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Pearson, 2020
This survey was conducted on behalf of Pearson from June 8-14, 2020 by The Harris Poll, a global market research firm based in New York City with over 50 years of history in polling. This 20-minute online survey was completed by 7,038 people aged between 16-70 years old across the globe. All data in this report show general online population data…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Fry, Richard – Pew Research Center, 2016
Broad demographic shifts in marital status, educational attainment and employment have transformed the way young adults in the U.S. are living. This Pew Research Center analysis of census data highlights the implications of these changes for the most basic element of their lives -- where they call home. In 2014, for the first time in more than 130…
Descriptors: Place of Residence, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Adults
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Williams, Luther S. – Negro Educational Review, 1981
Presents data on the numbers of minority group holders of doctoral degrees. Emphasizes the need to train more Blacks and minority group individuals in scientific and technological fields in order to prepare them for effective participation in an industrialized, rapidly changing, technological society. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Doctoral Degrees, Engineering
Lipsitt, Lewis P., Ed. – 1994
This document is an edited transcript of the addresses given at a symposium on violence at Brown University. The "Foreword" (Lewis P. Lipsitt) calls for better methodologies or "path analyses" to show the courses of development that conduce to criminal careers, family destruction, and community insouciance. Keynote speeches…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Psychology
Tickamyer, Ann R.; Tickamyer, Cecil – 1987
This report examines the causes and effects of Appalachian poverty, focusing on education, unemployment, social services, and economic development. The data in the report were extracted from the 1980 U.S. Census. Although there has been a steady decline in Appalachian poverty rates since the landmark 1964 declaration of a War on Poverty,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Change Strategies, Demography, Disadvantaged Environment
Crow Impact Study Office, MT. – 1977
Crow people want their resource decisions to benefit and strengthen the tribe socially and economically and to minimize damage to the tribal way of life, culture, and reservation environment. Based on a survey of 1016 reservation and non-reservation Crow families, conducted as part of a study of the impact of resource development on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Kralovec, Etta; Buell, John – 2000
Arguing that the burden of homework causes significant family stress--including parent-child conflict, reduced family leisure time, and overly tired children--this book questions whether the benefits of homework are worth its costs. The book examines the historical progression of homework and the influence of international competition on the trend…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Educational Attitudes