The focus of this project was to study the backgrounds of 24 upwardly mobile blacks and an equal number of underachieving blacks to determine whether collective experiences in either group contained a certain pattern which differed from the experiences of the white society. The results of the study were analyzed and used as part of the discussion…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are the results of reading tests, the aims of bilingual education, a report on a slide series related to life in the St. John Valley, and many photographs of activities at Project Brave. The text is in English and…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are information concerning the summer materials development team, an article on the future of language institutes, and many photographs of activities at Project Brave. (SK)

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are the second part of an article concerning cultural life in the St. John Valley; a report of the visit of Dr. Wallace Lambert, bilingual specialist, to the project; news of an inservice course for teachers; and…

Labor market projections for the next six years have implications for education that can best be met by a career development program which runs from nursery school beyond high school, with a different emphasis at each level. A total program must be provided, recognizing individual differences and needs and put into practice by educators who are…

At the beginning of the academic year 1972-73 the graduate physics student population was 11,804. The 173 doctorate granting institutions and the 137 master's granting institutions reported enrollments of 10,227 and 1,577 graduate physics students, respectively. The data for this Graduate Student Survey comes from individual graduate students…

At an institute at the University of Oklahoma, some 85 people from Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma discussed ways to improve cross-cultural and user developed library services to all types of disadvantaged persons. The participants were librarians and representatives of the minorities, the culturally different, and the poor.…

Cable television has tremendous potential for human, social, and community development, but this cannot be achieved without planning, in which the needs of the community must be paramount. Both the politics of education and the quality of the educational process must be considered before suggesting futures for cable technology. A significant…

A national survey of minority student admissions was conducted for the fifth consecutive year. In addition to previous questions, the 14 schools with the greatest increase in new black freshmen over a 4-year period were compared with the 13 schools showing the greatest enrollment decrease on items relating to their methods and programs. Results…

This document presents the report of the Commission on Student Life at the University of Southern California (USC). Following a rationale for the study, chapters cover academic environment and student development; university life, programs, and activities; university residential life; university policy; university chaplain and campus ministry;…

Although this report focuses on coordinated counseling in the traditionally black colleges, the material is equally significant for all institutions interested in relating student personnel services to the needs of the "new student" and of the minority student in particular. Emphasis is placed on the need for coordinated counseling,…

Equality of opportunity, a very important component of the career education rationale, mandates that career education must apply uniformly to all. Many startling changes must be made in our educational, social, and economic systems; and career education is the central instrument for the voluntary renewal of education. The counselor's role in this…

This thorough review of the literature highlights six recurrent themes: (1) Women, minority students, and students from low income families have not obtained occupational information and assistance in relating their abilities and interests to career options and skills training programs. (2) Placement services within the school improve school…

This research examined educational inequalities for Mexican Americans in the Southwest. A questionnaire survey was conducted in 1972 on a sample of 636 superintendents in the public school systems in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. The study was designed as a follow-up to a 1969 Civil Rights Commission survey of 538…

In reaction to objections from various minority groups in Minnesota regarding the way they were portrayed and treated in the public schools, the state adopted Education 521, the Human Relations Component, in all programs leading to either initial certification or recertification in education. It was the task of this study to determine the effects…