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Orfield, Gary; Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2006
This report is about the changing patterns of segregation in American public schools through the 2003-2004 school year. It begins by examining the transformation of racial composition in the nation's schools, the dynamic patterns of segregation and desegregation of all racial groups in regions, states, and districts by using data from 1968 until…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Public Schools, School Demography, African American Students
Tushnet, Naida C. – 1991
This monograph introduces a conference addressing the educational issues of the edge cities of the urban Pacific Southwest. Edge cities on the outside of urban cores (edge cities) are currently facing many of the problems formerly experienced only in urban areas. Of the 30 fastest-growing cities of over 100,000 residents in the country, 19 are…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Demography, Educational Change, Educational Policy
We Can, Inc., Las Vegas, NV. – 1997
This Kids Count data book is the first to examine statewide indicators of the well being of Nevada's children. The statistical portrait is based on 15 indicators of child well being: (1) percent low birth-weight babies; (2) infant mortality rate; (3) percent of children in poverty; (4) percent of children in single-parent families; (5) percent of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child Health
Daneshvary, Rennae; Schwer, R. Keith; Cope, William; Klein, Freda; Potts, Robert – 2003
This Kids Count data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Nevada's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of childrens well-being in five areas: (1) health conditions and health care; (2) economic well-being; (3) education and achievement; (4) child and youth safety and welfare; and (5) juvenile justice. The data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Morton, Marlys; Schwer, R. Keith; Daneshvary, Rennae; Potts, Robert; Klein, Freda – 2001
This KIDS COUNT data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Nevada's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of children's well-being in five areas: (1) health conditions and health care; (2) economic well-being; (3) education and achievement; (4) child and youth safety and welfare; and (5) juvenile justice. The data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Daneshvary, Rennae; Schwer, R. Keith; Cope, William; Klein, Freda; Potts, Robert – 2002
This KIDS COUNT data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Nevada's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators of children's well-being in the areas of health conditions and health care; economic well-being; education and achievement; child and youth safety/welfare; and juvenile justice. The data book begins with an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse