In Belarus, the ways in which statistics are compiled, the complex rules for registering as unemployed, and the segmentation of the labor market and job-seeking activities, all combine to hide the actual levels of employment and unemployment. This in turn makes it difficult to develop appropriate and effective labor policies, and to have support…

This study compared differences in diploma and graduation dropout rates among students with and without disabilities, analyzed differences in various graduation-types by disabilities, and offered recommendations to improve graduation rates through evidence-based practices. The geographic catchment area of this study was limited to twelve Southern…

During the five-year period studied, 1970-71 through 1974-75, the number of women receiving doctor's degrees increased each year while the number of men decreased. This study analyzes the changes in the numbers and percentages of men and women obtaining doctor's degrees, the distribution of degrees among discipline divisions, and differences among…

The proposed New York State Cost of Education Index would be a statistical measure of the price changes in the goods and services purchased by local districts. Data would be available on a regional basis. Many statistical procedures and theoretical considerations involved in constructing such an index are similar to those used for the Consumer…

Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…

A third annual study, involving 107 higher education institutions (39 public, 68 private) was conducted to determine rate and occupancy trends in housing operations of the Middle Atlantic Region. Each responding institution was asked to state its basic nine-month double-room rate or to compute an average rate if they have more than one. It is…

This report presents a detailed picture of trends in the segregation of Hispanic children in American urban public schools from 1970 to 1974. A companion volume reports on trends in black school segregation from 1970 to 1974. This volume shows both the broad regional and national trends of segregation of the nation's second largest minority group,…

Analyzed is the impact of regional, racial or ethnic, and socioeconomic factors on handicapped students' participation during 1973 in special education programs in more than 37,000 schools within 2,500 local U.S. school districts. Included are data on American Indian, black, Spanish surnamed, Asian American, and nonminority pupils enrolled in…

Accreditation relationships of postsecondary institutions in the United States are described in this study conducted by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA). All regionally accredited institutions in four of the established regions (Middle States, New England, Western, Northern) and a sample of states from two of the regions (North…

VOLUME IV, A STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT TO AN EVALUATION REPORT OF NEW ENGLAND'S 1966 TITLE I PROJECTS, PRESENTS PROJECT DATA WHICH COMPARE THE STATES AND PROJECT TYPES. (LB)

VOLUME III, A STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT TO AN EVALUATION REPORT OF NEW ENGLAND'S 1966 TITLE I PROJECTS, CONTAINS DATA WHICH COMPARE STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS (SMSA) AND PROJECT TYPES. (LB)