A site in Milwaukee was selected for a series of high-risk population survey. This area was rated in the lowest category for Milwaukee in terms of median educational level and income, and in the highest in terms of population density per living unit, percent housing rated as dilapidated, and unemployment. A pool of candidates composed of mothers…

Wages in the private sector are generally determined by labor supply and demand. In education, wages are frequently conditioned by political processes leading to severe irrationality in the salary policies of the institution. Hypotheses were tested that saw a school district's salary level as a function of the community's socioeconomic, cultural,…

This master's thesis is centered around the whole issue of whether New Careerists become more professionally oriented as time goes by, and if so, whether they are able to preserve their low-income characteristics and orientation and retain their ability to perform a bridging function in the low-income community at the same time. The instrument…

The principal objective of this 1970 thesis was to investigate empirically the social class differentials in educational orientations of over 5,000 rural Negro and white high-school sophomores from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas; in addition, the significance of educational goal differences and/or differential…

Contents of these hearings include: Existing Disparties in Public School Finance and Proposals for Reform, Steven J. Weiss, a Research Report to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, February 1970; Tentative Proposals for a Master Tax Plan, October, 1970, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts; several volumes of the "Public Tax Newsletter," a…

During the two years of research reported here, an attempt was made to differentiate those participants--all fourth graders--in an enriched educational program for disadvantaged ghetto children in several Harlem public schools who were thought to profit from a compensatory program, from those who did not. The guiding hypothesis is that the styles…

All discussions of what might have produced particular configurations of family structure among low-income blacks (or whites) have generally assumed an essential link between family structure and "pathology." This monograph is an attempt to provide some of the lacking theoretical structure and to evaluate more of the necessary empirical evidence…

The material presented in this report deals with the examination of educational policy and planning in Germany carried out as part of the program of the Education Committee of OECD for the Review of National Educational Policies. Part I is a report of the evaluation of German education made by the examiners. The material focuses on the course of…

Dichotomous poverty is defined by taking an arbitrary standard of consumption capability as a dividing line between rich and poor. An investigation into dichotomous poverty below the 2000 dollar level will be worthwhile, since, in 1953, the Planning Board announced as a goal the attempt to lift all families above this margin. In 1953, 78 percent…

The New Jersey Educational Assessment Program, designed to provide useful information to educational decision-makers at a variety of levels, is discussed as to a number of its characteristics. These program characteristics are: Goals--long range goals, outcome goals, and process goals; Test Development--fourth grade reading and mathematics and…

Communi-Link was designed to assist communities and states in planning and implementing comprehensive adult education and community improvement programs. The Communi-Link process encouraged the development and/or enhancement of "communication linkages" necessary for communities to assess problems, identify resources, and mobilize…

This bibliography is a guide to recent ERIC documents on the socialization of young children. Abstracts are provided for entries cited from Research in Education. Articles from Current Index to Journals in Education are listed. Titles selected were indexed under one or more of the following: social behavior, social development, social maturity,…

The primary objective of this survey was to gather basic information concerning the socioeconomic status and problems of the American Indians in Michigan. The major areas surveyed were education, employment and income, housing conditions, health, and general household characteristics. The survey also attempted to probe attitudes which are…

This volume, one of a series of area studies, compiles basic facts about the social, economic, and military institutions and practices of Nicaragua. The emphasis is on objective description of the nations' present society and the kinds of possible or probable changes that might be expected in the future. Twenty- six chapters are developed in four…

A twenty-six-month follow-up study was made of 75 Anglo- and Spanish-American primary school children who were examined on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, and the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test in order to determine the specific cognitive deficits which might account for the poor…