Inequality of access to schools of various types can be conceived in at least four different ways: (1) inequality of participation (re: national social composition); (2) inequality of utilization of intellectual potential (re: the ablest from all strata); (3) inequality of chance (re: those who desire an education, regardless of potential); (4)…

Subjects were asked to rate occupational desirability in two different tasks: (1) ratings based on varying levels of salary, workload, and prestige for unidentified occupations; and (2) ratings of actual occupational titles. Ratings of unidentified occupations based on the three factors could be described by an averaging model of the form…

The need to find which social contexts elicit children's fullest language repertoire generated this study of the effects of three social distance variables on language production, as measured by mean length of communication unit, vocabulary diversity, and use of black English. The social distance variables investigated included race and sex of…

Finds that whereas the Atlanta public school teachers were, in 1881, a rather elite group, by 1896 the system was both re-orienting its secondary school curricula to serve an increasingly middle-class student body and hiring more middle class teachers, while in the twentieth century the system turned to teachers with higher levels of training but…

Highlights new sources of socio-economic data from both governmental and non-governmental sources that can be used for planning and programming at the national, state, and local levels. Sources refer to the aged, health, persons of Spanish origin, minority doctorates, employment of minorities and women, and tax relief. (Author/AM)

Results suggest that SES is a greater determinant of participation in private and semi-private out-of-school educational opportunities than is ethnicity. For public area activities use was fairly similar except for the Asian American's reported greater use than the black Americans. Neither propinquity nor parental attitude is related to use.…

A survey of administrative structure and academic status of clinical faculty in accredited schools of pharmacy showed that all responding schools (70 per cent return) have a full-time clinical faculty category with most having part-time and unsalaried as well. Information on departmental power, promotion, tenure, and reappointment are included.…

Proposes an approach to French language instruction which stresses themes, such as literature, law, economics, and management, rather than specific occupational levels, so as to respect the needs of adult continuing education students of all socioeconomic levels. (AM)

Teachers of the children of very rich parents must be flexible in their standards in dealing with them. The attitude of these children toward school, classmates, and the teacher varies greatly from that of the average student. (JD)

Twenty-one variables from the Texas Teacher Effectiveness Project Coding System were factor analyzed for morning whole class data, afternoon whole class data, and reading group data. Resulting factor scores were correlated with achievement gains. Although significant correlations were few, differences existed between lower and higher social status…

Teachers evaluated taped speech samples of middle and lower socioeconomic status (SES) black and white children. Adequacy of task performance was equivalent for all groups, although speech patterns varied as a function of race and social class. White middle SES children were rated and ranked more positively than their counterparts. (Author/CP)

The central thesis of this essay is that the subordinate status occupied by blacks because of racial stratification requires and promotes lower school performance or school failure and therefore that the school failure is a kind of adaptation to the phenomenon of job and role ceiling. (Author/AM)

The present study investigated the gender biases of children judging the competencies and weaknesses of other children in a school setting as a function of their sex, age, and race as well as a geographical SES factor. It was found that these biases exist and diminish somewhat with age. (Author/AM)

Examines the effect of school desegregation upon the process of students' status attainment by comparing high school students in segregated and desegregated schools. Few differences were found in levels of educational and occupational aspirations or educational attainment. However, marked differences were found in the process of attitude…

First and second grade Jerusalem children were administered end-of-year mathematics tests. Lower class children from open integrated classrooms scored higher than those in traditional integrated settings, and children in homogeneous settings scored the lowest. The performance of middle class children was differentially affected by integration and…