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Gary, Lee P. – 1987
Education is an investment in human potential which effects economic prosperity. The high rate of failure for students in public elementary schools from eight large school districts in Louisiana is alarming. Averaged over the school years 1983-1984 to 1985-1986, the percentage of failures in grades 1 through 8 ranges from 6.65% to 17.6%. The state…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Black Students, Economic Development, Economic Progress
Download full textSouthern Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA. – 1996
This annual report defines three broad areas in which the Southern Education Foundation supports research. The first looks to what kinds of teachers will be needed in the future; the second asks how our best thinking can be translated into effective action; and the third asks how seamless education can be. Programs subsumed under education and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Area Studies, Black Colleges
