This document consists of the two issues of the "Alabama Counseling Association Journal" published during 1997. The focus of the journal is on communicating ideas and information that will help counselors to implement the counseling role and develop the profession of counseling. The following articles are contained in issue 1:…

This action kit highlights steps city officials can take to help young people who are not connected to school, work, or caring adults. The kit recommends steps that cities can take to promote educational achievement, develop stronger workforce connections, support youth in transition from the foster care and juvenile justice systems, and build a…

Reviews how ethnicity, race, and gender affect women's professional participation in academia, particularly in psychology departments. Examines minority women's inclusion at undergraduate, graduate, job entry, and senior level positions within academic psychology; and reviews economic and social-psychological processes that unjustly serve as…

This article explores the student resistances that shape orientations to schooling. Drawing on a study of Latina/o youth, I examine how race and gender influence whether they perceive education as oppressive or useful in resisting oppression. The key lever that may alter their perceptions is how school and society treat Latinos differently from…

This book encompasses a systematic, comparative study of change in educational stratification in 13 industrialized countries, exploring which societal conditions help reduce existing inequalities in educational opportunity. The contributors show that in most industrialized countries inequalities in educational opportunity among students from…

This report reviews the activities of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) for disadvantaged students at the independent colleges and universities of New York State. HEOP provides supportive services to eligible students, including pre-freshman summer work; remedial, developmental, and supportive courses; tutoring; and counseling. HEOP…

Participation in education in Australia is reported, with attention to: completion of year 12; postsecondary education; technical and further education (TAFE); apprenticeships; higher education; universities; Colleges of Advanced Education (CAEs); and degree programs. Data from two national probability samples of young people 4 years apart in age…

Characteristics, experiences, and aspirations of black graduate and professional students at six large and predominantly white state universities were surveyed in 1981. Attention was directed to grade point averages (GPAs), involvement in professional activities, program of study, educational and occupational histories, career choice, relations…

This is the appendix to the study "What Works? An Examination of Effective Schools for Poor Black Children." The study identified and described urban schools that were considered effective in providing quality education for economically disadvantaged black students. This appendix contains a comprehensive bibliography and abstracts of literature…

The paper explores types of secondary education offered to students of various social backgrounds in Teheran, Iran, and examines processes by which students are guided into educational tracks. The hypothesis is that assignment to an academic versus a vocational program and tracking within these programs plays a major role in the type of…

This report summarizes the National Planning Association's pilot study of the implications of economic and social change for educational policy in the next two decades. Research is concentrated on changing manpower needs and on the challenges they are likely to present for designing the educational systems of the 1970's and 1980's. Anticipated…

Disadvantaged students need more than financial support if they are to function well in a community college. The hypothesis of this study is that non-traditional students who take advantage of the total Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) package will perform better academically than those who utilize only financial aid. A review of…

A learning center project to "improve and expand the educational and employment opportunities for all residents in the Portland, Maine, Model Cities target area who are 16 years of age and older and who have not reached the grade eight education level" is described. The five-phase project proposes to: "(1) design an experimental…

Analysis of data collected from mothers of 162 six year olds determines that the number of adult male relatives who took the child on outings away from home was positively related to the child's report card score. This effect, however, was restricted to one-parent (mother-only) boys, who are the most at-risk group in the sample. (Author/BJV)

Results of the "A Study of Schooling" survey indicate that the practice of tracking in secondary schools makes it difficult for schools to achieve either academic excellence or equality of educational opportunities. Tracking, furthermore, forces schools to perpetuate social and economic inequalities. Eight footnotes are appended. (IW)