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Scheffelin, Margaret Merrick – 1982
A survey of presidents of 21 local chapters of the California Association of Neurologically Handicapped Children--Association for Children with Learning Disabilities was conducted to investigate improvements in attitudes during the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP), the positive changes brought about by IYDP community activities, and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Attitudes, Community Programs
MARASCUILO, LEONARD A. – 1965
A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF OPINIONS HELD BY ADULT CITIZENS OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, CONCERNING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCHOOL INTEGRATION MADE BY A DE FACTO SEGREGATION STUDY COMMITTEE. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE ADMINISTERED TO A STRATIFIED-CLUSTER SAMPLE OF 936 ADULTS. THE RESULTS WERE PRESENTED IN TWO SECTIONS (1) DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Attitudes, De Facto Segregation, Northern Schools
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1973
The Task Force on the Resolution of Conflict was given the responsibility of examining the extent and nature of conflict and violence in high schools in California. To carry out that responsibility, the task force sought to identify factors which could contribute to tension-provoking and conflict-producing situations and to identify those plans…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Conflict
Beverly Hills Unified School District, CA. – 1972
In an effort to serve several purposes with the same instrument, a questionnaire was designed so that respondents could indicate their requirements for information concerning schools, to rank goals and objectives, and make determination as to which aspects of a child's development were primarily a home responsibility and which aspects were the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Attitudes, Community Needs, Educational Legislation
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1972
The voucher plan--a proposal to give parents the right and the financial means in the form of a voucher to send their child to the public, private, or parochial school of their choice--was developed as a "model" and, necessarily, without great sensitivity to differences among local school districts. The San Francisco Unified School…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Educational Experiments, Educational Improvement, Educational Vouchers
Goodis, Tracy Ann; Espenshade, Thomas J. – 1986
In 1980, 25% of the 14 million foreign-born persons in the United States were in California; 1.7 million of these were in Los Angeles County. Half of the 2.1 million undocumented immigrants counted in the 1980 United States Census lived in California, and about 75% of these were of Mexican origin. Results of a 1983 Urban Institute poll revealed…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Foreign Nationals