Reviews recent studies on Black Americans in science and technical fields. Identifies participation trends and factors inhibiting participation and performance. Discusses factors that must be addressed to increase the numbers of Blacks in science and engineering and proposes that greater support efforts be made. (KH)

Examines the issues and controversies related to immigration in Australia, the acceptance of the "multicultural Australia" concept, and the educational system's structure. Argues that while there has been a manifest transition from migrant to multicultural education, forces favoring the status quo have created a latent, de facto ethnic…

By 1985, California will have become the first Third World State in the continental United States; there is a critical need for changes in the pervasive ethnocentric pedagogy to make schools more responsive to the multicultural reality of student populations. (CMG)

Data collected in Los Angeles indicate that additional financial aid may have a diminishing impact on increasing access. The California Legislature-authorized study revealed that low levels of academic achievement, inadequate information, and inflexible admission policies are greater barriers to college for the poor than financial need.…

Outlines the history, present status, and future prospects of bilingual education in Slovenia, Yugoslovia. The way in which Italians, Hungarians, and Slovenes experience the right to equal education in a socialist society is described. (Author/DB)

Policy questions are posed that focus on current problems that minorities face in realizing equal educational opportunities. The answers to these questions will direct efforts to the planning and coordination of problem-solving strategies. (Author/LBH)

This parent guide gives a general overview of student voucher programs. It explains the difference between vouchers and other school choice plans, such as charter schools and inter-district choice. It provides a summary of the research on the impact of vouchers on student academic outcomes and on public school performance. It describes how several…

This paper describes incentives established to confront longstanding differences in test performance by race and ethnicity and to set student performance goals. The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 aspires to set goals for subgroups defined by race/ethnicity, economic disadvantage, disability, and English language learner status. A growing…

The purpose of this study was to examine certain objective admission criteria at open admission institutions, eliminating the problem of truncated variable distribution. Minorities who are admitted to selective colleges and universities with lower than average Scholastic Assessment Test or ACT Assessment test scores (1100 and 27, respectively) in…

College students from minority groups in the United States, Canada, and Tanzania were asked how they could be helped to learn effectively in a university mainstream culture. Eleven groups of undergraduate students and six groups of graduate students were involved in the study over 7 years, with the number of students per group ranging from 11 and…

Young people from lower class origins continue to face major barriers to university education in Canada. This paper documents both substantial inter-generational class mobility and continuing inequalities in formal educational attainments by class origins. While Canada now has the world's higher educational attainments in its youth cohort and has…

An examination of the U.S. and Israel points up ways in which the emphasis on egalitarianism in the founding political doctrines of each has determined much in its institutional practices and patterns of behavior, and the repeated efforts of each to "equalize" hierarchies imposed seemingly by social necessity. (Author/JM)

A briefing paper sums up the provisions of a new Federal law that offers support to a range of efforts to deal with racial isolation. (Editor)

Discusses the problems and progress of Open Admissions at City University of New York. (DM)

The present educational system is attacked for its failure to meet the needs of today's students. The new math and other innovative programs have not fulfilled their stated objectives. (CK)