Educable mentally retarded children were mainstreamed into regular elementary school classes. Experimental subjects worked on a multimedia project with four to six nonretarded classmates. After eight weeks of treatment, the nonretarded children's acceptance of their experimental peers improved significantly more than that of the control children.…

Positive teacher affect, as measured by student reports, was not found to be positively related to achievement. There was a significant inverse relationship among low-socioeconomic-status students. ( JD)

School-level socioeconomic status (SES), racial composition, and climate were each highly related to mean school achievement; only a small proportion of the between-school variance in achievement was explained by SES and racial composition after the effect of school climate was removed. Student sense of academic futility had the highest…

In tests third graders accepted the idea of equal occupational opportunity, but eighth graders from low socioeconomic backgrounds were more pessimistic about their chance of achieving advanced education and a good job. (Ed.)

Utilizing data from Maine, this article suggests that the relatively young, highly educated professionals currently migrating into rural areas should be considered in terms of rural development resources. (JC)

Machiavellianism is associated with higher levels of occupational prestige and higher incomes. For men with below-average educations, Machiavellianism is inversely related to occupational attainment, and unrelated to income. Machiavellianism appears to have a facilitative effect upon women's attainment, but no evidence of an interaction effect was…

The relationship between teachers' attitudes and behavior and the subsequent adult status of sixty children was examined. The findings showed a positive correlation between one first grade teacher and the adult success of children from a disadvantaged urban neighborhood. Includes fourteen tables of data. (EM)

Compares the returns of a medical education as opposed to education for alternative professional careers, using 1970 Census data. The results show that the returns of a medical education exceed those in alternative professions, though when adjustments are made for hours worked, physicians' earnings become roughly equal to those of dentists and…

Compares the relationship between socioeconomic status and academic achievement in Uganda with that in more industrialized societies and investigates the influence of the school in the less industrialized society. The author concludes that the status/achievement relationship is weaker in less industrialized societies but that schools in these…

A report of one of four studies in a series on how women vocational educators see their professional roles. One conclusion borne out by the other studies is that the career aspirations of these women are not astronomical. (Editor/HD)

A study based on data collected during in-depth interviews with a stratified random sample of 23 student families who attended the National Institute of Education (NIE) Career Education Model IV analyzed current perceptions and implied perceptual changes in self and social development. Positive results suggest that avenues of personal development…

Sociometric technique was used to study group dynamics among adult teachers and adult learners in a functional literacy program in order to determine class leadership. The study was undertaken to locate the group structure of students based on perceived best student, intelligence, popularity, and leadership. Four sociograms depict the…

This paper examines reforms proposed and initiated for the purpose of reducing inequalities of opportunity for higher education. Traditional differences in college-going opportunities have not diminshed. Implications of several strategies for dealing with this situation are discussed. (Author)

Studied factors that may explain why low socioeconomic status children have higher self-concepts than high socioeconomic status children. When either the experimenter's negative evaluation or a high standard for judging student work elicited children's negative self-evaluations, self-concepts of low socioeconomic status children were enhanced. (RL)

Studies regarding status aspirations among Mexican-American youth have presumed that life goals are integrated and congruent. An alternative line of inquiry is suggested which questions these assumptions and specifies types of conflicts that may arise among occupational, educational, and familial orientations. (Author)