Over the past year, the COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted the critical role that health professionals play in our society. This report looks closely at ADT [Associate Degree for Transfer] awards in health fields and discusses practices and challenges relayed by administrators at campuses with high rates of ADT conferral and acceptance in…

This article combines interview data from a group of boys of color at an urban single-sex school and content analysis of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to demonstrate the complexities of readers' responses to literature. Textual relevance, or the ability to construct personal…

This study used data collected from Los Angeles County, California, authorities and the U.S. Census to test the hypothesis that minority youth are disproportionately transferred to adult court and sentenced to incarceration when compared to white youths in similar circumstances. The research examined arrests between 1996-98 and sentencings between…

As part of an ongoing assessment on adult literacy and the new technologies, this study profiled the similarities and differences among Appalachian and Californian adults with low literacy skills. Two teams of researchers each profiled six adults with low literacy skills. The study population was selected so as to reflect a diverse mix of ages,…

This document consists entirely of 132 tables which present statistics on the projected population size of 12 racial and ethnic groups in California: non-Hispanic Whites; Blacks; Hispanics; Chinese; Filipinos; Asian Indians; Japanese; Koreans; Southeast Asians; Vietnamese; Other Asians; and other groups. An accompanying report deals with these…

This report is a follow-up to another, Population Change and California's Future, which presented projections of the population of different ethnic racial groups in California up to the year 2030. Two sets of statistics are presented in this report. The first set extends projections from the year 2030 to the year 2080. It is projected that…

America's demography in the new century will be affected by the aging baby boom generation and by new immigrants. Focus on just the national implications of aging baby boomers and the new immigrants is inadequate. This policy brief takes a regional perspective, examining recent trends and population statistics and making the case that aging baby…

Telephone interviews of 2,854 southern Californians examined beliefs about causes of poverty: individual characteristics, labor market conditions, failure of schools, discrimination, or luck. Contrary to previous findings, structuralist explanations of poverty were rated higher overall than individualistic explanations, and blacks and Latinos…

This report focuses on political issues relating to California's major ethnic/racial minorities. Part 1 examines political attitudes and behaviors, with emphasis placed on comparisons between the heavily immigrant Latino and Asian communities and the largely native-born White and Black communities. Discussion and statistical data are provided on:…

Detailed interviews with immigrant students in the California school system indicate that the schools are not meeting the challenge of providing these students with an education adequate to prepare them to be productive members of American society. The first section presents demographic data and background information on immigrant children and…

Little has been done to understand how student demographics shape school employment practices. Using statistical data on Black, Hispanic, and Anglo teachers employed in California public schools, this study concludes that minority student growth rates, interacting with school segregation, are significant predictors of minority teacher employment…

Describes a unified, statewide effort to increase outreach activities targeted to ethnic minority families with a demented relative. Provides data demonstrating the effectiveness of these programs. (SNR)

Analysis of 4,132 child abuse cases reported to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department demonstrated significant differences attributed to ethnic group status, reflecting variations in family structure and childrearing attitudes. Anglo and Hispanic males and Black females were most frequent suspects. Proportion of physical abuse to sexual abuse…

This collection of tables includes data for the 1979-80 California school concerning: (1) enrollment by sex, by racial ethnic group, and by county; (2) enrollment by grade level and by racial ethnic group; (3) high school graduates by racial/ethnic group and by county; (4) district level staff by racial/ethnic group and by county (1979); and (5)…

In Los Angeles County, equal employment in the local government workforce has been defined as a black-white issue, and underrepresentation of Hispanics has been justified as stemming from the lack of an educated and qualified Hispanic labor pool. Contrary to this myth, numbers of high school and college graduates, 1979-92, were greater for…