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1964
EDUCATIONAL DEPRIVATION AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS, PUERTO RICANS, AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS IS CONSIDERED. THE AVERAGE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF THE RESERVATION INDIAN IS FAR BELOW THAT OF THE WHITE AMERICAN. INDIANS OVER 25 YEARS OF AGE AVERAGE ABOUT HALF AS MANY YEARS OF SCHOOLING AS THE WHITE POPULATION OF THE SAME AGE. A HANDICAP WHICH AFFECTS INDIAN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Demography, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Fetterman, David M. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
This article presents a study of a program in Peoria, Illinois, for the gifted and talented that serves as a national test case for gifted education and minority enrollment. It was concluded that referral, identification, and selection were appropriate for the program model but that inequalities resulted from socioeconomic variables. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equal Education
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 2003
This report examines minority faculty and the representation of female faculty and faculty with disabilities. The report includes a close examination of the state's two fellowship programs for minority graduate students, the Illinois Minority Grant Incentive Program and the Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program. To address the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Educational Change, Educational Environment
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 2003
This annual report presents information on minority, female, and disabled students and staff in Illinois higher education. It seeks to explain and track recent changes in representation among these groups and highlights state and institutional efforts to improve representation. As part of a change in reporting format, this year's report is divided…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Annual Reports, Black Students, Enrollment
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Wilson, Philip G.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1991
This study of employment outcomes of 869 Illinois supported employees, primarily with mental retardation or mental illness, found that minority-status employees were younger, had higher intelligence quotients, and earned more wages per month than did nonminority supported employees. Few differences among minority subgroups (African American,…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Asian Americans, Blacks
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McKillip, Jack – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2001
A performance audit examined immediate, intermediate, and long-range effects of two minority graduate fellowship programs sponsored by the state of Illinois, the Illinois Minority Graduate Incentive Program (IMGIP) and the Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program (ICEOP). Findings show the diversification of minority doctoral study…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Equal Education, Graduate Students
Adams, J. Q., Ed.; Welsch, Janice R., Ed. – 1995
The 21 essays of this book discuss strategies for implementing multicultural education at the higher education level, especially in Illinois. Following a statement on multicultural education by former Senator Carol Moseley-Braun and an introduction by the text's editors (J. Q. Adams and Janice R. Welsch), the papers are: "Multicultural…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Diversity (Student)
Walls, Robert O. – 1978
This paper presents a view of school-community relations based on the concept of change. It is held that the school should develop and maintain a close relationship with the community if it is to recognize and provide for changing educational needs. The involvement of minority groups in education, a controversial issue, is necessary in order for…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Nelson, F. Howard – Illinois Schools Journal, 1983
Describes the debate in Illinois over proposed bilingual education policy changes. Analyzes these issues: the effectiveness of transitional bilingual education, the inclusion of a cultural component, language assessment, the overprescriptiveness of current Illinois law, the impact of extending services to all limited-English proficient students,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility
Presley, Jennifer B.; White, Bradford R.; Gong, Yuqin – Online Submission, 2005
In a previous Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) policy research report, The Distribution of Teacher Quality in Illinois (IERC 2005-1), we introduced the Illinois Teacher Quality Index (TQI). The TQI is a school-level indicator of teacher quality that describes a school's concentration of certain teacher attributes that research suggests…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Screening Tests, Teacher Qualifications
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Chapman, Thandeka K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2005
Much of the scholarship on urban children and families has focused on ways to increase the involvement of parents of colour in the education of their children. However, these suggestions for increasing parental involvement ignore the long tradition of activism in the courts as families have fought through the legal system for equal educational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Court Litigation, Activism, Parent Participation
Illinois Community College Board, 2006
The colleges in the Illinois Community College System submit detailed credit student records twice during each fiscal year. This year's report is based on fiscal year 2005 enrollments and completions. Comparative information is supplied from four previous fiscal years (2001-2004). Detailed tables comparing fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2005…
Descriptors: Student Records, Educational Needs, Noncredit Courses, Full Time Equivalency
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – 1990
Recent research has indicated that a learning setting's "psychological environment" can make a difference in student achievement and motivation. This has been found to be true in the case of smaller learning settings, such as the classroom. Recently, research on school culture has suggested that schools do indeed differ in the kind of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cultural Background, Educational Environment
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1988
A study was conducted to assess the impact of projected retirements among full-time faculty on the public community colleges of Illinois. Age data on fall 1987 faculty were analyzed by college, program area, discipline and subdiscipline, gender, race/ethnicity, tenure status, and highest degree earned. Study findings included the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Employment Projections
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Jackson, Barbara – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1978
Data from the Miskimins Self-Goal-Other Discrepancy Scale and the Personal Data Questionnaire, completed by business students in eight suburban Cook County, Illinois, high schools indicated that male and non-White respondents had weaker self-concepts than female and White respondents. As self-concept influences learning and behavior, further…
Descriptors: Business Education, Females, High School Students, Individual Development
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