Introduction / Laurence Roulleau-Berger --

Youth experience, socialization and inequalities in France / Francois Dubet --

Racial isolation, poverty and the limits of local control as a means for holding public schools accountable / Pedro A. Noguera --

The paradox of ethnicity in French secondary schools / Jean-Paul Payet --

Qui s'instruit s'enrichit? Re-examining standards and barriers in education in Quebec / Madeleine Gauthier --

Baby boomers in transition: Life-course experiences of the 'class of '73' [in Canada] / Paul Anisef and Paul Axelrod --

Vocational integration and relationship to work among Quebec youths without high-school diplomas / Claude Trottier, Mircea Vultur and Madeleine Gauthier.