An historical discussion of the application of psychological research and theory to education determines that educational psychology has not been developed separately from psychology. (ND)

Describes the composition of the migrant worker population in the countries of Western Europe and traces developments in government policies regarding control and stabilization of immigration, provision for education and granting of political rights. (Editor)

Paper examined how geographic patterns in distribution of immigrants' residences facilitate or constrain educational opportunities for their children. Some effects of a policy of cultural pluralism were also identified, and particular emphasis is given to how cultural diversity within each immigrant group modifies the effects of cultural…

Article summarizes an extended study carried out by Oberlin College, Ohio. Bright thirteen-year old black pupils were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Comparisons between the two groups showed that nearly all students--from backgrounds where completing secondary school and attending college are both unexpected--entered…

The author deals with the education of Turkish migrants' children and the handicaps existing for equal access to all educational opportunities. (Editor)

Britain is a multi-cultural society which now includes some 1 1/2 million people of Asian and Afro-caribbean origin, over 40 percent of whom were born in the U. K. This paper examines whether teacher training institutions have responded to this new situation and suggests as to how such training can be provided. (Editor)

Current research emphasizes the importance of the mother tongue in second language teaching. This paper describes a longitudinal project which studies 4 groups of Finnish children in Malmo, Sweden, who are receiving a bilingual education starting from the pre-school. (Editor)

The focus of this article is on children of migrant workers and immigrants in the schools of West Germany, Sweden and England. One central problem, that of language, is considered both as it is dealt with in policy, i. e., in curricula, and as it is actually implemented in some programs, which are typical for the actions in these countries.…

Two areas in which the question of equality rises in education are considered: the claim that everyone has an equal right to education, and the argument of equality between the different participants in the educational process itself. (Author/KM)

It is argued that the mainstream of the theory on which the policy of equal educational opportunity is based has its origins in the nineteenth, as well as the twentieth, century. (Author/KM)

Expanding on his definition of equality of educational opportunity, James Coleman suggests that it is important to connote the fact that the schools' task is to reduce the unequalizing impact of students' home and school environments. (Author/KM)

The impact of poverty and dispossesion is investigated, describing the manner in which social and cultural background affects upbringing and thereby affects intellectual functioning. (Author/KM)

It is concluded that equality of endowment is a myth and that equality of opportunity presents a more realistic ideal to follow. (Author/KM)

Some of the key problems of educational equality -- equality of opportunities and inequality of performance; individual differences vs. group differences, coping with group inequality -- are made explicit. (Author/KM)

A few of the interactive effects between schooling and patterns of options in life before and after experience in schooling are singled out for comment in their relation to education in economic terms. (Author/KM)