Traces the educational progress of a successful working-class student from his first days in school, when he was unprepared and barely able to speak English, until he concluded his studies 21 years later in the British Museum. (DD)

Reports on recent developments and programs in education across the country. (RK)

This report examines education and the economic rewards to education among Hispanic Americans, documenting the gap in educational outcomes for Hispanics relative to non-Hispanic Whites. It also provides evidence about the increasing importance of education to economic success among Hispanics in the new economy, highlighting the high-paying sector…

States have the legal responsibility and authority to provide public education for their citizens. How each state fulfills its responsibility varies. Whether state education agencies (SEAs) are supporting school reform efforts, providing technical assistance, defining and controlling educational content, or assessing the outcomes of education, it…

For too long, education in West Virginia has operated as a series of discrete silos: early childhood programs, elementary schools, middle grades, high schools, vocational and technical programs, two-year community and technical colleges, workforce training, four-year colleges and universities, and graduate education. As students move from one silo…

Study of the mechanisms by which social origins influence educational attainment and the importance of education attainment in the determination of one's place in the social hierarchy. (Author)

Shows that substantial inequality of economic opportunity exists in the U.S. and that the educational system is a major vehicle for the transmission of economic status from one generation to the next. (RJ)

Asserts that judicial hostility to majority-black schools reinforces the national belief that minority-black schools are bad schools, thus insuring that integration in education must continue to reflect preference for middle-class, white behavior. (Author/JM)

A policy of lowered standards and expectations for minorities, it is suggested, is reflected in the evolution of government-sponsored programs intended to change the pattern of poverty by helping the disadvantaged through educational opportunity. Such programs include Head Start and Cornell University's special education program. (MLW)

Examines the reasons behind and the effects of standardized and minimum competency tests. The authors conclude that the tests lead towards lower performance expectations for disadvantaged students, and increasingly rigid tracking along class, cultural, and racial lines. (AM)

Using data from several British local education agencies, this analysis demonstrates that, when such intake variables as social background are controlled, school effects on attainment emerge; that is, students attending the "more effective" secondary schools gain a competitive edge in terms of public examination results. (Author/SJL)

Analyzes documentary evidence about ability grouping and tracking for educating diverse student populations. The article discusses the historical treatment of individual differences, clarifies why and how schools function at present, presents pros and cons of ability grouping and tracking, and discusses the impact of immigrants on issues of equal…

The Coleman report, published 12 years after the Brown decision, confirmed that widespread school segregation in the United States created inequality of educational opportunity. This study examines whether racial and socioeconomic segregation, which is on the rise in the United States, is still contributing to the achievement differences among…

This article centres on the findings of an interpretive case study conducted at a college preparation program at a prestigious university in a major U.S. city that is grappling with a high attrition of poor and working class African American and Latino young men. The purpose of the study is to examine the underlying assumptions about equity and…

The transformation of universities from elite to mass models in developing countries has given the opportunity to new social groups to participate in higher education. As a part of this process, diverse groups of students have benefited in different ways from the equal educational opportunities offered to them. In this paper, we approach the…