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Download full textKobrin, Jennifer L.; Camara, Wayne J.; Milewski, Glenn B. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
This study examines the relative utility and predictive validity of the SAT I and SAT II for various subgroups in both California and the nation. The effect of eliminating the SAT I on the test impact and on the over- and under-prediction of various gender and racial/ethnic subgroups is examined. Two statistical adjustments and tables are appended.
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Research Reports, Evaluation Utilization, College Admission
Hoachlander, E. Gareth; Choy, Susan P. – 1982
To examine the fiscal implications of reorganizing the Los Angeles (California) Unified School District (LAUSD) into smaller, independent districts, researchers compared LAUSD revenues and expenditures with those of the balance of the state and analyzed differences in expenditures per student within LAUSD. This report on their evaluation is…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1983
Results of the fall 1981 Student Source Survey of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education are presented. The geographic locations of the public senior and junior colleges and private senior and junior colleges are shown with maps. Data are provided on: the relative participation of first-time entering (FTE) freshmen by county, FTE-freshmen as a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Transfer Students, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Students
Ducey, Sara Bachman; And Others – 1987
This study examined low birth weight and infant mortality in the 50 states and the 54 largest American cities between 1979 and 1984. Its findings confirm that progress in reducing low birth weight and infant mortality has slowed, and in some cases the progress has actually reversed. Some states and many cities had higher rates of low birth weight…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Blacks, Demography, Ethnic Groups
HELLER, BARBARA – 1966
A PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDED SUPERIOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS WAS EVALUATED. THE SPECIAL SERVICES WERE PROVIDED SO THAT THE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS EXODUS FROM THESE SCHOOLS, IN WHICH EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS MAY HAVE FALLEN, WOULD BE CURTAILED. AS PART OF THE PROGRAM, ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL WERE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attendance, Class Size, Counseling Services
BROADUS, JAMES; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE REQUEST FOR THIS INVESTIGATION BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION COMMISSION ON PROFESSIONAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES RESULTED FROM THE FIRING OF NINE NEGRO TEACHERS IN WILCOX COUNTY. THE STUDY ITSELF IS MORE INCLUSIVE, INCORPORATING THE FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS OF SEPARATE STUDIES IN POVERTY, SCHOOL FINANCE,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Boards of Education, Budgets
Allen, Irving L.; And Others – 1968
The first part of this research report presents the findings of a study of public opinion about community problems, particularly race relations and defacto school segregation, in the inner city areas of Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, and Waterbury, Connecticut. In the second part these four communities and Stamford are examined as systems of…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Leaders, Community Study, De Facto Segregation
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1961
The histories and anthropological origins of American Indian groups are presented via pictorial and narrative descriptions. Historical and cultural contributions of American Indians to present conditions in the Americas are detailed, concentrating primarily on those tribes affecting the history of the United States. (DK)
Descriptors: American History, American Indians, Ancient History, Art Expression
Pommerening, Glen E. – 1976
The development of the Equal Employment Opportunity Program (EEOP) of the Department of Justice, the problems that have been solved along the way, the obstacles which remain, and the actions that are being taken to achieve equal opportunity in employment throughout the department are described in this document. The Department's affirmative action…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Blacks, Employment Practices
Nelsen, Edward A.; Uhl, Norman P. – 1976
A questionnaire describing 87 environmental characteristics of schools is administered to entering freshmen at a predominantly black university to study the relationships of racial composition to various dimensions of school environment and social climate. Both racial and nonracial aspects of school environments are examined. Correlation of the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Environment, College Freshmen, Discipline Problems
Lee, Everett S.; Bouvier, Leon F. – 1973
"Growth and Future of Cities" and "The Nation's Minorities" are units eight and nine, respectively from the fourteen-units series Population Profiles. The former initiates its consideration of our urban future with two divergent points of view on population distribution. Those views are brought into perspective by an historical investigation of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Demography, Ethnic Studies, Futures (of Society)
Fields, Cheryl D. – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1998
Data from federal surveys on the distribution of Black and Hispanic faculty in research universities are presented, with some narration. Tables indicate the number and percentage of tenured, tenure-track, and combined faculty in each group at each research/doctoral institution for fall 1995, average salaries, and distribution of teaching,…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Full Time Faculty
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1984
Data concerning the places of residence of students who were enrolled in Maryland colleges during fall 1982 are presented, along with a brief narrative section. The information is intended primarily for use as a reference to study the enrollment patterns of the residents of the state's major political subdivisions at Maryland institutions. Of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Students
Philadelphia Public Schools, PA. – 1960
THE PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF PUBLIC EDUCATION REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF RACIAL BALANCE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS WELL AS ON THE SCHOOL SYSTEM'S PROGRESS TOWARD INTEGRATION. THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS, EMPLOYEE ASSIGNMENT POLICIES, AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND BUILDING CONDITIONS ARE DISCUSSED. ORGANIZED HUMAN RELATIONS EMPHASES WERE…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Human Relations Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Public Schools
Kuvlesky, William P., Ed.; Boykin, William C., Sr., Ed. – 1977
About 62.8 million of the total U.S. population live in the South; of these, about 10% live in the "rural" South. Young people (under 25 years of age) constitute almost half of the total population in the South--29.4 million. Over one-third of all southern people are under 18 years of age. The racial composition of the youth population…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Tests, Aspiration
