Increasingly, mathematics is being positioned as a tool to support students' understandings of social (in)justice and their own unique social positioning in the world. To this end, this study analyzes the impact of curricular reform efforts in an elementary mathematics content course. The course focused on fractions and statistics, and the course…

In the 2013 Tomás Rivera lecture, Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of the University of Texas system, discusses how a major shift in the demographics of the United States is having a profound effect on K-12 and higher education.

Often, quantitative and mathematical models are used to study complex dynamic systems--where collections of individual components interact to produce an emergent pattern of behavior. To interpret such models involves 'unpacking' the collective behaviors and interactions that underlie a given pattern. We investigate what representational supports…

This paper was presented at the International Symposium on Lifelong Learning for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Developing a Research Agenda for the Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong, 12-13 January 2011. Tom Karmel suggests that there are four implications of an ageing population: the need to improve labour force participation and…

Equity is a major concern for all development actors. Although Sri Lanka has successfully addressed equity issues in education sector there are unresolved factors and variables those perpetuate inequity. There are emerging new equity issues those that Sri Lanka needs to address. The changing population dynamics and the huge middle class population…

This paper was presented to a meeting of the Wellington Exchange, an international group of higher education officials, in December 2008. One of the topics of the meeting was around the issue of possible skills shortages emerging as a result of demographic trends, with the ageing of the population of developed countries. The paper argues that this…

Postponed parenthood is a growing family pattern in Canada. To examine this trend, an exploratory study of 46 couples who were delayed parents was conducted in Toronto. The members of each couple had worked at least 5 years prior to the birth of their first child after the mother was age 30. Responses by both husbands and wives to a questionnaire…

This report examines what people in the developing countries think about population policy--a topic that is emerging as a subject of critical concern to governments of those countries. In 1973, five seminars were held in different parts of the developing world. Each seminar was limited to 20-25 participants selected from five to nine countries.…

Examines recent trends in population growth in Australia from the perspective of their effects on the school-age population. Projected trends indicate that this population will at most be stable and probably will decline. Notes how the composition of this population is changing, with increasing levels of diversity and inequality. (EV)

This paper uses multiple linkage analysis to identify greater than expected out-migration flows (salient flows or links) from State Economic Areas (SEAs) within the southeastern United States for two time periods, 1955-60 and 1965-70. In addition, the number of salient flows per SEA are compared with selected characteristics of the SEA, such as…

Discusses how five powerful forces have the capacity to reshape higher education: the rise of an information economy, changing demographics, new technologies, privatization of higher education, and a convergence of knowledge producing organizations. Describes possible consequences of these forces, including a greatly expanded and more diverse set…

Dominica is the largest and least densely populated of the islands of the Organization of Easter Caribbean States. This paper provides a socioeconomic overview of Dominica and highlights the nation's efforts to comply with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The paper provides data on population, sex…

As couples choose to have fewer children, to have their first child later in their adult life, or to remain childfree, there is growing interest in the antecedents of these fertility choices. To examine the hypothesis that couples who choose to remain childfree have less traditional sex-role orientations than couples who choose to become parents…

This paper attempts to assess the potential for educational achievement, especially among children, of recent West Indian immigrants to the United States. Two basic sources have been used: data collected for the author's dissertation, and interviews with high school principals in Brooklyn, New York. After an overview of the history of West Indian…

Eugenics was not exclusively the concern of conservatives; it also appealed to certain socialists, particularly those whose middle class status was dependent upon their expert services and who believed that social problems could be resolved scientifically. Reasons for the appeal of eugenics to this group are discussed. (IS)