Article evaluated the equality of educational opportunities in negro and white schools and, as well, student academic performance. (RK)

In the following pages, author showed how familial structures and processes affected educational roles, and reversing the approach, showed how schooling liberated individuals from the constraints they experienced in the familial context. (Author/RK)

Author presented a critical analysis of the conclusions drawn by Jencks in his book. (RK)

Author concerned himself with the generalizability of Jencks' conclusions to educational policy problems in developing areas. (Author/RK)

Several categories of the Greek population were and have remained "educationally deprived" because the educational system continues to push them to one side. The author discusses how reform legislation will raise Greece's educational standards, but continues to avoid the educational growth of these segments of Greek society. (Author/RK)

The main focus of the 1964 Greek educational reform policies was to make higher education more accessible to students of wider socioeconomic groups coming from all regions of the country. This study attempts to define the degree to which this reform objective has been achieved. (Author/RK)

Reviews three books that address the relations between technology, race, and education, and illuminate the realistic impact that the Internet has had on persons of African descent in the United States and Trinidad. Discusses the digital divide among U.S. racial/ethnic groups and across countries and the social and political implications of the…

Describes the dynamic expansion of Zimbabwe's education system since independence in 1980, and resulting problems of teacher and facility shortages, financial crises, and declining quality. Discusses whether the change to mass education has furthered the revolution's goal of a more egalitarian society. Contains 34 references. (SV)

Concludes that Israel's external high schools resolve a policy dilemma: their accessibility and parallel teaching methods ostensibly provide equal educational opportunities to dropouts preparing for the critical matriculation examinations, but their graduates' low success rate does not threaten the legitimacy of the regular school system. Contains…

Israel's external high schools are nonselective and prepare mainstream dropouts from academic and vocational tracks to take matriculation exams. However, this alternative system is used primarily by students from dominant social groups and, therefore, widens ethnic and socioeconomic gaps in education and opportunity for social mobility. Contains…

Reviews the intersection of social stratification and schools, i.e., how stratification "shows up" in education. Assesses the responsibility and role of the school in creating a balance between the two forces. (Author/RK)

Attempts to summarize the existing "state of the art" in the field of education and inequality in the less developed nations and to point to some promising lines of future research on social inequality. (Author/RK)

Considers 10 features of Japanese educational system which have produced egalitarian educational outcomes and the relation between these egalitarian educational outcomes and egalitarian changes in the structure of adult society. Major shift in national directions and emergence of determined and idealistic teachers are key factors. Makes…

Reviews three books that argue that science education should reflect global scientific contributions, use multicultural and feminist perspectives, and be grounded in everyday life experiences with science. Suggests questions of policy and practice in moving from theory to implementation of a more equitable, socially responsible science education.…