This article examines the salience of collective "memory" and "remembering" among a group of students in Hip-Hop Lit, a hip-hop centered English literature course that I co-taught at "Howard High School," an urban high school in the Northeastern United States. Specifically, this article examines the memory work that occurred within Hip-Hop Lit in…

Through the in-depth analysis of the features of Huabei rural industrialization, the unique factory regime in Baigou, Hebei, and the resulting special workers, this paper reveals two dilemmas the migrant workers in Baigou and larger Hubei area face: Because of the interpersonal network of labor market, personalized trade, familial labor process,…

This paper presents the results of a survey study to understand the differentiation of tuition and fee charges at postsecondary education institutions. The purpose of this study is to understand the extent to which postsecondary institutions set charges that differ depending on academic program, student status, residency, student service in the…

This study aimed to study the andragogical and pedagogical orientations of adults learning English as a foreign language. The Turkish version of the Educational Orientation Questionnaire (Christian, 1983) was used. Sixty adults at evening classes in Turkey were included in the study. The results of the study revealed that the subjects were more…

A class conducted to broaden the horizons of public school teachers is described. (CK)

The purpose of this study was to examine what types of initiatives exist to increase access to and affordability of postsecondary education, especially in community college programs that lead to occupational advancement. We reviewed community college agency and state legislative Web sites to discover what initiatives or policies are currently…

A night school provides individualized learning prescriptions in such courses as reading, study skills, applied math, and computers to learning disabled adults. (CL)

A study was made of 30 coeducational junior colleges to gather information on staff characteristics; characteristics of the evening school administrator; selection, orientation and inservice training, and evaluation of teaching staff; salaries; and student personnel services. (PT)

This textbook is an arithmetic course with lessons adapted to the age, attainments, and practical experience of evening-school students. The lessons in this text represent a course sufficient in length for at least two years.

Article describes a new upper division Bachelor's degree program conducted only in the evening at College of Notre Dame in California. (MM)

Po Ako, a community-based project, was created to break the experience of absence--cultural alienation and educational exclusion--overwhelming the Tongan students in Aotearoa New Zealand. In January 1991, not a single Tongan student attending Mt. Roskill Grammar School in Auckland passed the national examination for a School Certificate. In May…

This is a translation of Chapter 8 of "Narodnoe obrazovanie v SSSR, 1917-1967 ("Public Education in the USSR, 1917-1967 ), edited by M.A. Prokof'ev et al. and published by Prosveshchenie Press, Moscow, 1967.

Dodgen Middle School in Marietta, Georgia, has a well developed school-community program, operated in conjunction with eleven other Cobb County middle schools, offering quality courses for minimal fees. (MJB)

This study of newspaper advertisements in London and Philadelphia in the mid-eighteenth century reveals similarities in the public lectures and private instruction/evening schools offered for adults. Differences illustrate how colonial Americans were able to modify British institutions for their own needs. (SK)