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Conway, Maureen; Bear, Marshall – 2000
Asian Neighborhood Design (AND) was established by a group of student architects in 1973 to rehabilitate houses and revitalize community spaces in the crowded neighborhoods of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite its growth and development in response to changes in economic conditions, the policy environment, and its own clientele, AND has retained…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Asian Americans, Building Trades
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2007
This "Report Card to the Public, a Summary of Statistics from Alaska's Schools," is published in accordance with Alaska Statute 14.03.120 for the school year 2006-2007. This publication reports the status of public education in Alaska. It is a source of information for Alaska's educational policymakers, including legislators, the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, College Admission, Public Education, Educational Policy
Shaw, Thomas; And Others – 1994
Excerpts from interviews with 30 Asian high school students concerning their acculturation to the American classroom are presented and discussed. The students had been in the United States for no more than 2 years, and were here for a variety of reasons, including extended visits with relatives to temporary appointments of their parents to U.S.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
NABE News, 1996
Volume 19 of the newsletter of the National Association for Bilingual Education, which spans the period from September 1995 to August 1996, contains a variety of articles on issues and developments in bilingual education policy and programs, including: two way bilingual education; language information from the 1990 Census; cultural influence and…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans
Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association, Rockville, MD. – 1997
The papers from this conference are presented in three parts. Part 1 includes the panel sessions. Section 1 of part 1, "Trends, Policies, and Resources in Education," includes the following papers: "Continuing Higher Education and the Asian-American Perspective" (L.L. Hsu); "New Directions for Education: Minister Jin Wu's…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Child Health, Children
Guthrie, Larry F.; And Others – 1983
The Significant Bilingual Instructional Features (SBIF) study identified, described, and verified features of bilingual instruction of a wide variety of limited English proficient (LEP) students. It collected data on instructional organization, time allocation, classroom language use, active teaching behaviors, academic learning time, student…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
Highsmith, Martha C. – 1988
The numbers of degrees conferred in Connecticut in 1986-87 are reported and discussed by level of degree and discipline. Data on trends and information for use in policymaking are also provided. Highlights include: (1) in 1986-87, 26,663 degrees were awarded by Connecticut's colleges and universities, a decline of 2.8% from the previous year at…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indians, Asian Americans
DBS Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1984
The "Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey" machine-readable data file (MRDF) contains data on the characteristics of student populations enrolled in public schools throughout the United States. The emphasis is on data by race/ethnicity and sex in the following areas: stereotyping in courses, special education, vocational education,…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans
Hixson, Bruce, Ed. – General College Newsletter, 1982
Programs and projects receiving outside financial support at the General College, University of Minnesota, are described in several articles. In "Balancing Career Preparations and Liberal Learning: A Project Funded by the Northwest Area Foundation," Roger Larson describes the extension of General College courses and programs into the…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Asian Americans
National Center for Education Statistics Bulletin, 1982
Men dominated the teaching positions in five of nine vocational program areas during 1979-80: industrial-arts (96.6 percent of full time positions), agriculture (93.5 percent), technical (92.8 percent), trade and industrial (91.4 percent), and distribution (69.5 percent) according to a survey of 282,292 full time instructional staff analyzed…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, American Indians, Asian Americans
Weinberg, Meyer, Comp. – 1981
This bibliographic guide to the literature on equal education throughout the world contains over 40,000 references. It is arranged in 22 subject categories: the education of minorities in the United States (in general and by minority group); schooling issues (staffing and organization and multicultural education); economic, social, political and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Bibliographies, Blacks
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Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1980
Fall 1979, "end-of-registration" enrollment data were gathered for the 51 Illinois public community colleges and compared with data from earlier years. Selected findings indicate that while headcount enrollment increased from 322,267 in Fall 1978 to 323,653 in Fall 1979 (+0.4%), full-time equivalent enrollments decreased from 143,234 to…
Descriptors: Age, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students
Axtell, Dayton; Coad, Alison – 1979
An in-class survey of a representative sample of 298 students was conducted by Merritt College in March 1979 to determine: (1) the approximate number of students who were considering withdrawal from college; (2) the approximate number who had given withdrawal serious consideration in the past; and (3) the factors which students felt were decisive…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Age, American Indians, Asian Americans
Trusty, Jerry – Center for School Counseling Outcome Research (NJ1), 2004
Using data from a national study spanning 12 years, I examined the effects of several middle-school and high-school variables on completion versus non-completion of the bachelor's degree. All young people in the study had attended college with the purpose of attaining the bachelor's. Several variables had practically significant effects on degree…
Descriptors: Student Development, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Experience
Nieli, Russell – Online Submission, 2004
In the eyes of much of the academic establishment, William Bowen and Derek Bok's "The Shape of the River" is the definitive defense of affirmative action. Released in 1998, this book, which was also sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, claimed that racial preferences at America's elite universities were crucial to the growth and maintenance of a…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Affirmative Action, Selective Admission, College Admission
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