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Adiseshiah, Malcolm S., Ed. – ASPBAE Courier, 1980
The role of adult education in reducing inequalities and raising levels of professional qualifications and cultural standards is the subject of this series of five reports presented at a symposium on adult education and inequality. Discussions of the role of adult education's threefold perspective of literacy learning and general cultural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Cultural Education, Developing Nations
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White House Conference on Families, Washington, DC. – 1980
This compilation contains the verbatim texts of recommendations made by states' delegates from 16 northeastern states participating in the Baltimore regional conference of the White House Conference on Families. The recommendations are organized by topic for each of the individual states. Topics include the following as related to the family: work…
Descriptors: Conferences, Day Care, Economic Status, Education
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White House Conference on Families, Washington, DC. – 1980
This compilation contains the verbatim texts of recommendations made by states' delegates from 11 midwest and southern states participating in the Minneapolis regional conference of the White House Conference on Families. The recommendations are organized by topic for each of the individual states. Topics include the following as related to the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Day Care, Economic Status, Education
White House Conference on Families, Washington, DC. – 1980
This compilation contains the verbatim texts of recommendations made by states' delegates from 20 western states participating in the Los Angeles regional conference of the White House Conference on Families. The recommendations are organized by topic for each of the individual states. Topics include the following as related to the family: child…
Descriptors: Conferences, Day Care, Economic Status, Education
Lacy, William B.; And Others – 1979
This research investigates the sex role attitudes of teachers, administrators, and other occupational groups. Respondents' sex role attitudes were measured in the areas of home, children, work, and politics. The results indicate that teachers may be less prejudiced than most occupational groups but are similar in sex role attitudes to other…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Clerical Workers, Elementary School Teachers
Bender, Carl M.; Petty, Gregory C. – 1980
This document contains one of two reports presented at the Governor's National Forum on Youth Employment, May 22-23, 1980. Focusing on Missouri Youth and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), this report is divided into five sections. Section 1 presents a geo-economic profile of Missouri by the following regions: (1) the St. Louis…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Statistics
Meyer, Jeanie Keeny; Levine, Daniel U. – 1978
The relationship between neighborhood characteristics and achievement level was investigated in six metropolitan schools, after accounting for neighborhood type. Neighborhoods were classified into four types: middle socioeconomic status white, low status white, middle status black, and low status black. Additional neighborhood…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Housing, Intermediate Grades, Metropolitan Areas
Mancini, Jay A. – 1978
Subjective and objective covariates of family life satisfaction among husbands and wives were examined. Interviews were conducted in the Spring of 1976 with 974 married adults selected by means of both probability and modified probability sampling designs. Independent indicators were categorized into three general groups: familial characteristics,…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Family Life, Financial Needs
Evertson, Carolyn M. – 1975
Praise and criticism data were collected during a two-year correlational study of a selected sample of second- and third-grade teachers chosen for their consistency in producing student learning gains averaged over four years, and these data were analyzed to determine the effect that praise, criticism, rewards, and punishment had on learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Conway, Phyllis D. – 1976
This dissertation investigates the patterns of intellectual growth and academic achievement of children who experienced similar elementary school education and differed in cultural group membership and socioeconomic status (SES). The subjects of this study were 271 junior high students in the Lincoln, Nebraska public schools who had been in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Groups, Intelligence Quotient
Witmer, David R. – 1979
A search for better predictors of incomes of high school and college graduates is described. The accuracy of the prediction, implicit in the work of John R. Walsh of Harvard University, that the income differences in a given year are good indicators of income differences in future years, was tested by applying standard statistical procedures to…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Conference Reports, Economic Status, High School Graduates
Coldren, Sharon L., Ed. – 1978
Papers are presented from a 1978 working conference on measuring financial conditions of colleges and universities. Contents include the following: "The Federal Government's Interest in the Development of Financial Measures" by M. Chandler; "Improving the Conceptual Framework for Measuring Financial Condition Using Institutional…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Data Analysis, Databases, Economic Research
Babladelis, Georgia – 1979
A multinational Roundtable discussion on the status of women was held at the meetings of the International Congress of Applied Psychology in Munich, 1979. Participants presented research findings and recommended strategies for eliminating or reducing barriers to women's achievement. There was high consensus that barriers to women's achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Interrelationships
BENJAMIN, JUDITH G.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE HIRING AND TRAINING POLICIES OF VARIOUS MANPOWER PROGRAMS ARE REVIEWED. THE MANPOWER OBJECTIVES OF EMPLOYING NONPROFESSIONALS IN ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS POSE SPECIAL PROBLEMS NOT NORMALLY FACED BY EMPLOYERS. THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCEPT, RESTRICTING EMPLOYMENT TO RESIDENTS OF THE LOCAL PROGRAM TARGET AREAS, IMPOSES GEOGRAPHIC LIMITATIONS ON THE…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Employment Problems, Indigenous Personnel, Job Training
SHELDON, WILLIAM D. – 1968
THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE MOBILE SUBURBS (THE MEGALOPOLIS) ARE AS SERIOUS IN MAGNITUDE AND TOTAL EFFECT AS THOSE OF THE MUCH PUBLICIZED CENTER CITY. BECAUSE OF THE MOBILITY AND THE HETEROGENIETY OF THESE AREAS, MANY STUDENTS RECEIVE INADEQUATE EDUCATION AND ENTER SOCIETY AS SEMILITERATES. AN ANALYSIS OF CENTERVILLE, A TYPICAL MAGALOPOLITAN…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Educational Needs, Educational Problems, Environmental Influences
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