This brief reports on the first follow-up survey of the Coos Youth Study participants beyond high school. The focus of the Coos Youth Study, a ten-year panel study following the lives of youth in Coos County, New Hampshire, is the transition of Coos youth into adulthood. Author Eleanor Jaffee reports that approximately half of the Coos County…

Today, a national economy gone bust has derailed Black Americans' plans across the country. Gone are many of the economic gains, small as they were, achieved in the post-segregation era by millions of 1960s generation children and their children. Black America today is beset by job losses, business closures, pay cuts, furloughs, investment and…

Forces are at work tending to minimize the home-to-work distance; however, these forces favor white workers in Detroit more than members of the Negro labor force. Residential segregation is the major factor controlling the home-to-work distance minimization efforts of Negro workers. (RJ)

Consisting of a set of closely related studies of urban spatial structure, this monograph focuses on the decentralization of metropolitan areas. Foremost is the belief that decentralization, or suburbanization, lies at the root of most of the social problems that plague urban areas. Therefore, an understanding of the process is basic to policies…

Two graduate follow-up studies were analyzed for factors predicting likelihood that a graduate would stay in-state or migrate out-of-state. Slightly more than half of the bachelor's degree recipients from the class of 1993-1994 were included in the first sample, and responses were received from 522 graduates. In the second survey, 717 graduates…

Whether information technology (IT) graduates of Illinois colleges exit the state in greater percentages than do other graduates was studied using data from alumni surveys conducted by the public 4-year colleges and universities in Illinois. Data were added from a survey of 575 IT seniors in the 2000-2001 class. Survey data do suggest that IT…

An analysis of the socioeconomic profiles of blacks residing in the central cities and the urban fringes of 213 urbanized areas during 1960. Uses data from the 1960 U. S. Census of Population and Housing, 1/10,000 national sample. (JM)

In this paper significant demographic trends in the United States are described and anlyzed in relation to their implications for education. Focus is placed on six major trends. (1) The United States is moving toward zero population growth, and the long term prospect for school enrollment is for decline. (2) The age structure of the population is…

Georgia ranks fifth in the nation in the size of its black population, fourth in percentage of blacks, and fifth in number of black elected officials. The social and economic situation of black Georgians has generally improved over the last 20 years. This report provides statistics and charts which show that: (1) during the 1970s, for the first…

Based on 1970 U.S. Census data, this report notes that there were 500,000 persons employed during that year as artists who performed as actors, architects, authors, designers, musicians and composers, painters and sculptors, photographers, radio and television announcers, and in other arts-related fields. Part 1 provides a summary and analysis of…

Argues that the issue is not a matter of opening the suburbs to blacks or revitalizing their current central city locations, as both processes are required. Urban and suburban schools must be flexible enough to meet the needs of those who either stay in city or move to suburbs. (Author/AM)

A follow-up study of 73 former special school students in New South Wales, Australia, found that 42 percent were in open employment. Those with moderate or severe intellectual disabilities were generally at sheltered workshops, activity centers, or home. Approximately 54 percent lived with their parents, and 69 percent reported a few close…

In 1980 and 1989 the Greater Cincinnati Survey identified first- and second-generation urban Appalachians, finding that they comprised 20-25% of the population of Hamilton County (Ohio). As migration from Appalachia has slowed, this group has aged relative to the rest of the population. Compared to blacks and non-Appalachian whites, urban…

Analyzes the 394 articles published in the "Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice" between 1977 and 1991 in terms of the authors' gender, region of residence, and institutional affiliation. Reports that most of the 633 authors were male, employed at a research university, and from the south. (DMM)