Ensuring all students have opportunities to engage in scientific argumentation is a key goal for K-12 students. While research has shown that teachers' beliefs about argumentation can impact their classroom instruction and that students in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools are less likely to experience challenging science learning, there is…

Due to the unique applications of virtual reality in many modern contexts, Second Life (SL) offers inimitable opportunities for research and exploration and experiential learning as part of a distance learning curriculum assignment. A review of current research regarding SL examined real world social influences in online interactions and what the…

The second book edition of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches eliminated jokes about drinking and religion. Although these were small changes, the edgy theme of drinking and religion as topics that could and sometimes should be taken lightly (even by a writer who also considered both topics as serious) interested Alcott throughout her career.…

The idea of what constitutes literacy in the classroom is mostly determined by middle-class school officials and state and federal administrators. The discourse of minority populations is marginalized and not readily recognized or incorporated into mainstream instruction. This impacts not only the ability of these students to be accountable…

Reviews syntheses of adult education from various European countries and from differing sociopolitical points of view. Attempts to identify the type of each synthesis. (CH)

Reprint of a 1978 article that describes the alienation and escapism that prevail among Black women inmates of Riker's Island prison in New York City. Calls for Black women to unite against racial, sexual, and economic oppression. (GC)

Considers the impact that social changes in the 1970s had on black men. Discusses young blacks' school experiences and role models; military experience; the labor market and affirmative action; and the masculine mystique that affects the expectations of black men. (MK)

Increases in legitimate opportunities for women may be accompanied by increases in female criminality. Crucial links between opportunity and delinquency are identified. The equal opportunity hypothesis is expanded into a comprehensive predictive model. (Author)

Shows that in Canada, with educational system similar to that in United States, expansion of relatively unstratified secondary educational system during twentieth century was greatly facilitated by increase in gross national product. Notes that increase was great enough to nearly offset cost of expansion, representing powerful economic incentive…

Discusses societal definitions of masculinity and their influence on the ways in which black males relate to one another. The author examines Euro-American and African American models for relating among men, the barriers to male-male relationships, and the limitations in African American modes of relating. (GLR)

This article is based on the general introduction and the opening sections of chapters 1 and 2 from the author's book, "Living in the Labyrinth of Technology." It revisits the process of industrialization as having a dual component: people changing technology and technology changing people. The latter is almost universally overlooked and provides…

A study of the first 80 years (1838-1918) of Central High School in Philadelphia found several factors which encouraged excellence: a meritocratic ideology, voluntary enrollment, competitive selection of students and faculty, and the structure of public education at the time. This picture contrasts sharply with today's educational context. (GC)

Suggests that people's decisions to adopt energy-conserving processes and products is a specific instance of the decision to adopt an innovation. Discusses diffusion processes and factors influencing diffusion of networks. Indicates that the spread of energy-conserving household innovations proceeds primarily along social networks. (Author/MK)

Emphasizes the usefulness of a benefit-cost perspective to generate ideas for encouraging lawful behavior in a variety of different situations. Illustrating the utility of the benefit-cost perspective are traditional criminal behavior, business wrongdoing, and rule violations by public officials. (Author)

Illustrates the effects of rigid language standardization on the literary and cultural development of an ethnic minority in Finland. The article emphasizes some negative effects of language standardization vis-a-vis the culture of this minority group. (Author/PJM)