Between 1970 and 2001, women went from being the minority to the majority of the U.S. undergraduate population, increasing their representation from 42 percent to 56 percent of undergraduates (Freeman 2004). Projections to 2013 indicate that women's undergraduate enrollment will increase to 8.9 million or 57 percent of the undergraduate population…

Despite recruitment efforts, San Antonio community college was experiencing a marked decrease in Latino enrollment, particularly from neighborhood high schools that traditionally had been their feeder schools. The Intercultural Development Research Association examined the problem and found that the college, like many two- and four-year…

An average of 1,000 school consolidations were formed yearly; public money spent for pupil transportation increased about three and one-half million dollars annually; and the number of one-room schools in the United States decreased about 4,500 a year, during the period from 1918 to 1922. These are the rates at which three important movements in…

For the 1921-22 school year 1,963 private high schools and academies sent to the bureau schedules complete enough to include in this bulletin. The number of schools reporting decreased about 6 per cent since 1920. This decrease can not be charged to any particular type of control. There is a substantial increase in the number of graduates from…

Considered the rapid growth of education and the growing awareness of the increasingly complex problems of management and coordination in the education system. (Author/RK)

Abridged version of an article appearing in French in Le Monde'', November 27-28, 1972 and in English translation in the Manchester Guardian Weekly,'' December 16, 1972. (DD)

The secondary schools of England and Wales have laboured for a long time under a shortage of well qualified mathematics and science teachers. There are at last some signs that the situation is changing. (Editor)

Author offers suggestions for improving sagging enrollment at community colleges. (RK)

Paper presented at the third meeting of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, April 15-17, 1971, in Detroit, Michigan. (DS)

In view of current slackening demand for teachers, and growing demand for professionally trained social workers, it is time for colleges of education in Britain to diversity their programs to prepare needed professional personnel. (IR)

School-by-school graduate/undergraduate enrollments for all programs and students combined are presented in an alphabetical list by state. Enrollments by curriculum, for women, minorities, and foreign nationals, as well as a 10-year summary (fall 1973-1982) are also presented and discussed. (JN)

The initial financial outcomes of the "voucher plan" applied to the nonpublic schools in British Columbia are assessed. The schools are then described and a summary of the methods of financing both public and nonpublic schools is offered. Impacts of aid on parents, students, taxpayers, and the government are discussed. (Author/PN)