Presents four essays disagreeing with Farrell's efforts to refute Arthur R. Jensen's genetic explanation of Blacks' lower scores on IQ tests. Presents Farrell's response to these essays. (HTH)

A response to 13 articles on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children address seven areas: validity, theory underlying the intelligence portion, role of the clinicians in intellectual assessment, distinction between ability and achievement, evaluation of alternate models, remedial applications of the sequential-simultaneous processing…

Compared motivation and values in Japanese and American managers who completed the Rokeach Values Survey and an upward mobility questionnaire. Results showed the Japanese attached greater importance to socially beneficial values but also valued accomplishments, advancement, and money, in contrast to American emphasis on individuality and…

American educators are warned not to overlook cultural differences in a rush to implement English models of open education. (GW)

Describes a course for foreign students at the secondary level which attempts to help students with their concerns regarding identify, socialization, prejudice, values, and decision-making. (Author)

Middle-aged middle-class women (N=200) in suburban cities in the United States and Japan are compared with regard to their attitudes toward and behavior in extramarital sexual relations. The primary difference seems to lie in their attitudes rather than in their experiences. (Author)

Significant differences between Indians and Canadians in verbal responses to musical intervals support the hypothesis that these cultural groups differ in their reactions to these elementary musical materials. (Author/AM)

International students teach in many American universities, especially in the areas of engineering, math, and physics. However, the quality and effectiveness of their instruction can be a debatable and controversial issue. This article focuses on the challenges that international students face in the classroom, and what the university can do to…

This paper uses two terms, "algorithmic mathematics" and "dialectic mathematics," and attempts to synthesize the two aspects from a pedagogical viewpoint with illustrative examples gleaned from mathematical developments in Eastern and Western cultures throughout history. Some examples from teaching experiences in the classroom…

This digest is intended to guide parents and teachers in helping children deal with the attacks of September 11, 2001 through the use of literature. It begins with suggestions, guidelines, and strategies which parents and teachers can use to help children deal with the tragedy, and it discusses the role of literature in helping children at a time…

This article investigates the impact and necessity of multicultural training in administrator-preparation programs, and the extent to which administrators can ensure that teachers honor diversity. The importance of the quality of the administrator's training is emphasized. Dimensions of multicultural education may include content integration,…

This paper asserts that creating successful school reform can be difficult. The first part discusses the concept of school culture to explain challenges to school reform, examining why existing school culture is necessary for a smoothly functioning and stable school but an obstacle to educational change and noting that attempts to transform school…

Numerous studies (Goldstein, 1985; Rumbaut and Ima, 1988; Walker, 1989; Trueba, Jacobs, and Kirton, 1990 and Walker-Moffat, 1995) have found that the Hmong have extreme difficulties adjusting to the American educational system as compared with other language minority groups. Underlying this difficulty is a fundamental conflict between learning in…

This research report examines the unique preferences, attitudes, motivations, and practices of ethnic Internet users, particularly African Americans and Hispanic Americans, discussing implications for marketing to U.S. ethnic communities. Data come from field research collected between August-November 2000. Researchers partnered with popular…

Sociologists, political theorists, and social historians explore ideological differences, theoretical disputes, social processes, and institutional change related to cultural conflict and social solidarity in the United States. The essays are: (1) "Introduction: The Ideological Discourses of Cultural Discontent. Paradoxes, Realities, and…