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College Board, 2014
This report provides educators and policymakers with information they can use to celebrate their successes, understand their unique challenges, and set meaningful goals to increase opportunity for all students. It is important to note that while APĀ® Exams are valid measures of students' content mastery of college-level studies in specific academic…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, African American Students, American Indian Students, Asian American Students
Alabama State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. – 1979
This report examines employment opportunities for women and minorities in the Alabama State government. The employment actions of State officials in the wake of the United States versus Frazer decision in which the State was found guilty of discrimination against blacks are also examined. Comments made by George C. Wallace and other State…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Court Litigation, Employment Opportunities
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Kraska, Marie; Zinner, Bertram; Abebe, Asheber – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2007
A non-experimental design was used to investigate the relationship of the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) scores to employment status. Groups were comprised of individuals with disabilities who were either employed or not employed immediately following their taking of the TABE and being released from a testing and employment services center…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Physical Disabilities, Adult Basic Education, Gender Differences
Zippert, John – 1977
The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway (TTW), connecting the Port of Mobile, Alabama with Appalachia and mid-America, is the largest public works project now under construction in the U.S. Investigating the potential TTW impact on poor, rural, and black populations in the impact area, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives initiated a study in 1970…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Career Development, Community Education
Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA. – 1995
This report examines efforts by 12 formerly segregated states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) to desegregate their higher education systems and increase educational opportunities for black and other minority students. It found that none of the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Blacks, College Desegregation, College Segregation
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
The relationship between educational background and mobility into the executive ranks of state government was examined in a questionnaire survey of 839 state executives at the assistant division chief level and above. This study is part of a large study of the background characteristics of executives from South Carolina, Mississippi, North…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Bachelors Degrees, Career Ladders