The background and status of efforts toward development of national educational quality standards for Canada are discussed. Differences and similarities between Canada and the United States are discussed in terms of historical background; educational system; and relationships among education, other social institutions, and culture. Issues at both…

Because youth gangs tend to cluster in disadvantaged neighborhoods, adolescents living in such neighborhoods are more likely to encounter opportunities to join youth gangs. However, in the face of these opportunities, not all adolescents respond in the same manner. Those with preexisting psychopathic tendencies might be especially likely to join.…

Canadian undergraduate students were administered the British general ability test, AH2, along with a multiple-choice vocabulary test and the Standard Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal ability test. Scores were compared with British norms and intercorrelated with those of the other two tests. Correlations with the other ability tests were low.…

This summary of the federal government's review of the official languages policy is based almost entirely on textual excerpts from the original document. The purpose of the paper is to review some of the roots of the Canadian experience responsible for the origins of the official languages policy, and to review the Canadian experience with this…

Business Administration students in five colleges were surveyed to learn their attitudes in six areas: theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political, and religious. Differences were found between business students and nonbusiness, between male and female business students, and to a lesser extent between class levels and schools. (MSE)