Education and national development
It is suggested in this paper that educators give serious thought to boarding schools to help reduce the cumulative achievement deficit between most middle and lower class children in the United States. The author recalls his own experience with boarding schools in Nigeria, reviews the ineffectiveness of compensatory education in America, and summarizes the history of residential schooling in Europe and North America. It is pointed out that many of the privileged in this society have long enjoyed the alternative of boarding schools while the only residential institutions available to most of the poor are the armed forces and the puoiit j~ils.
Primary Education in Brazil
Brazil resembles, in some ways, other underdeveloped countries which are struggling to free themselves from the suffocating grasp of an agrarian past through the slow but steady adoption of the technology of industrialism and the transformation of its institutions. The changes, however, are not progressing evenly on all fronts. For example, its newly introduced factories and network of air transport contrast sharply with still existent primitive agricultural practices. Its traditional political processes yield slowly to new demands. And its conservative educational system, partly from neglect and partly from indifference, has failed miserably to meet the needs of an emerging industrial society. The goal of Brazilian educational leaders is to provide a system of universal and obligatory primary education. It is also their hope to modernize teaching methods and curricula, to stimulate enthusiasm for professionalization, and to bring the salaries of teachers to a level commensurate with
Changing Attitudes of Students in West African Society Toward Marriage and Family Relationships
T)VERY well-informed person knows that there is 'ferment' in P Africa and that political, social and economic changes are going on at a 'jet-propelled' rate. This article, the first in a series, examines some aspects of change in the family institution in Ghana. It deals with the trend toward change in the basic processes underlying the farnily as an institution as reflected in attitudes. The findings are based upon a questionnaire study of a sample of secondary school students in Ghana.