmers in New York. Reveals farmers most frequently identify with working class and indicates a combination of agricultural and nonagricultural class status factors are related to subjective social class placement. Identifies education, total family income, net worth, and number of hired…

With data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study investigates the direct and indirect effects of education on an individual's self-reported work hours lost due to illness. (Author/CT)

Examines the low status of adult education within the wider educational community and relates it to the content adult education, the structure of adult education, and the educational process itself. (Author/RK)

Current Population Survey data indicate that nonmetropolitan personal income increased in real terms during 1990-96, whereas metropolitan income did not. Among long-term influences, steadily rising educational attainment has fostered convergence between nonmetro and metro income. Table and figure detail nonmetro and metro incomes, 1990-96, for…

Data from a 1986 general social survey of Hungary were used to examine the effects of cultural capital on income inequalities under state socialism in Hungary. While both educational and lifestyle aspects of cultural capital had independent effects, certification obtained through formal education was the strongest cultural capital predictor of…

Analysis of data for male workers from the 1940 Census found that racial differences in human capital and other characteristics explain all of the unemployment gap between blacks and whites in the South, but less than half in the North. Migration of black workers to the North may have increased the probability of their unemployment. (SK)

Presents descriptive data for youth referred for evaluation as either status offender or delinquent; presents academic achievement and intellectual functioning data of this group; describes distribution of nonhandicapped and mildly handicapped students and educational services provided prior to evaluation. (Author)

Discussion of the value of knowledge clarifies issues related to the distinction between the process of information and the knowledge transmitted. Topics addressed include practical and intellectual knowledge, the value of education, the private and social value of scientific journals, and benefit-and-cost analysis. (eight references) (MES)

Contradictory to expectations of labor market analysts, young adults born during the "baby bust" (1965-1976) have thus far been less successful, in terms of earnings and other labor market measures, then their "baby boom" counterparts. (Author)