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THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF many Canadian families is clearly intertwined with the economy and its labor market. The on going impact even on family structures--postponed marriage, decreased family size, adult [...]

Describes elementary school preservice teacher's beliefs, understandings, and instruction of struggling and non-struggling readers as they evolved over time. Finds the preservice teachers improved in their abilities to integrate their personal, practical, and professional knowledges to inform their reading instruction. Suggests how university reading education courses may support the learning and development of future preservice teachers. (SG)

Examines the effects of a balanced, accelerated, and responsive literacy program on the reading growth of second grade struggling readers. Finds that students grew in their word identification abilities, fluency, strategic comprehension abilities, perceptions of themselves as readers, attitudes toward reading, and instructional reading levels. Details the accelerated progress of students. Notes instructional implications. (RS)

Presents an analysis of teacher research studies that illustrates the variety of choices teachers make in exploring questions within their own classrooms. Concludes with a representation of an array of possibilities from which teacher researchers might choose or use to guide them as they select or invent their own methodological solutions within their classroom inquiries. (SG)

Describes research projects conducted in a first-grade literature-based reading program; a second-grade fluency-oriented reading instructional program that uses both children's literature and a basal reader; and a second-grade literature/strategy-based program. (RS)

Provides perspectives on reading instruction of experienced, grades K-12 educators who were enrolled in a graduate school class on reading research, programs, and models, and their teacher. Shares some of the misconceptions or overgeneralizations that they have heard or read about reading instruction, as well as their reaction to these ideas. (SG)

Federal and state funding for social services has been drastically reduced in the past 10 years. This qualitative study examined nine agencies in Massachusetts to determine social worker and client impressions of the effects of cutbacks on agency policy and service delivery. The study found increased demands on social workers for higher productivity levels and more documentation; a deterioration of collaborative work environments; an inability to meet treatment goals; more severe client conditions on entering and leaving the system; and demands for inappropriate service delivery. The progress achieved by expanded community services is now being reversed by a system paralyzed by too many cuts. Key words: clients; cutbacks; privatization; social services; social workers, Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s saw a philosophical shift on the federal level from the public commitment of the Great Society programs toward privatization of public services and individual [...]

A young adult with severe disabilities was taught to initiate, sustain, and terminate an Atari video game. A multiple probe design across these three skills clusters was used to validate the instructional package. Instruction consisted of total task presentation with teacher praise for correct task step performance and a gradually increased intervention hierarchy for task step errors. (Author/CL)

Unpaid work, as a sociological construct, initially emerged in relation to reproductive labour and, in particular, women's unpaid household work. However, unpaid work, in the sense of socially required and routinized labour that is normatively not compensated in terms of monetary and other tangible mechanisms of exchange, has mushroomed in the context of the grim economy. Here, the authors locate unpaid work historically by considering the direct physical force that underlies slavery and work within total institutions, and then analyze the contemporary subtle, indirect pressures exercised by hegemonic ideologies to sustain unpaid internships and unremunerated working days. Secondly, we argue that unpaid work is expanding in the current historical/economic context. Finally, we propose that shifts in the nature of the capitalist economy and the evolution of the so-called 'fear' economy along with the related expansion of the neoliberal state should be seen as key factors precipitating the growth in unpaid work and, therefore, a dramatic intensification of patterns of exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By Robin Leidner. University of California Press, 1993. 278 pp. $15.00. As often noted, the expansion of service sector employment is transforming Westem expectations about paid employment. Robin Leidner suggests [...]