This article studies British students, mainly girls, taking a two-year "social care" course in the nonadvanced sector of further education. Although job opportunities in this field are declining, enrollment is increasing. The view that these students have limited opportunities, due to home life and limited educational ability, is…

This report is the third in a series of reports that present a national profile of the Student Support Services (SSS) Program. It presents grantee data from 2000-01 and 2001-02 for the first time and includes data from earlier years for comparison purposes. The following are appended: (1) Response Rates and Data Issues; (2) Risk Factors of 1995-96…

Educational institutions, families, and communities are not meeting the educational needs of more than 50 percent of the students enrolled in public and private schools in the United States. In 1997, only 43 percent of high school seniors reported themselves to be in demanding "academic" programs, compared with 45 percent in…

Results of school district reorganization may be viewed in a number of ways. Frequently progress is measured in terms of the number of local districts eliminated by incorporating their territory in larger units. Results may likewise be measured by increases in the number of new districts having certain characteristics of size or other features…

To discover the comparative effects of ethnicity and social class on the achievement of children in school, findings reported on variations in school achievement attributable to ethnic and social class differences are examined from a cross cultural perspective. (Author/JM)

Prepared as a position paper for the Student Health Organization of the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. (AF)

Advocates that "the principal goal of education become the training of culturally pluralistic individuals....From our point of view, equality in terms of education will be measured by the student's relative awareness of the range of possible statuses and roles, and by the student's relative ability to effectively compete for those statuses and…

The research summarized and reported contradicts the view that schooling makes little difference and that its improvement in quality and equality of opportunity lies beyond our reach. (Author)

Examines patterns of enrollment, choice, and degree attainment of undergraduate students attending college between 1975 and 1986 in five metropolitan areas with private institutions as well as public systems enlarged during the postwar period. Finds that minority access as well as achievement have diminished considerably since the mid-1970s. (DM)

Studies show that students completing Certificate of Sixth Year Studies (CSYS) in Scotland do not significantly nor consistently achieve better results in first-year university courses. Questions the basis of Howie Report and Scottish Education Office endorsements of the CSYS as a way of channeling more students into higher education. (KS)

Addresses two questions: (1) Why are there not more defensible studies proving that middle-level programs, practices, and policies work?; and (2) Does the middle school work? Argues that middle-level research is ahead of research in other levels during similar time frames and proposes a model to address the impact of middle schools. (SD)

The standards movement arose from the struggle for equal educational opportunity in American public education. Beginning with the seemingly simple task of defining an adequate education in student content standards, reform graduated to setting professional requirements for teachers and paraprofessionals and for professional inservice training.…

As new standards for students are taking effect, large disparities continue to exist in the educational opportunities available to rich and poor students in most states. These disparities are especially pronounced in California, where thousands of students attend school in dilapidated buildings, without textbooks, materials, or qualified teachers.…

Every day, an estimated 2,500 students across the nation drop out of high school. In the last decade, approximately 30 percent of students who enrolled in high school have failed to graduate four years later. The situation is even more dismal for youth of color. In 2003, only 55 percent of African Americans and 53 percent of Hispanics graduated…

The transition from high school to adult life is an exciting time for many young people. Youth from high poverty backgrounds, however, are considered at-risk for a host of unfavorable outcomes including academic failure, school dropout, drug abuse, unemployment and incarceration. These adolescents are more likely than their more affluent peers to…