Reviews the current state of World English. Subjects addressed include standard accents and dialects, prejudicial attitudes toward nonstandard "local" usages, the use of English as the language of diplomacy, American influences on the language, and the fracturing of English in non-English-speaking countries around the world. (17 references) (JL)

Reports on the financial status of for-profit child care businesses and organizations throughout the United States. Lists the nation's 50 largest for-profit child care organizations. Notes threats and opportunities that center owners face. (BB)

Criticizes the state of educational economics through a review of "Economics of Education: Research and Studies" (G. Psacharopoulos, ed.) and "The Economics of Education and the Education of an Economist" (M. Blaug). Charges that educational economists have ignored external challenges and devastating technical and conceptual…

The ways in which Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians now living in Quebec City (Canada) have established over the last 10-15 years distinct ethnic communities are discussed, and their community structure is described. A limited comparison with some other Indochinese communities highlights some features of the Quebec ethnic groups. (SLD)

Data from two surveys of two- and four-year colleges and universities (n=2,896 and n=1,512) investigated patterns in educational and occupational status of administrators' parents in comparison with the general population and by socioeconomic status, ethnic or minority status, gender, institution type, and position type. The majority of parents…

Pretests and posttests examined how race (white or African American) and social class (health professional or recovered drug user) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) educators affected level of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) knowledge among low-income African Americans. Those who viewed a customized AIDS slide show significantly…

This study examined whether private school attendance provides a net benefit with regard to educational achievement and attainment. Results of using additive models which control for family, individual and school variables found that most, but not all, outcome differences attributable to between-sector differences in student attributes.…

This paper examines the role of athletic participation in the social systems of adolescents. Data from 422 high school students and 319 college students indicate there are differences between males and females in all 3 social status measures of remembrance after high school, type of sport participant preferred for a date or friend, and…

The 1990 Rural Sociological Society's Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty describes rural poverty, comparing it to urban poverty; rejects human-capital, economic-organization, and culture-of-poverty theories of rural poverty and proposes research on 10 other theories; and discusses rural policy and its inequitable emphasis on farmers. (KS)

Investigates the probability of attaining a baccalaureate degree for students from community colleges who transferred to a 4-year college, using data from the 1980 class of the High School and Beyond Survey (1,899 4-year students compared with 422 transfers). Probability of a degree was equivalent for both groups. (SLD)

Discusses various responses to the author's book "Ways with Words--Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms" (1983). Describes how these reactions have led the author to see things in the work that she had not seen before. Strengths and weaknesses of the book she identifies have implications for the conduct of future ethnographic…

Used data from the National Child Development Study of Great Britain to examine the sex education lessons reported at age 16 and subjects' report of teenage motherhood at age 23. Results showed that sex education may be associated with teenage motherhood positively or negatively, depending on the topic and the individual's marital status when she…

Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics show that parental divorce sharply increases probabilities that children will move out of their neighborhoods and will move to poorer neighborhoods. These outcomes are especially pronounced for African Americans and children whose parents were previously homeowners. Remarriage also has…

A study examined the overlap between behaviors associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders and emergent literacy skills in 44 children from middle-income families and 41 Head Start children. Attention problems were associated with literacy skills in both groups, however, the effect was strongest for the middle-income group.…

Assessed the assignment of students in an urban system to ninth-grade mathematics courses against a meritocratic definition of fairness to determine whether the process denied access to students from particular segments of society. Results with 1611 students show that entrance to the gatekeeper mathematics courses was unfairly denied for low…