Each year, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) releases a list of scientific advances that represent significant progress in the field. The "2017 Summary of Advances" provides short, plain language summaries of the top research breakthroughs selected by the IACC from a pool of research articles nominated by the members.…

During the past year, more than three dozen librarians working with teens in public, school, and college libraries have evaluated books published for the adult market with an eye toward identifying those that are worthy of teen reading as well. By examining more than 600 titles, this journal was able to select about 250 for review across the year.…

This document lists curated films in the subject area of race. It includes essays by experts in the field and additional resources. It is the fourth in a series of such publications by National Video Resources. Essays and bibliographies in this volume include: (1) "Race Matters, Media Matters" (Chon Noriega); (2) "Race, Video and Dialogue" (Howard…

Examines the relationship between race and crime as reflected in the literature and evaluates explanations based upon these findings. Self-report research fails to demonstrate a relationship between race and crime. Amounts of Black involvement explained by selection bias based on racial characteristics, however, are not consistently supported by…

The items contained in this bibliography were selected to give educators a new perspective for teaching about women's experiences, a perspective that takes into account the differences between the experiences of black and white women. The bibliography is divided into four sections. The non-fiction section features 100 books and research…

An exhaustive analytic review of large bodies of research indicates that rates of premarital intercourse among teenagers have risen sharply since 1966. This is particularly true for white females, for whom the rate is probably about three times that of the 1920's thru the mid-1960's; for white males the rate seems to have risen about 50%. By age…

This bibliography serves as a guide to the literature on urban and minority education that is accessible through the ERIC system. It brings together significant works on such topics as school integration, bilingual education, education of specific racial and ethnic groups, and problems of inner city schools, which were cited in the May through…

This annotated bibliography on black separatism presents a listing of historical and contemporary writings, including scholarly, journalistic, protest, and polemical documents. It consists of two major sections: Part One pertains to the separatism-integration controversy. It is divided into two chapters, one dealing with historical perspectives…

This is an annotated bibliography which cites the most important works on the legal, political, social, and economic background of desegregation. It also lists those works specifically pertaining to efforts at school desegregation in the city of Boston. The citations dealing with Boston include material on the racial imbalance legislation,…

Examined the view that White examiners impair the intelligence-test performance of Black children. Research literature clearly refutes the existence of race-of-examiner effects and indicates Black children's performance is not enhanced by examinations in Black dialect. Reasons for the persistence of the race-of-examiner myth are discussed. (Author)

This bibliography presents descriptive annotations of articles and books concerned with various aspects of the racial attitudes of blacks and whites in the United States. The works cited contain information about the racial attitudes of blacks and whites toward each other and toward their own group, some of the factors associated with racial…

In order to provide access to widely scattered literature, this review surveyed studies of occupational and educational aspirations and expectations for U.S. subjects from preschool through grade 12 and selected studies of older subjects. The review consists of two sections: (a) a text integrating relevant data, and (b) an annotated bibliography…

This report presents a statistical portrait of the changing role of women in the United States during the 20th century. Data are from United States Government sources--from surveys, decennial censuses, vital statistics, and administrative records. The majority of the statistics have been published previously, either in government documents or…

This selective review of literature related to school dropouts looks at the issue of high school dropouts, emphasizing the disproportionate number of black female dropouts. Several examples illustrate that the reasons given for dropping out vary greatly depending upon the source and that reasons given by dropouts and their parents are at variance…

This abstract bibliography lists selected resources for addressing race and ethnicity issues with adolescents who have chronic illnesses and disabilities. References are dated from 1980 to 1991. First, 18 references provide general information about the issues of cultural competence and cultural diversity for health care professionals, educators,…