Background: The prevalence of obesity among high school students has risen in recent decades. Many high school students report trying to lose weight and some engage in disordered eating to do so. The obesity proneness model suggests that parents may influence their offspring's development of disordered eating. This study examined the viability of…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical comparison of two measures of school success -- a value-added assessment system and the federally-mandated system of adequate yearly progress (AYP) -- to identify highly effective urban schools in the USA and to explore the predictive relationship between evidence-based decision-making…

The aging of the population is one of the major influences on the environment in which vocational education operates. The number of people 65 and older will increase more slowly in next 25 years than in the past. Improvements in working conditions, health care, and pension plans since World War II have made those who will be 65 by the end of the…

Analysis of demographic trends suggests that, despite a recent rise in numbers of births, total school enrollment in North Carolina may continue to decline into the 1990s. (Author/MLF)

Presents a comparison of human population and pathologic models. Builds support for a hypothesis that the human population is a planetary cancer by establishing the following: (1) features of human populations; (2) characteristics of human populations and other biological communities; (3) models of pathologic processes; and (4) malignant…

THE METHODOLOGY USED TO DETERMINE THE DROPOUT RATES FOR DYNAMOD II, A COMPUTERIZED MARKOV-CHAIN MODEL OF STUDENT AND TEACHER FLOWS OVER TIME, IS PRESENTED IN FIVE STEPS--(1) CALCULATING A DROPOUT RATE FOR MALE AND FEMALE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AND FOR MALE AND FEMALE SECONDARY STUDENTS, (2) CALCULATING AN OVERALL RATE FOR MALES AND AN OVERALL RATE…

Findings regarding minority officer procurement in the Armed Forces are analyzed in terms of concepts and standards regarding minority officer representation and of methods for achieving minority representation goals. Chapter 1, Concepts and Standards of Representation, discusses sociopolitical and socioeconomic criteria subdivided through the use…

This publication discusses the difficulties of calculating reliable income estimates for particular groups of people and presents a methodology for overcoming those obstacles. Basically, the procedure involves setting up cumulative distributions of housing values, rental values, and family incomes for each census tract. Average housing values and…

Preceding the body of the report, a brief review of the literature is provided to acquaint the reader with similarities and differences between national and local trends regarding the demographic characteristics of the physician population. The goal of the statewide residency study was to develop a strategy for the design and allocation of…

This paper reports work that studied past and future demographic trends and their impact on education in Florida, and presents a model for studying variables affecting enrollment. Numerous tables and graphs are included. (Author/IRT)

The overall objective of this 4-phase study was to provide the Four Corners Regional Commission with an evaluation of industries best suited for the region. In order to satisfy this objective, 100 industries and products were identified which have the highest potential for development in the total region, as well as in specific subregions. The…

Based on an institutional-contingency view, this study focuses on ways in which public and private school sectors in six San Francisco area counties embody different organizational logistics and authority principles, including rational-legal, traditional, and local-market. Results suggest that, among other characteristics, nonreligious private…

This telephone survey to determine the ethnic composition of the East Detroit school district was done by a team of teachers as part of a teacher workshop training program. As part of the same teacher workshop, another team of teachers wrote an historical sketch of East Detroit, describing its population growth, economic development, and…

The extent to which Army enlistments represent a cross-section of the national male population was determined in this study of available Army enlistee data. Quantitative data from several existing sources are used, including the National Longitudinal Study (NLS) and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Focus of the analysis is on the…

The purpose of the study described here was to identify indices of state efforts to promote equal opportunity in higher education that might have influenced state appropriations. In addition, an attempt was made to discover common economic and demographic characteristics of the 50 states that appear to influence state egalitarian efforts. The…