This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 "Dowell" decision, which authorized a return to neighborhood schools, even if that would create segregation, through the 2001-2002 school year. It goes beyond previous reports by Harvard's Civil Rights Project to study the impact of resegregation in…

This study used data from the Census of Population 1990 and 2000 to investigate economic inequalities between racial and ethnic groups, particularly blacks and Hispanics. It examined people's household incomes and the quality of their neighborhoods. Non-Hispanic Blacks remained the lowest-income minority group, with household incomes only 63.7…

This report summarizes the most recent data available on key indicators of progress in U.S. higher education. The report examines trends in high school completion and college participation rates, educational attainment, college enrollment, and degrees conferred. The primary data sources include U.S. Census data and various surveys conducted by the…

This special Kids Count report provides information on the changing demographic characteristics of children in Arkansas, based on data from the 2000 Census. Current and trend data are detailed by county for child population growth between 1990 and 2000, child percentage of the population, and child population growth by race or ethnic group.…

Under a legislative mandate, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board conducted a study of the "best practices" in women's athletic development programs at Texas public colleges and universities. The study was to focus on programs that offer outreach through summer camp experiences to high school girls to encourage them to participate in…

Despite the national decline in child poverty and low-income rates in the United States since the early 1990s, the rates in California have surpassed those of the nation. This report, the first in a new series on child poverty in individual states, provides a demographic profile of California's low-income families, highlighting the high number and…

HSIs (Hispanic-Serving Institutions) are important institutions for Latinos, yet little research exists on them. This brief serves as a primer on the conditions and history behind their invention, the processes for identification, and the general institutional characteristics of HSIs. It also offers an overview of how these institutions are…

Many minorities in Boston (Massachusetts) do not feel part of the entire community because the city does not work for people in minority groups in fundamental ways. This report analyzes the content and consequences of Boston's many contradictions and the challenges these contradictions pose for the city's three major communities of color: Blacks,…

This study explored the differences between African American and Latina female adolescents who desire to become pregnant and those who do not. Five hundred and thirty-one sexually experienced, never pregnant adolescents completed surveys containing questions about demographics, sexual behavior and contraceptive use, sexual and contraceptive…

This interdisciplinary, bilingual curriculum resource, contains a 29-minute videotape program, 20 colorplate posters, and a curriculum guide. The resource presents an examination of the folklife and folklore expressions of the Hispanic people of New Mexico. The focus of the curriculum is the relationship of survival-based folk activities to the…

This report provides demographic information about students attending the 82 New York Networks for School Renewal (NYNSR) founding schools in the 1995-96 school year and compares them to students in non-NYNSR New York City public schools. It also describes the location, number, size, and grade levels of NYNSR schools. The NYNSR project is a joint…

This video presentation (28 minutes, in color) examines roadblocks to Latino academic advancement as well as productive educational models; explores the relationship of standardized testing and cultural diversity and questions whether cultural bias can be eliminated from standardized testing; and looks at early childhood education programs and the…

This document discusses a proposed national articulation agreement among urban community colleges, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) to increase minority degree attainment. In 1998, the percentages of African-American and Hispanic adults receiving a bachelor's degree were 18% and 17%,…

This report from the 1997 Aspen Institute seminar concerns how demographic changes in American will affect Hispanic Americans' role in the business community. Section 1, "Lashes: Back, Front, and Sideways" (Harold Hodgkinson), describes pervasive national pessimism over demographic change and documents universal backlash to that change…

This paper from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides information on current status and historical trends in the employment of Hispanic women. Some of the findings include the following: (1) the Hispanic women's population increased by 52 percent from 1990-1999, compared with 17 percent for black women and 7 percent for white women; (2) 9…