Many people dissatisfied with the public school system are actively seeking alternatives to public education. In the past, the only alternatives to public school were parochial or private schools or privately hired tutors. Not everyone could afford these alternatives. Over the past 20 years, another alternative to public school education has come…

This study traced boys' and girls' developmental trajectories for key constructs within the Expectancy-Value theoretical framework in relation to secondary school mathematics, using latent growth modeling. These trajectories were contrasted, and explanations were suggested for gender and age effects where they occur. The participants spanned…

This study examined links between early adolescent exposure to entrepreneurial gang activity and later criminal justice, economic, and social outcomes, comparing the social and behavioral outcomes of young people with active gang involvement and their non-gang affiliated counterparts. Participants came from a concentrated poor, predominantly…

This document presents the curricula and space utilization program of the Buckeye Valley Middle School in Ohio, which is designed to effectively address the learning and socialization needs unique to middle school students. The paper first explains these unique learning needs. Then it examines why a program to meet these needs is important. The…

To better understand the perceptions of new faculty regarding the professional socialization process, a qualitative study of faculty socialization was conducted at a comprehensive state-supported university. Fourteen faculty members hired within the last 3 years, whether inexperienced, experienced, or returning (those who had worked in another…

Viewing all students as potential voters, the author asserts the need for including political education in school curricula and suggests the viability, as well as form, of its inclusion. (JH)

The present study evaluates the relationship between social learning and developmental theories in the prediction of changes in cognitive behavior. (Author)

This essay describes and analyzes the ways in which the different Iraqi regimes have provided, unsuccessfully, for the education of its largest minority group, the Kurds. An effort will be made to assess the extent of the integration of the Kurdish minority into the mainstream of the Iraqi society. (Author)

The author reports on a study that assesses a model curriculum designed to promote psychological growth in women. (RP)

Suggests that while the availability of television in a community affects the dissemination of political information, it is family politicization that is at the root of the causal chain to political interest, media use, and political information. (TO)

From socialization theory a relationship is hypothesized between sex-saliency of family and peer group context and level of sexual activity. The hypothesis is confirmed in the case of family context, but the relationship is shown to be curvilinear in the case of the peer group. (Author)

A look at children's play in India and its curious mixture of generosity and hostility. The universality of play is discussed. (ST)

This paper examines the extent to which psychology, especially learning theory and research deriving from it, can contribute to a better understanding of the role of cultural values in relation to school achievement. (Author)

Home, neighborhood, and community are critically examined from the perspective of a young child, and some hard questions are posed as to the value structures that various environments implicitly reinforce. (CS)

This paper is a review of the existing sytem of self-management and its development in Yugoslav universities. The Belgrade University serves as an example of this self-management which is an expression of the social and political aims of the country. (JH)