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Download full textIngersoll, Gary M. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between reading achievement and a set of social and individual variables through the use of a critical path analysis. Data, taken from Cycle II of the National Health Examination Survey, included statistics on a national sample of 7,119 children, ages six through eleven years. Four…
Descriptors: Age, Critical Path Method, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Congressional Budget Office. – 1978
Various aspects of tax allowances for the expenses of higher education, and alternative subsidies are analyzed. A tax allowance for education is presented as one way to give more financial relief to middle-income families. The current distribution of student aid among income groups is discussed and data on college enrollment rates, family incomes,…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment Rate, Family Income, Federal Aid
Giele, Janet Zollinger – 1980
The problem of discrimination against families within the context of changing sex roles and the growing diversity of family structure is discussed in this paper. It begins with an analysis of underlying social trends, then focuses on sex discrimination and discrimination against different family types and concludes with an interpretation of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Employed Women, Family Income, Family Life
Edwards, Carolyn S. – 1981
This guide describes estimates of the cost of raising a child made by the Family Economics Research Group of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The guide starts with a description of what estimates are available, giving short profiles of the cost of raising urban, rural nonfarm, and rural farm children. The next section defines…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Cost Estimates
Goldberg, Zandra S.; Spartz, James L. – 1978
Three longitudinal studies of student achievement test data were conducted to examine the extent to which the variation in student achievement can be explained by differences in student background (including socioeconomic and prior achievement data) and school resources. This model assumes that achievement test performance may be predicted by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Resources, Elementary Education, Expenditures
Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Morgan, James N., Ed. – 1977
This volume contains analyses of data from the first eight waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The first part of this volume attempts to evaluate the relative importance of family composition changes, labor force participation decisions, and changes in earnings for the black and white families studied. The second part deals with a variety…
Descriptors: Blacks, Day Care, Economic Change, Economic Progress
BAIRD, LEONARD L. – 1967
A COMPARATIVE SOCIOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF 18,378 PROSPECTIVE COLLEGE STUDENTS (10,073 MEN AND 8305 WOMEN) TABULATES PERCENTAGES FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT FAMILY INCOMES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, FARM OR RURAL HOMES, MARITAL OR DATING STATUS, COLLEGE GOALS, REASONS FOR COLLEGE CHOICE, EXPECTATIONS CONCERNING COLLEGE,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Students, Educational Objectives
PDF pending restorationCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1979
The text is of a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor in which House Concurrent Resolution 84 was discussed. The resolution called for disapproval of regulation pertaining to family contribution schedule for use during 1979-1980 award period under the Basic Educational Opportunity…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Eligibility
Kornfeld, Leo L. – 1977
This statement by the deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Student Financial Assistance of the Office of Education discusses the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program and proposed changes in the Family Contribution Schedules for the 1978-79 academic year. Progress of the BEOG program during its four years of operation is reviewed, and tables…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Bound Students, Confidential Records, Family Financial Resources
Frank, Mary, Ed. – Children in Contemporary Society, 1979
This collection of seven abridged symposium papers discusses contemporary social conditions which affect the nuclear family and suggests directions for intervention. The introduction declares that the family remains the single most important unit in civilized society. Its destruction is seen to be the destruction of society as we know it. The…
Descriptors: Authors, Church Programs, Economic Factors, Family Characteristics
STEEVES, ROY W. – 1967
THE FIRST PART OF THIS PROGRESS REPORT ON FEDERALLY FUNDED ADULT BASIC EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA INDICATES PROGRAM OBJECTIVES, COMPONENTS, AND APPROPRIATIONS. NEXT, PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS DATA ARE TABULATED ACCORDING TO CUMULATIVE AND ACTIVE ENROLLMENTS, DROPOUTS, AND COMPLETERS, PARTICIPANT CHARACTERISTICS (SEX, AGE, ETHNIC GROUPS, EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Age Groups, Cost Effectiveness
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1967
States are ranked on 117 items of data that may be used to understand, explain, interpret, and evaluate various aspects of State school systems. The general categories of the listings are (1) population, (2) enrollment and attendance, (3) teachers, (4) educational attainment, (5) financial resources, (6) governmental and school revenues, (7)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The passage of S. 2539, the College Opportunity Act of 1978, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the basic educational opportunity grants program, is recommended in this Senate report from Senator Claiborne Pell. The bill provides for: (1) a rate no higher than 10.5 percent in determining a family's expected contributions from…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Legislation, Family Income, Federal Aid
Pierog, John J. – 1976
The assumptions underlying the student financial need analysis performed by York College of Pennsylvania, and by the majority of post-secondary institutions nationwide, are that parents have a moral obligation to assist their children in obtaining an education and that they should do so to the degree they are able. This study was designed to…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Students, Family Income, Financial Needs
Bachrach, Leona L. – 1974
Characteristics which distinguished patients at federally funded rural community mental health centers in 1971 from those at part rural and non-rural centers were explored. Variables examined were: demographic composition (age, color, and sex), socioeconomic characteristics (annual family income, educational attainment, and marital status),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Family Income
