This paper examines issues of selection, merging an analysis of policy with data from a qualitative case study. It focuses on the "modernisation of the comprehensive principle" proposed by New Labour, in which selection within schools (through setting "by ability") is increasingly encouraged. Data collected at an inner-city,…

Family literacy is a form of intergenerational learning that is based on the fundamental connection and interaction between the education of children, young people and adults. The family--in its broader sense--builds the foundation for lifelong learning. This book was published to help promote literacy by raising the understanding and awareness of…

This article reports that the number of international students enrolled in American colleges in the fall of 2007 shattered previous records and represents the largest one-year increase in decades, according to new data from the Institute of International Education. Educators and government officials say the bounce indicates that hostile…

In the UK, as in several developed countries, concern has been expressed by interested commentators about the apparent decline of post-16 participation in the "hard" sciences (especially physics and chemistry). While formal full-time participation in 16-19 education and higher education has increased since the 1990s, both the relative and absolute…

This paper examines a timely topic in international youth studies--the transition to (middle-class) marriage--in a developing country, Indonesia. While early marriage in Indonesia is still common in rural areas and marriage itself remains almost universal, these trends are moving into reverse for urban, tertiary-educated middle-class young people.…

The measurement of sociolinguistic behavior requires the formulation of a unit which can take into account continuous, ordered variation within and across discrete linguistic types--the linguistic variable. The linguistic variable, itself an abstraction, is realized in actual speech behavior by variants. The formulation of the linguistic variable…

Adult education agencies were unable to provide programs to attract lower middle-class societal groups. (EB)

Results of two studies found that both younger and older preschoolers were more just than unjust, that the older subjects understood notions of justice better than did younger subjects and that the preschooler's understanding of guilt-innocence, and apology-restitution is clearer than his understanding of intentionality. (Author/WY)

Results of an experimental task administered to 7-8 year old children (24 boys and 24 girls) showed that acquisition of modeled behavior occurred in the absence of vicarious reward, and that, contrary to prediction, vicarious reward had no significant effect on the performance of imitative behavior. (Author/WY)

Conducted content analysis of advice-seeking letters penned between 1925 and 1939 by fathers and mothers concerned with childrearing. Findings support proposition that culture of fatherhood and conduct of fatherhood in Depression-era America were at odds. Found connection between culture of fatherhood and attitudes of mothers toward fathers.…

Discusses the film "American Beauty" in light of a reading of Karl Marx. Finds that the film shows the circularity which marks bourgeois society, even though the rhythm of industry and renovation of the society masks it. States that Marx praises the industry, invention, and innovation of the bourgeoisie. (BT)