This article illustrates the flexibility and appropriateness of computer networks as an instructional resource for developing basic economic education programs for students with varying characteristics (e.g., public school students, home-bound adults, university-based students, and other adults, etc.). (CT)

This article briefly reviews the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), highlights career development services authorized by the act and identifies some specific activities career development specialists can engage in under the act. A chart is included that lists JTPA provisions, client groups, and authorized career development services. (CT)

Expanding choice among public schools will improve student achievement and provide creative and decision-making professional opportunities for teachers. Three successful choice plans are discussed. Steps for developing choice plans are listed. (PS)

Summarizes the expansion of education in the West Germany up to 1980. Examines the progress of the 1980s in view of unemployment and growing difficulties on entering a profession. Among the findings are a decline in enrollment of 20-24 year olds and a growth in opportunities for the children of immigrants. (Author/GEA)

This paper examines correlative distinctions between the normative and factual senses of rights and the formal and substantive senses of equality of opportunity. Although women frequently have access to formal equality of opportunity, they seldom enjoy substantive equality. The role of education as an agent of reform is explored. (Author/JAZ)

Museums, libraries, zoos, parks, historical sites, and other cultural institutions can be vehicles for much self-directed learning. This article reviews these opportunities and efforts to utilize them. It discusses cultural institutions as invitational environments, conditions of learning in cultural institutions, and tools and initiatives for…

Hispanic, Cape Verdean, and Haitian students, unlike European immigrant children, do not have equal educational opportunity in Massachusetts public schools. Bilingual education alone is insufficient to prepare students for the challenges they must meet in order to take advantage of opportunities available in secondary and higher education. (GC)

Focuses on the education of migrant workers' children originating primarily from Turkey, Italy, Greece, and Yugoslavia. Discusses problems of how to unite integration and cultural identity as educational core values. Presents the educational response at the Federal Republic level and the Laender (State) level. (SA)

Discusses inequities in computer use in terms of: (1) distribution between wealthier and poorer schools; (2) number of Title I and non-Title I students taking programing courses; (3) differences among tracks within the same school; and (4) sex differences in computer uses. Raises questions about efficiency and equity of computer oriented…

It is the responsibility of the teachers to make education a creative experience. Education should give children opportunities to create multiple solutions to identical problems, teach children how to formulate questions and problems, and cultivate the ability to experience the world sensitively. (CT)

The aim of immigrant policy in Sweden is to give the immigrant students an education on a par with that available to Swedish students. How Sweden educates immigrants is described. (RM)

Discusses the problem of minority overrepresentation in special education and suggests that many academic difficulties may result from deficiencies in students' learning environments. Presents procedures for examining and ruling out such probabilities before beginning a comprehensive evaluation of the learner. Proposes a functional assessment…

Describes origin and development of programs, focusing on affirmative action at the Faculty of Northern Peoples of Leningrad's Herzen Pedagogical Institute. Offers conclusions and implications for North America. Includes extensive bibliography, tables on Siberian populations and languages, and biographies of two Siberian educators and two female…

Examines innovation in Scotland from the standpoint of structural change and investigates some of the medium term changes in the relationship between secondary and post-secondary education over the past ten years or so. (Author/RK)

Data collected in Los Angeles indicate that additional financial aid may have a diminishing impact on increasing access. The California Legislature-authorized study revealed that low levels of academic achievement, inadequate information, and inflexible admission policies are greater barriers to college for the poor than financial need.…