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Adams, Howard G. – 1986
A one-day invitational forum was convened to gain some insight into factors that continue to impede the identification, recruitment, admission, retention and graduation of minority students in graduate education. The objectives of the forum were to review the current status and to formulate recommendations on this subject. Following a summary of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Black Students, College Administration
Adams, Howard G. – 1988
Two trends will impact the academic labor force through the rest of this century: approximately half of the existing professorial positions are held by persons within 15 years of retirement, and demographic projections are that by the year 2000, ethnic minority groups will constitute 30% of the national population. Underrepresented minority…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, American Indians, Black Students
Cavatta, Jerry C. – 1987
Las Cruces Public Schools (Dona Ana County, New Mexico) is the second largest school district in New Mexico serving 6% of the state's public school students. Enrollment, declining in the late 1970s to a 1980-81 low of 15,349 students, has increased steadily through the 1986-87 school year, when 17,207 students were enrolled, primarily in grades…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education
Garcia-Ayvens, Francisco, Comp. – 1987
Designed to assist libraries and other agencies in their efforts to provide current referral services to local groups and agencies serving minority populations, this directory reflects the diverse nature of Orange County's population and identifies resources to help support their basic needs. Limited to the four largest minority groups (Asian…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Broderius, Bruce W.; And Others – 1985
The effectiveness of an instructional improvement project in the Greeley-Evans Schools, Colorado, was studied. Teachers were provided inservice education in a class called the Essentials of Instruction. Recognizing that receiving training was not the same as being an implementer of the innovation, the Levels of Use instrument identified teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5
Cole, Lorraine – 1987
In the last decade there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of minorities recruited and retained in graduate professional education programs for human communication sciences and disorders and in the number of minority members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). A number of causes have contributed to the decline,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Asian Americans, Blacks
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1985
This document evaluates the Bilingual Program in the Auxiliary Services for High Schools program, which provides instruction in English as a second language, native language development, basic education, and job counseling and placement services to approximately 1,900 students at 15 sites in New York City. The program was developed in 1969 to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Guidance
Myers, Michael M. – 1982
Trends in overall college enrollments and in Black and Hispanic enrollments in the nation and in the South in 1980 are examined, based on data from National Center for Education Statistics' surveys. Attention is also directed to enrollment by type of institution, enrollment in selected fields, enrollment trends during 1976-1980, enrollment in…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Trends
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the influence of black nonstandard English on how a person is perceived, (2) Navajo language maintenance and shift, (3) the relationship of the syntactical…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Education Improvement Center. – 1981
To assist state policy makers, six papers and five brief reactions discuss the elementary and secondary educational needs and expectations of six minority groups: blacks, Mexican Americans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians and Native Alaskans, and Asians and Pacific Islanders. An introductory summary notes that the educational needs usually…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Shore, Rima, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The Competency Based Bilingual/Bicultural Project at Eastern District High School in New York City is an integrated bilingual demonstration project designed to develop English and native language skills as well as instill positive self concepts among high school students with Spanish-speaking backgrounds. In 1980-1981, the program provided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Demonstration Programs
Shore, Rima, Ed.; And Others – 1981
Project E.T.B.B.S., a bilingual education program designed to accelerate the transition to English usage among Spanish-speaking high school students of limited English proficiency, is described in this report. As implemented in 1980-81, the project provided instruction in English as a second language, native language instruction, bilingual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Business Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
Auxiliary Services for High Schools in New York City offers an extension bilingual education program for active or potential dropouts, adults returning to school, immigrants, and others who cannot attend regular high school classes in New York City. The program provides individualized instruction, counseling and job placement services, bilingual…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Counseling, Chinese Americans
Hispanic Policy Development Project, Inc., New York, NY. – 1984
This is the second volume of the report of the National Commission on Secondary Schooling for Hispanics. There are three main sections. The first contains a comparative, demographic analysis of the United States Hispanic population, the total United States population, and the White and Black populations. It documents the relative size and growth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Data Collection, Dropouts
Duncan, Sharon E. – 1983
A study of the pronunciation problems of language-minority children had as subjects 578 first, third, and fifth-graders from seven ethnolinguistic groups (urban and rural Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Franco-Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese-Americans) from low to low-middle income communities in California, Texas,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Chinese Americans, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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