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Download full textDolzhikova, Anzhela V.; Moseikina, Marina N.; Vladimirsky, Irena – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Considering the fact that starting from January 1, 2015 the complex exam is introduced for the first time in the Russian Federation for the foreign citizens, who apply for obtaining the employment and residence permits, this article reveals the educational policy strategy on this category of foreigners. This policy is considered within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Foreign Students, Sociocultural Patterns
Abelson, Herbert I.; Atkinson, Ronald B. – 1975
This is a study of beliefs, attitudes, and behavior with regard to a wide range of legal and illegal drugs. Included are data about coffee, tea, tobacco, and illicit drugs such as marihuana and heroin. The report covers the current situation and highlights trends from two prior studies on drug abuse conducted for the National Commission on…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Drug Abuse, Marihuana
Peer reviewedNorton, Arthur J. – National Elementary Principal, 1979
Census Bureau statistics indicate that in 1978, 17 percent of all families were maintained by a woman with no husband present. Also, nearly 45 percent of today's children will at some point in their lives live in a one-parent family. (Author/LD)
Descriptors: Divorce, Employed Women, Females, National Surveys
von Zur-Muehlen, Max – Canadian Statistical Review, 1978
Information on Canadian social and economic trends is presented in this statistical review. Advance information on national income and expenditure accounts for the first quarter of 1978 is provided. Characteristics of full-time university teachers from 1956-57 to 1977-78 are detailed in tables that recount such developments as the nearly six-fold…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBachy, Victor – Journal of Communication, 1976
Reviews various Danish legislative actions leading up to the lifting of the ban on pornography, and discusses possible consequences of such liberalization by analyzing police statistics from a five year period. (MH)
Descriptors: Permissive Environment, Social Attitudes, Social Behavior, Social Influences
Hodgkinson, Virginia Ann; Weitzman, Murray S. – 1986
The second in a biennial series of statistical profiles of the independent sector (voluntary sector, third sector, or nonprofit sector) describes and charts the activities of groups and individuals associated with this sector. Included are voluntary organizations, foundations, the social responsibility programs of corporations, and people who…
Descriptors: Donors, Economic Factors, Higher Education, Private Financial Support
Passow, A. Harry; And Others – 1976
This report is intended (1) to identify social, economic, and political factors that account significantly for differences between national systems of education to draw up national socioeconomic and educational profiles of 20 participating countries, and (2) to relate these characteristics to cognitive learning outcomes as measured by achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
de Vries, John – 1988
This paper addresses the issue of measuring the integration of various ethnocultural communities into Canadian society by means of statistical or social indicators. The overall philosophy of the study is based on the following principles: (1) indicators should have a clear meaning with respect to the underlying concept of integration; (2)…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Development, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Hastings, Philip K., Ed.; And Others – 1975
This volume consists of an index of questions repeated in public opinion surveys, and the variants of these questions. The questions included are drawn from American national samples (primarily of the general population) conducted by AIPO (Gallup) NORC, and Roper, and archived at the Roper Public Opinion Research Center. The basic data for over 90…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Information Sources, National Surveys
Snyder, Thomas D. – Principal, 1987
Reviews demographic and other trends in elementary schools, including pupil teacher ratios, school size, student and family characteristics, private schools, teacher age and years of teaching, state and local revenues, federal aid, expenditures, and writing and reading proficiencies. Includes five tables. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demography, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Burd, Gene – 1973
Magazine journalism is not dead, despite the demise of many giant publications, but is thriving in new forms on the threshold of a new era whose trademark is urbanism. New publications recently appearing are primarily special audience magazines designed to fill the specific information needs of new groupings of readers. Since most of these new…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Journalism, Mass Media, Periodicals
Laxer, Gordon; And Others – 1974
With Circular H.S.1 1972/73, the Ministry of Education directed Ontario's secondary schools to provide an increased range of course offerings and to allow students as much freedom as possible to choose their own courses. To identify the effects of the individualized "credit system" established by this controversial circular, a number of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
ROSENSTEIN, BETTY L. – 1967
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF WOMEN, THEIR LIFE STYLE AND PAST EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES, WAS MADE OF WOMEN BETWEEN 21 AND 72 YEARS OF AGE. MAILED QUESTIONNAIRES OBTAINED DATA FROM 337 RESPONDENTS ON WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND WHY, IF THEY LIKED WHAT THEY WERE DOING, AND HOW PAST EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES INFLUENCED THEIR ACTIVITIES.…
Descriptors: Activities, Adult Education, Adults, Age Differences
Hymes, Jr., James L. – 1977
This booklet presents a brief, informal summary of key events related to early childhood education which occurred in the United States during 1976. Personal comments by the author accompany a potpourri of items on such topics as developments in various states, new federal legislation, current programs and publications, health care, television and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Childrens Television, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Ferriss, Abbott L. – 1969
This volume presents trend data in an attempt to assess the educational system in America and to detect the patterns of change within the system. Data indicating the changes that have occurred are presented in seven areas: (1) school enrollment, (2) teacher characteristics, (3) student performance on aptitude and achievement tests, (4) degree…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Degrees (Academic), Economic Climate, Educational Change
