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Huurre, Taina; Aro, Hillevi; Rahkonen, Ossi; Komulainen, Erkki – Educational Research, 2006
Background: Education fundamentally shapes an individual's life chances and social status. Duration and level of education are associated with people's incomes, socio-economic status, living standard, lifestyle and the respect and esteem they enjoy. Failure to fulfil educational potential may have long-term consequences for later occupational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Equal Education, Family Characteristics
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Howard-Bobiwash, Heather – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
Between the end of World War II and the early 1970s, many Native women in Ontario came to Toronto in the hopes of accessing higher education, jobs, and freedom denied them on reserves under the oppression of federal government tutelage. However, much of the literature on Native rural-urban migration in Canada concentrates on an association between…
Descriptors: Females, Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Community Organizations
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Workowski, Eric J. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
This study examined the relationship between criminal violence and type of substance abuse among 184 current and former residents of an inpatient non-hospital drug and alcohol treatment facility. The criminal justice system functioned as the source of referral into the program for 89% of the subjects studied while only 11% came to treatment…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Crime, Criminals, Drug Use
Marjoribanks, Kevin – International Education Journal, 2005
In this longitudinal study, relationships were examined between educational aspirations and educational attainment for Australian young adults from different ethnic and social status backgrounds. Participants included 6,811 (3,547 women and 3,264 men) young adults (mean age = 20.3 years) who were in Year 9 when the study began. In the analysis,…
Descriptors: Social Status, Ethnic Groups, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment
Gregory, Kelvin – International Education Journal, 2006
The South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) is a credential and formal qualification within the Australian Qualifications Framework. A recent review of the SACE outlined a number of recommendations for significant changes to this certificate. These recommendations were the result of a process that began with the review panel…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Evaluation Methods, Statistical Bias, Educational Change
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Zhang, Yulin; Liu, Baojun – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
Based on the several surveys conducted since the 1990s onward, this paper aims to demonstrate that in terms of the access to higher education, social class differentiation is far starker than that of urban/rural income in contemporary China. According to the investigation that focused on students enrolled in 37 universities, the chance of farmers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Class, Income, Foreign Countries
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Miltiades, Helen B.; Pruchno, Rachel – Gerontologist, 2002
Purpose: This article explores the association between race and religious coping on caregiving appraisals for mothers who coreside with an adult child with mental retardation. Design and Methods: 71 Black and 71 White women (aged 50 or older) were matched on demographic characteristics to control for the association between race and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Mothers, Females, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities
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Volk, Anthony A.; Craig, Wendy; Boyce, William; King, Matthew – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2006
The authors examined whether perceptions of parents and personal mental health significantly influenced perceptions of school achievement and enjoyment in a large sample of Canadian adolescents. Responses from more than 10,000 Canadian adolescents in the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey were used to create a Parental Support…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mental Health, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Savage, Tom V. – Social Studies, 2003
Those anonymous individuals who develop high-stakes tests by which educational quality is measured exercise great influence in defining educational quality. In this article, the author examines the impact of high-stakes testing on the welfare of the children and the quality of social studies instruction. He presents the benefits and drawbacks of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Testing, Standardized Tests, Social Studies
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Robertson, Donald; Symons, James – Education Economics, 2003
With diminishing returns to the peer group, it is optimal social policy to mix children in schools. We consider what happens when, contrary to the outcome being determined by a social planner, schools and children are free to seek each other out: with some caveats, this leads to perfect segregation by child quality. It is shown that this is the…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Public Schools, Social Planning, Educational Policy
Baptiste, H. Prentice; Michal, Emil J., Jr. – Multicultural Education, 2004
The recognition, development and implementation of multicultural education in America is a relatively new and emerging idea. Prior to the middle of the previous century, the concept of addressing and providing a meaningful educational experience for all students, including students of color, was non-existent. In recent years, through the work of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Policy, Presidents, Educational Innovation
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Burchardt, Tania – Social Indicators Research, 2005
One of the motivations frequently cited by Sen and Nussbaum for moving away from a utility metric towards a capabilities framework is a concern about adaptive preferences or conditioned expectations. If utility is related to the satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual's previous experience of…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Reference Groups, Multivariate Analysis, Justice
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Sillaste, G. G. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
The process of economic reforms in Russia has been accompanied by drastic and negative phenomena in rural education, by a worsening of the already large difference in levels of schooling of young people in the countryside and in the cities. The present study is one of the first attempts at a comprehensive approach, from the standpoint of sociology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Teacher Surveys
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Frankland, H. Corine; Turnbull, Ann P.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Blackmountain, Lavine – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2004
Recent literature in the field of transition studies emphasizes importance of creating self-determination supports to promote independence, autonomy, and quality of life in students with disabilities. Much of that literature, however, has not taken cultural and familial factors into consideration. A review of the Navajo family and disability…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Navajo (Nation), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
Cook, Traci; Blachman, Dara; Dye, Jane; Macartney, Suzanne; Lukacs, Susan; Howie, LaJeana; Kena, Grace; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Truman, Jennifer; Cotto, Jessica; Jekielek, Susan; Mueggenborg, Mary; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Denton, Stephanie; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Knighton, Cindi; Han, Beth; O'Connell, Kellie; Guenther, Patricia; Hiza, Hazel; Kuczynski, Kevin; Koegel, Kristin; Radel, Laura – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011" is a compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Social Indicators, Social Environment, Physical Environment
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