This paper examines the current and changing roles of the school, family and workplace in the development of young people into adults. Due to changes in these institutions, young people are shielded from responsibility, held in a dependent status, and kept away from productive work-all of which makes their transition into adulthood a difficult and…

Neither home nor school now provides youths with the experience and responsibility required for adult-hood. Sociologist Coleman, returning to his pre-Coleman Reort interest in adolescence, suggests that new social institutions fill the gap. (Editor)

Our economic organizations must change rapidly to incorporate the young and to serve as institutions for learning. Education must be reorganized to compensate for recent transitions of families from places of educational resources to the work place as instructor, and to compensate for changing internal structures and policies within the workplace.…

A discussion of the various interpretations attached to term "equality of educational opportunity" which refocuses the debate by suggesting that a more proper formulation would use the term "reduction in inequality" rather than "equality"... Such a formulation implies that public schooling is to reduce handicaps that children face as a function of…

Comments upon a 1981 article by Alexander, Pallas, and Cook. Discusses whether particular standardized tests measure achievement or ability and the implications of this issue for school effects research. (GC)

Addresses two related problems: what are the appropriate measures for comparing effects of blocks or compounds of variables (each block conceived as having a single effect) when the causal ordering is assumed to be known, and how can single measures be created for each such block or compound, so that the comparisons can be made. (Author/JM)

In the future, elementary and secondary schools must regard their role as including tasks beyond educating individual students. Schools will have to provide certain functions which were traditionally provided by the home and the community. Based on this premise, there are implications for the functioning of schools and for the kinds of data needed…

This policy paper addresses policymakers' concerns about parents' dwindling role in their children's lives and the resulting burden that has been placed on schools. A historical perspective of the roles of families and schools is provided. First, the man's employment in a job outside the home as households left the farm, and then the mother's…

Schools are more effective for students from strong family backgrounds than for those from weak ones as a result of the interaction between the resources devoted by the family to the child's education, and the resources provided by the school. The elements the family supplies towards the child's education must be developed through investment in…

Reviews study findings showing that, in comparison to public school students, Catholic school students have higher achievement in mathematics and verbal skills, take more math and English classes, and have lower dropout-rates. Relates high achievement to the "social capital" available to Catholic school children, school staff, and the…