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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1991
This report is part one of three volumes to be published by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in response to the request of members of Congress to review the physical, emotional, and behavioral health status of contemporary U.S. adolescents, including adolescents in groups who might be more likely to be in special need of health-related…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Federal Legislation

Aaron, Robert L.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1980
Reports that the Estes Attitude Scale suffers from the influence of cultural biases that make it inadequate to measure attitude about reading among low-income, Black students in grades three through seven in the rural southern United States. (FL)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques
Parks, Gail Armstrong – 1980
Despite the current attention directed at rural education, rural minority youth may be in some danger of becoming invisible. A lack of specific and detailed knowledge of minority conditions and potential opportunities at regional, sub-regional, state, and local levels has inhibited the development of sound programs and policies for the redress of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Differences, Disadvantaged, Educational Policy