caa a22 4500 397524706 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199505 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036348 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036348 Regional Differences in Soviet Secondary Education [Elektronische Daten] [MIKK TITMA, ELLU SAAR] In this paper the process of educational tracking after completion of the 8th grade in the former Soviet Union is presented. The Soviet secondary school system was divided into three separate tracks: to general secondary school, to specialized secondary school, and to vocational school. The selection into these three types of secondary education has a crucial influence on future progress and on selection for further education. This selection was ubiquitous in the socialist educational system. The analysis in this paper is based on the longitudinal survey Life Paths of a Generation. The first survey, carried out in 1983-5, included 60 000 seniors from general secondary schools, vocational schools, and specialized secondary schools. Regions were selected to represent the diversity of cultures in the former Soviet Union, and in each of the selected regions a representative sample of the three forms of secondary school was chosen. We conclude that a real equalization of educational opportunity has been achieved in the Soviet Union, but that strong regional differences remain, not only in the availability of secondary education, but more importantly in the types of secondary schools which exist. The tracking process beyond 8th grade varies by region, depending on the relative proportion of the different types of secondary school in the region and on the specific demands of the local labour market. The variation is so wide that the same factors can have opposite influences in different regions. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence TITMA MIKK Department of Sociology, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2047, USA aut SAAR ELLU Institute of international and Social Studies EE-0001 Estonia clvd 7, Tallinn, Estonia aut European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 37-58 0266-7215 11:1<37 1995 11 eursoj https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036348 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036348 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- TITMA MIKK Department of Sociology, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2047, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SAAR ELLU Institute of international and Social Studies EE-0001 Estonia clvd 7, Tallinn, Estonia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 37-58 0266-7215 11:1<37 1995 11 eursoj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford