Reviews recent research on the effect of day care on the intellectual development of advantaged children. Some researchers report beneficial effects, while others report a negative effect on cognitive functions. (RJC)

Explored the effects of the participation of 127 parents and their preschool children in a mandatory parent education component of a preschool program. The parent education program significantly influenced parent-child 20-minute 1-on-1 activities, although no effect on parental attitudes was detected. (RJC)

Investigates educational equity and efficiency of higher education in Argentina. Concludes that despite the fact that public universities are tuition-free, only students from the richest families in Argentina are able to attend universities. Suggests improving higher education equality and efficiency by charging tuition fees and offering selective…

In the last decade, the study of white privilege has reached currency in the educational and social science literature. Concerned with the circuits and meanings of whiteness in everyday life, scholars have exposed the codes of white culture, worldview of the white imaginary, and assumptions of the invisible marker that depends on the racial other…

Substantial classroom experience has made teachers aware that teaching undergraduate sociology courses dealing with minority groups presents a particular set of challenges. The difficulty they confronted in teaching a course dealing with racial and ethnic groups is two-pronged: on one hand, there is the well-documented problematic nature of the…

This study examined how resources, distribution inequality, and biases toward privileged students affected academic performance. Fifteen-year-olds from 41 countries completed a questionnaire and tests in mathematics, reading, and science. Multilevel regression analyses showed that students scored higher in all subjects when they had more resources…

In this article, the author reports from the World Social Forum, the annual gathering of campaigning groups and activists who believe that "another world is possible." The theme of the seventh forum, "People's struggles, people's alternatives," united 50,000 people from diverse cultures and backgrounds who gathered in Nairobi…

Educators are under almost constant pressure to make schooling relevant to the lives of their students. Students, however, who are never exposed to the realms of possibility beyond their own immediate experience hardly have an equal opportunity to enjoy the benefits of education, since everyday experience tends to reinforce social inequalities.…

Although many factors discourage the movement to build a community college on Chicago's wealthy North Shore, a few leaders with political clout won state sanction for such an institution. A flaw in the state law denies the area's citizens a referendum on the issue, but corrective legislation is now pending. (NHM)

This paper examines Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices Scale (CPM) IQ test which is considered by many to be "culture fair." The emphasis is on socioeconomic status but factors of sex and ethnicity are also considered. Two major studies from which socioeconomic status data can be extracted are examined. These and other studies found…

Alexis de Tocqueville's concept of the "tyranny of the majority" can benefit social justice pedagogies owing to its capacity to illuminate the silent, invisible character of hegemonic power. As many critical pedagogues have pointed out, this silent and invisible power seeps not only into the public spaces of education, but also into the…

Two imaginary success-oriented high school boys, one lower class and one upper middle class, discuss their respective attitudes toward school, friends, college, career goals, parents' and society's expectations, and their perceptions of other social classes. (SF)

The article, concerned with problems suggested by one point of a formula for effective communication (that the signs employed must refer to common experience), explores the ways in which culture blocks communication. Middle class institutions are urged to find ways to remove the barriers to communication with the poor. (AJ)

THIS STUDY IS AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE AND COMPARE THE STATUS AND DEGREE OF CHANGE IN SELECTED EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AMONG THREE GROUPS OF CHILDREN WHO ENTERED CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY KINDERGARTEN IN SEPTEMBER 1965. THERE WERE 300 CHILDREN DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR GROUPS (1) 102 CHILDREN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM, (2) 100…

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS PERFORMED WHICH FOLLOWED THREE GROUPS OF CHILDREN (CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED, AVERAGE, AND CULTURALLY ADVANTAGED) THROUGH GRADE THREE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN PERCEPTUAL FACTORS ON SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN BEGINNING READING. INSTRUMENTS USED WERE SELECTED TO IDENTIFY…