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Queensland Dept. of Education, Brisbane (Australia). – 1983
The first national study of facilities for isolated Australian children living away from home was undertaken by the Commonwealth Schools Commission in 1981 and released in 1983. This document contains the conclusions, findings, and recommendations of the Commonwealth Schools Commission Working Party report. The results prompted the Commission to…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Categorical Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Facility Improvement
Grant, D. R. B. – 1974
This study, conducted by the Bernard Van Leer Foundation Project for Early Childhood Education (PECE), presents the results of a survey which was carried out to identify home deficits in socioeconomically disadvantaged children's preparation for schooling. The study was conducted in Jamaica during July, August, and September, 1970, and was…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Download full textGeorgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of School Administrative Services. – 1976
The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 as amended provides cash and food assistance to local school systems for breakfast programs to help them improve diets of young people. These guidelines for planning the school breakfast are intended to help food service directors, supervisors and managers plan breakfast menus that will provide 1/4 to 1/3 of the…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Child Welfare, Eating Habits, Food Standards
Zaslavskaia, Tatiana Ivanovna; And Others – 1976
The prediction, planning and management of the social development of a rural region presupposed typologization of its communities. This study aimed to: build an overall social typology of the rural communities in Siberia; elucidate the role of employment structure among other type-forming factors of social differentiation; build a special typology…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Community Change, Community Development
Royal Commission on Agriculture and Rural Life, Regina (Saskatchewan). – 1956
Various aspects of rural homes and families in the changing environment of rural Saskatchewan were examined in terms of "level of living" (how they live) and "standard of living" (how they would like to live). Housewives, homemaker clubs, and other interested groups were questioned concerning certain features of family living…
Descriptors: Clubs, Environmental Influences, Family Problems, Family Relationship
Cochrane, Susan Hill; And Others – 1990
The theory and evidence of the consequences of high fertility in Pakistan are reviewed in this paper. Several data sets are analyzed to examine the effects of the number of children on school participation and labor participation in urban Pakistan. Other data are utilized to examine the effects of children on savings in urban and rural areas.…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Opportunities
Prewitt Diaz, Joseph O.; And Others – 1989
This report re-examines previously gathered ethnographic data derived from approximately 3,000 hours of interviews with migrants across the United States to determine what factors associated with migration affect children's educational outcomes. The data suggest the existence of a "culture of migrancy," which is manifested in similar…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
Settles, Barbara H.; And Others – 1977
This report presents a method for measuring the cost of foster family care in local areas through use of governmental and other available data on costs relating to non-foster children. The cost measurement procedures used, for which 32 pages of tables and worksheet forms are provided, are designed to measure average costs in a particular area…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Databases
Azarkh, Emilia Davidovna; Korel, Liudmila Vasilyevna – 1976
Utilizing data derived from a questionnaire survey of the rural population of Novosibirsk province in the USSR, the following hypothesis was tested: the attitude of rural inhabitants toward urban and rural conditions is characterized by a considerable preponderance of positive evaluations of dominant rural conditions and transient urban conditions…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communications, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Tryfan, Barbara – 1976
In the Polish Peoples Republic, all citizens have become fully equalized in terms of political and social rights, but there are still both external and internal barriers to female emancipation, particularly in the country. While women, in general, find it difficult to juggle their increasing roles, women living in the country have additional…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Citizen Participation, Educational Opportunities, Family (Sociological Unit)
Revenga, Ana; Ringold, Dena; Tracy, William Martin – 2002
Roma, or "gypsies," are the main poverty risk group in many countries of central and eastern Europe. Living standards for the Roma have deteriorated more severely during the region's transition to a market economy than they have for other population groups, and Roma have been poorly positioned to take advantage of emerging economic and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education, Educational Attainment
Huddleston, Rich – 1999
This report examines the financial needs of Arkansas families, and establishes, using conservative economic assumptions, an annual Family Income Standard (FIS) for the state and each of its counties. The FIS is a new tool to be used by citizens, state and local policy makers, civic organizations, non-profits, and parents as they look to improve…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Status, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Financial Resources
Surlin, Stuart H.; Squire, Larry A. – 1987
A study examined the relationship between social and material values and attitudes toward television advertising. Using the Rokeach Value Survey Form E, 157 Canadian college students ranked the 18 terminal and 18 instrumental values in order of their importance as guiding principles for life. The values were classified as either material, social,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aesthetic Values, College Students, Cultural Influences
Emanuelsson, Ingemar; Svensson, Allan – 1985
This study investigated possible changes in verbal, spatial, and reasoning intelligence in Swedish 13-year-olds over a 20-year period. The first sample included about 12,000 students born in 1948. Data consisted of (1) information from school records, (2) information on personal background, (3) scores on three intelligence tests and three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cultural Influences, Curriculum
Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Morgan, James N., Ed. – 1975
This volume focuses on the main issues to which the Panel Study of Income Dynamics was directed--the determinants of the changing economic fortunes of black and white families. The economic status of the families studied, patterns of transition, and changes in the structure of the families and their relationship to changes in economic activity are…
Descriptors: Blacks, Consumer Economics, Day Care, Economic Change
