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Download full textPonessa, Joan M. – Public Affairs Focus, 1991
The numbers of students receiving a high school diploma in New Jersey and differences in graduation rates for males and females and for minority and non-minority students are examined. Conclusions are based on graduation totals reported by the school districts. In the country as a whole, 71% of all students receive a high school diploma by age 18…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Enrollment
Bates, Percy; And Others – Equity Coalition for Race, Gender, and National Origin, 1992
On the surface, educational tracking may seem like a useful tool for allowing students to work at their own pace, and to avoid discouraging competition, but abuses of the tracking idea have arisen through biased placement practices that have denied equal access to education for minority students. The articles in this issue explore a number of…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Access to Education, Cooperative Learning, Court Litigation
Current Population Reports, 1988
This report presents social and economic characteristics of the population below the poverty level in 1986 based on the March 1987 Current Population Survey. Among the highlights are the following: (1) the number of persons below the poverty level was 32.4 million; (2) the poverty rate was 13.6 percent; (3) Whites represented 69 percent of the…
Descriptors: Age, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
