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Bailey, Thomas; Weininger, Elliot B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2002
Compared foreign-born and native minority community college entrants in terms of credits earned, the likelihood of transfer to a 4-year program and the probability of degree completion. Results for 26,575 students in the 1990 cohort and descriptive statistics for 25,173 students from 1997 show that nativity, race, and ethnicity were all related to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Degrees, College Graduates, College Students

Alba, Richard D.; And Others – International Migration Review, 1995
Investigates the racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods in the Greater New York metropolitan area in the 1970-90 period, when the region was a major receiving ground for immigrant groups. Increasing racial and ethnic composition of some neighborhoods is counterbalanced by greater numbers of all-minority neighborhoods. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Change, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Immigration
Leventhal, Tama; Fauth, Rebecca C.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Data from the Moving to Opportunity Program, a randomized mobility experiment in which a subset of low-income minority families living in public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were given vouchers to move to low-poverty neighborhoods, were used to evaluate 1 policy approach for improving children's educational outcomes. Four hundred…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Poverty, Low Income Groups, Minority Group Children
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Policy Analysis. – 1990
This report presents eight tables of data on the racial and ethnic distribution of enrollment at colleges and universities of the University of the State of New York for Fall 1990. An opening note indicates that the data were obtained from the 1990-91 Higher Education Data System Survey, "Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Status, Fall 1990."…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Ethnicity, Higher Education, Instructional Program Divisions
Wilcox, Susan; Lazarre-White, Khary; Warwin, Jason – Afterschool Matters, 2004
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol helps young people develop into critical thinkers who are committed to themselves and to community change. In single-gender chapters throughout New York City, primarily in Washington Heights and Harlem, teenagers learn to embrace and embody the ideals of brotherhood and sisterhood and to appreciate their connections to…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Youth Programs, Community Change, Social Change
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Higher Education. – 1977
This 1975-76 annual report on the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) in New York State summarizes the enrollment, funding, and activities of the institutions funded through HEOP. HEOP students continued to show that they were academically disadvantaged by their high school averages and SAT scores. Ninety-one percent of the newly admitted…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Educational Opportunities, Enrollment Rate
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Higher Education. – 1977
In the Higher Education Opportunity Program, which operated in 72 independent colleges and universities in New York State in 1976-77, enrollment figures showed that 6,227 students enrolled in full and part time courses during the year, with 4,948 attending four year schools and 846 at two year schools. Of the 6,227 enrollees 2,144 were freshmen.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Opportunities, Ethnic Groups, Financial Support
Jackson, Dorothy J.; Pitterle, Kenneth J. – 1978
A study was conducted to assess the feasibility of operating an internship program to increase the number of talented women and minority educational researchers and to encourage the pursuit of fresh educational research related to their special concerns. The study focused on women and minority junior faculty (assistant professors, lecturers, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Feasibility Studies
New York State Dept. of Civil Service, Albany, NY. – 1972
In an attempt to achieve equality in employment practices this annual report is presented as an ethnic survey of employees of the executive branch of New York State government. This report compares the data collected in late 1972 with that gathered in three of five previous years: 1967, 1970, and 1971, and tabulates and examines employee…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employees, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Ethnic Groups
Wilgus, Gay – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
Research literature suggests that adults from working-class minority backgrounds demonstrate authoritarian and coercive tendencies in their choices of disciplinary strategies when compared with adults from middle-class, "white", "Anglo", or "North American" backgrounds. However, in a recent study in New York City,…
Descriptors: Working Class, Discipline, Educational Practices, Preschool Teachers
Alford, Sue – Advocates for Youth, 2008
Until recently, teen pregnancy and birth rates had declined steadily in the United States in recent years. Despite these declines, the United States has the highest teen birth rate and one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among all industrialized nations. To help young people reduce their risk for pregnancy and STIs,…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Adolescents, Early Parenthood
Alford, Sue – Advocates for Youth, 2008
Until recently, teen pregnancy and birth rates had declined in the United States. Despite these declines, U.S. teen birth and sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates remain among the highest in the industrialized world. Given the need to focus limited prevention resources on effective programs, Advocates for Youth undertook exhaustive reviews…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Adolescents, Early Parenthood
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1983
This book is designed to assist school districts in career guidance planning for high school students in general and minority students and females in particular. It is also designed to encourage cooperation among educational institutions, business, and industry groups within New York State. Descriptions are provided of programs, internships,…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Planning, Fellowships, Females
State Univ. of New York, Albany. – 1986
The New York state educational system must change to reduce the devastatingly high dropout rate among Hispanic, Black and American Indian students. A dropout is defined as a student who has been dropped from a school's enrollment and who has not graduated from 12th grade nor been transferred to another school. Research into the causes of dropping…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Museums Collaborative, Inc., New York, NY. – 1976
A description of the Museums Collaborative Voucher Program, a system through which cultural institutions conduct programs with large, heterogeneous, adult populations in New York City is provided in this paper. The program began with two goals: to broaden the audience served by New York City's cultural institutions and to provide the institutions…
Descriptors: Adults, Art Activities, Community Organizations, Cultural Education