The extent to which medicine is perceived as a viable educational pathway for lower and middle income students and for the racial/ethnic groups underrepresented in medicine is discussed. Data on the income of parents of applicants to and student accepted by U.S medical schools is presented. (MLW)

Gentrification, or the return of the middle class to renovated inner-city neighborhoods, is forcing out the aged and minority poor who can no longer afford the higher cost of housing in those areas. This has created the problem of a population of mostly Blacks and ethnic groups. (Author/MJL)

Middle-class educational demands draw upon a view of the state as primarily an agent of the poor. Such a view wrongly aligns the middle class ideologically with capital and foments opposition toward federal social and educational expenditures on the behalf of deprived or excluded groups in American society. (Author/GC)

As minorities become attached to majority values and culture, they are viewed as part of the larger group, and they share its opportunities. A prolonged effort to teach cultural pluralism may not be in minority students' best interests. If America's problems are to be solved, consensus values must be rediscovered and taught. (PP)

Discusses the need for educators, school librarians, and authors of adolescent literature to provide literature which is at once entertaining and educational for young adults. Some current social factors affecting the emotional and intellectual development of adolescents, including permissive family environments and the impact of television, are…

The authors contend that career education reforms in the United States educational system have stratified the school system and separated lower-class and minority youth from White, middle-class youth. (CT)

Word lists were given to 176 Scottish children, ages 15, 11, 8, and 6. Analysis of variance on recall scores indicated that Jensen's findings of greater recall by middle class children may be only a transitory phenomenon, not evidence of permanent middle class superiority in Level II ability. (Editor/SJL)

Following a mathematics test, 134 sixth-graders from different social class/national origin groups, were asked to attribute causality for their success or failure. All groups tended to attribute success more to internal than external causes and more to stable than unstable causes. Attributions of failure varied between the groups. (Author/SJL)

A truly balanced institution of liberal learning requires that socially useful information be broadly defined in order to safeguard academic freedom and foster the goals of a social democracy. (CJ)

The sample for this study consisted of 200 White, middle class, senior liberal arts majors, equally divided into four political groupings: conservatives, moderates, liberals, and radicals. Questionnaire items gauged specific occupations of interest and the various extrinsic and intrinsic satisfactions subjects expected to derive from work. (SJL)

A random sample of 369 middle-class California women were divided into feminine, androgynous, masculine, and undifferentiated categories based on Bem Sex Role Inventory scores. Significant demographic time utilization, personality, and attitudinal differences were found to be consistent with sex typing. Differences in health were not found.…

Certain aspects of school organization such as rationalization and bureaucratization serve both to fend off parents' demands and to assure at least minimal compliance with these demands. (Author/RLV)

A 14-item questionnaire was administered to 240 White middle class high school students to assess the seriousness of typical adolescent problems. The three most worrisome problems were physical appearance, careers, and grades. Sex, age, and college v work-bound differences are discussed. The questionnaire is included. (Author/SJL)

Maintains that America's lowered expectations about education are not a loss of previous American virtues but neither are they a "culture of indulgence" as Damon suggests; they are simply adaptations by the populace to the difficult job of getting along in a highly competitive world. (MDM)