Usable responses from 54% of adult-basic-education providers (n=555) in nine states identified how they determine whether adult clients have disabilities, the number with disabilities, and the total with disabilities in the region. Inner city/urban and smaller programs reported significantly more clients with disabilities. (SK)

A national survey examined similarities and differences across state agencies, especially departments of special education and vocational rehabilitation, concerning their definitions and eligibility for services to individuals with learning disabilities. Analysis utilized a conceptual framework consisting of 21 components. Significant differences…

Provides highlights from the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment, describing its content, its major findings at state and national levels, and students' experiences at home and at school that support achievement in reading. Discusses the mixed results from the 1998 reading assessment. (SLD)

Focuses on two aspects of writing for which change has been measured since 1984: writing fluency and mastery of the conventions of written English. Results from the 1996 long-term trend writing assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show modest improvements in conventions mastery since 1984 and improvements in fluency…

Analyzes and documents classification issues as part of the assessment of data quality in the Common Core of Data (CCD). Focuses on the Public Elementary/Secondary Education Agency Universe Survey. Indicates shortcomings in the definitions used for the CCD. (SLD)

Analyzed longitudinal data from a national survey of male adolescents, the Youth in Transition Survey, to test the assumption that child aggression represents a functional response to family strain. Results indicate a reciprocal relationship between parental and child aggression, characterized by countervailing effects. Contains 56 references.…

Examined the current status of female middle-level principals, their perceptions of their jobs, and their support of and reaction to various middle-level programs and issues. Found that females had more instructional experience and education, focused more on personnel and program issues, and were more likely to engage parents and community members…

Accounting majors (n=126) displayed significantly more apprehension about writing compared to national norms; males were more apprehensive than were females. Nontraditional students (over age 25) did not differ from traditional students. Accounting students were less tolerant of ambiguity than the national norm; males and nontraditional students…

Surveyed 55 U.S. pharmacy colleges concerning pediatric didactic content, reading assignments, clerkships, and time dedicated to pediatric pharmacy in entry-level doctor of pharmacy programs. An average of 16.7 hours was devoted to pediatric content in required courses with highly variable content. Fifty programs offered pediatric clerkships and…

This paper examines issues related to the costs of higher education in the context of recent national studies. It reviews initiatives of the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, the congressionally mandated College Cost Study, and the National Association of College and University Business Offices' Cost of College Project. Notes…

Analyzes results of the 1999 National Association of College and Business Officers tuition discounting survey and identifies trends. Finds colleges and universities are reactively responding to market pressures and proactively trying to analyze and position themselves ahead of the competition, often regional rather than national, for the…

Offers the first national estimates of nonresident fathers' income and child support payments. Findings indicate that nonresident fathers could pay as much as $34 billion more in child support. Explains how this figure was derived and offers a national profile of nonresident fathers and their ability to pay child support. (RJM)

Uses a national survey to examine the importance newspaper photo editors place on digital imaging and traditional photography competencies, detailing the degree of technological change in newspaper photography. Looks at implications for the training of journalists as well as their hiring. (SR)

This paper reports on a survey of 1,718 school-based speech language pathologists in 1995. Survey questions addressed such topics as caseload characteristics, service delivery, bilingual/bicultural services, supervision, support personnel, shortages of speech-language pathologists, substitutes, and demographic characteristics, and activities. (DB)

Using data from a longitudinal study of adolescents (N=608), an examination was made into the connection between the experience of physical discipline in childhood and violence in intimate relationships. It was determined that harsh physical punishment in childhood is directly related to greater perpetration of violence later against an intimate…