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Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1988
The California State Department of Education collects racial and ethnic data on public school staff and students in California in October of each year through the California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS). This report presents a summary of the data for the State and for each county. The following characteristics are noted: (1) of the 4.5…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Groups, Public Schools, Racial Distribution
Garcia, Jose Joel – 1986
California's population changes will present challenging public policy dilemmas concerning employment, income, political participation, education, and health services. This paper shares research results to be published in a book entitled "The Burden of Support: The Young Latino in an Aging Society," by David Hayes-Bautista, Jorge Chapa,…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)
Syron, Lisa – 1987
This study is a systematic investigation of female participation in mathematics and science classes in New York City schools. Six major findings reported include: (1) young women's low levels of participation in mathematics and science reflect the overall low levels of participation and reveal lack of attention to excellence in mathematics and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Females, Low Income Groups, Mathematics Achievement
Marlowe, John; Culler, Katharyn – Executive Educator, 1987
Describes an Albany (California) High School program addressing racial imbalances in remedial and advanced mathematics course enrollments. The Professional Development Program, used successfully at University of California, Berkeley, featured an integrated honors/group study approach easily adapted to a high school setting. Since 1983, black…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Higher Education, Honors Curriculum
Page, Douglas B. – 1988
A review of the literature on residential segregation reveals that Blacks remain the most segregated group in American cities, despite the more recent arrival of Hispanic and Asian groups. By one measure--the index of dissimilarity with respect to Whites--Blacks are 1.6 times more segregated than Hispanics, and twice as segregated as Asians. Race…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Differences, Group Dynamics
DBS Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1986
This 1984 survey was conducted to obtain data on the characteristics of public school students in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The 3,510 school districts selected to participate were statistically sampled from approximately 16,000 U.S. school districts, and the schools within the selected districts were subsampled: (1) all special…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Bilingual Education Programs, Corporal Punishment, Disabilities
Orfield, Gary; Monfort, Franklin – 1988
Dramatic changes in the size and racial composition of the nation's largest urban school districts are indicators of an increasingly multiracial and highly segregated society. Data were analyzed from the 1986-87 and 1984-85 Department of Education computer tapes containing the enrollments by race of 36,000 schools from 3,400 districts nationwide.…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Plans
