Using factor analysis, seven socioeconomic indicators and three information activity indicators (written communications, technology, and libraries) were derived to relate social and economic conditions in less developed countries with measures of information activity. Information activity variables are appended. (17 references) (EJS)

Cocaine, the highly addictive substance, is being used by alarming numbers of undergraduates, and many are selling it on their campuses to support their own habits. A questionnaire for students who might be in trouble with cocaine and don't know it is provided. (MLW)

The financial status of nursing schools and colleges in the United States is discussed. Budgetary factors, including sources of funding, how funding is acquired and spent as well as the future of nursing education budgets are examined. (Author/MLW)

The debate over faculty's mandated retirement age involves emotions, professional careers, academic traditions, demographic forces, faculty-administration relations, and national politics, but the arguments are largely technical and cynical. Uncapping the retirement age would serve to further dignify academic work. (MSE)

Discusses the social change that is taking place in Nicaragua, reviews the current literacy and adult education program, and examines the use of media in this program. (MBR)

Focuses on the impact of overseas training on national development objectives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reviews the current economic crisis in Africa and the need for high-level, skilled workers. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of foreign study as a means of developing competent indigenous professionals. Notes pertinent research issues. (SB)

Communities in Israel share educational finance and planning with the national government. Data from approximately 300 schools were analyzed to investigate the relationships between educational expenditures and the following environmental and political variables: (1) community socioeconomic status, size, and education system size; and (2) citizen…

Using cross classifiable pictures, this study assessed taxonomic and thematic clustering in free recall in 240 children, ages seven and ten. The effects of both free and constrained test conditions and developmental, ethnic, and socioeconomic differences, were examined. (BS)

Uses 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican-origin immigrant status groups--post-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. Argues that the pattern of sociodemographic differences reveals that the first two categories contain a substantial…

Acquiring a college degree was found to reduce the likelihood of retirement among professional, technical, and kindred workers, and acquiring a high school diploma was found to make retirement less likely for sales and possibly clerical workers. (Author/RM)

Male and female subjects from low and middle-upper socioeconomic groups were asked to explain their academic success or failure. Few sex or social class differences were found, with most subjects attributing success to internal, medium stable, and controllable causes. (GC)

Examines to what extent school absenteeism and dropout status as an adolescent have implications for performance of other roles subsequently in the life cycle. Domains of adult functioning studied among former truants and dropouts include occupational and educational attainment, health status, delinquency, and patterns of drug use. (GC)

Compared the amount of resources (time and money) families (N=235) devoted to pursuing interpersonal relationships and income-generating activities in an affluent society (U.S.) to a less affluent but rapidly developing society (Mexico). Results showed that the U.S. sample invested less resources pursuing material payoffs than did the Mexican…

Examined effects of amount of television viewing, socioeconomic status, study habits, and home environment on sixth-graders' achievement in reading, mathematics, and written expression. Found, among other results, that students who viewed more than six hours of television per day had sharply lower achievement scores in all three content areas. (PD)

Examines effects of a court-ordered consolidation of 11 school districts in New Castle County, Delaware, for desegregation purposes. Surveys racial and eduational attitudes of parents and students over four years following implementation of the plan. Concludes that those attitude changes which did take place mostly occurred within the first year.…