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Zane, Polly; Zane, John – 1978
Focusing on changing roles of American women in response to social, technological, and historical influences since 1607, the document describes women's participation in home life, sports, professions, business, the labor movement, social reform, and the fight for legal rights. The document comprises six chronologically organized booklets and a…
Descriptors: Activism, Behavior Patterns, Colonial History (United States), Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Schubert, Nancy A. – 1981
This guide is designed to help elementary teachers to incorporate career education into their classrooms. It contains background information about career education as well as suggested activities to use with the children. The guide is organized into five chapters. Each chapter contains information about career education topics, a summary, and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Little, Robert H.; And Others – 1979
The comments of six panelists are presented as transcribed at a workshop conducted by the National Association of Veterans Program Administrators in order to examine the special needs of Vietnam Era veterans. First, Robert Chapman discusses the employment, counseling, and information needs of disadvantaged veterans, including disabled veterans,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges
Eliason, Carol – 1979
Articles written by women educators and counselors are provided with accompanying resource information in this five-part monograph which focuses on the need for and the implementation of sex equity vocational counseling at community colleges. Part I examines the role the counselor can play in eliminating the effects of sex stereotyping on the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Counseling, Career Planning
Miller, Susan W., Comp. – 1980
This annotated bibliography provides a list of resources dealing with sex equity in vocational education. The bibliography first provides operational definitions of "sexism,""sex fair,""sex affirmative,""sex bias," and "affirmative action." It then lists resources under the following topics and/or bibliographic forms: (1) sex role definition, (2)…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Career Counseling
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1981
Developments concerning women in the workplace, the courts, and schools are reported. Among the issues related to employment are the following: female faculty members earn less in salary than males, despite receiving slightly higher raises than males; unemployment among women doctorates in the humanities is higher than that of males; age…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Affirmative Action, College Students, Court Litigation
Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1990
Data and narrative describe the ethnic/minority composition (Asian, Black, Hispanic, Indian, White, foreign) of the student population in Maryland higher education institutions in 1989 when Maryland had enrolled its most diverse student body to date, with the highest rate of enrollment growth for Hispanic and Asian American students. Although…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian American Students, Black Students, College Students
Rose, Nancy E. – 1995
This book traces the development of public assistance programs in the United States from the 1930s to the present. Throughout the book, the differences between workfare and fair work programs and the role of workfare programs in the growing impoverishment of women are emphasized. The following topics are examined: women, welfare, and government…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Education Work Relationship
Millett, Catherine M.; MacKenzie, Susan – 1996
This study examined, over a 3-year period, the ability of financial assistance for minority students to bridge the gap between generic higher education and the high-prestige, high-cost institutions that are associated with long-term economic benefits to graduates. Applying a variation of the status attainment model to data for the 1989-1990…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Black Students
Hough, David L. – 1994
The goals of this four-phased study were to enhance the quality of educational experience for under-represented (rural, low income, and female) secondary students (N=628), and to increase their participation in mathematics and science courses beginning at the middle school level. Teachers (N=28) were asked to expand their pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Core Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Females
Kerber, Linda K. – 1983
Intended for use in preservice teacher education programs, this unit provides an overview of the role that women have played as educators. The publication is designed to help future teachers become knowledgeable about issues of sexism and skilled in approaches to alleviating this problem in schools. The sections are chronological. Section 1,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Colonial History (United States), Educational Change
Belcher, Marcia J. – 1990
This enrollment summary provides collegewide and campus-specific student data for Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) for fall 1989. The following variables are considered: credit/non-credit enrollment status, semester credits generated, credit load, ethnicity, gender, degree types, full-/part-time status, age, native language, citizenship status,…
Descriptors: Age, Black Students, College Credits, Community Colleges
Baldwin, Anne – 1986
This enrollment summary provides collegewide and campus-specific data for Miami-Dade Community College (Florida) for 1981-82 through 1985-86. All data are for unduplicated headcounts by the three major variables of credit/non-credit enrollments, semester credits, and credit load. These major variables are matched against factors of ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Age, Black Students, College Credits, Community Colleges
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1983
The essays in this volume seek to elucidate the policies and processes whereby groups of students in 15 (mainly industrialized) countries are designated as special, and differential treatment is legitimated, organized, and financed. Essays and authors are as follows: "An Overview of Experience in Fifteen Countries" (W. Donovan, A.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Pluralism
Meyer, David P. – 1985
The issue of underemployment (a condition characterized by inadequate hours, inadequate income, and/or inadequate use of skills) is explored in this monograph. The methodology and vocabulary of underemployment are first examined, including a definition synthesis of hours worked, skill utilization, and compensation. The second section provides…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Laborers, Automation, Career Development
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