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Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network, Rochester. – 1993
This study discusses the racial and ethnic composition of Minnesota's children and child care providers, focusing on the need for more multi-ethnic, culturally-appropriate programming for the increasing number of children of color in the state. A 1992 survey of 1,003 day care centers and 35 Head Start programs found disparities between numbers of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office for Planning, Research, and Program Accountability. – 1990
This volume, part of the second annual report on the educational status of schools in the state required by the New York State Legislature, presents a statistical portrait of the elementary and secondary education system for the 1988-89 academic year. In this volume, information about the public schools is given for the state as a whole, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Tarpley, Crystal L.; And Others – 1992
Factors that account for variance between groups of Mississippi students in their choice of college types were studied using data from the 1991 American College Testing (ACT) Program. The objectives of this study were to describe Mississippi students who plan to attend community or junior colleges and who took the spring 1991 ACT Assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Entrance Examinations
Sedey, John M. – 1990
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1988. Data regarding 15,232 students (14,151 graduates, 503 dropouts, and 578 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 87 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from 966…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Sedey, John M. – 1991
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1989. Data regarding 14,636 students (14,024 graduates, 324 dropouts, and 288 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 97 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from 853…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Sedey, John M. – 1992
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1990. Data regarding 12,458 students (11,814 graduates, 356 dropouts, and 288 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 90 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from 926…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Sedey, John M. – 1993
A study examined the educational and employment activities of members of Minnesota's high school class of 1991. Data regarding 12,270 students (11,674 graduates, 218 dropouts, and 378 students school leavers not classified as dropouts) were collected from 107 high schools participating in the Minnesota Secondary School Follow-up System and from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Curriculum, Educational Trends
Virginia State Dept. of Community Colleges, Richmond. – 1993
A study was conducted to measure the impact of the Virginia Community College System's (VCCS's) tuition increases on enrollment by randomly surveying students who had enrolled in the VCCS in fall 1991, but who had not enrolled for fall 1992. Some 76,191 of the 133,662 students enrolled in community colleges in fall 1991 did not re-enroll in fall…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Buechler, Mark – 1991
This bulletin summarizes the findings of a study that sought to determine what policies, regulations, and practices teachers believed posed the most significant constraints on their classroom activities; whether these constraints originated at the federal, state, local, or school level; and what effect the costraints had on quality instruction and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Educational Practices
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Information Center on Education. – 1993
Sixteen data tables illustrate characteristics of public school teachers, administrators, and other professional personnel in New York State in 1992-93. Data in this report were derived from New York State's Basic Educational Data System and New York State's Teacher Certification files. Data are based on information submitted by all public…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Age, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Regions
Larson, Elizabeth Hunt; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 1998
In spring 1998, 1,057 10th-grade students were surveyed as one component of a statewide evaluation of Arizona's school-to-work system designed by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy. This second survey measured attitudes toward and participation in career activities. Results were compared to baseline data collected from over 2,000 10th-grade…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1992
This factbook presents tabular data on first-time freshmen and transfer students in postsecondary education in California. The report presents data on students in six categories. The first section provides information about all of California's college and university students. The second section contains information about the proportional…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic)
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1991
Transfer rates from California's community colleges to the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) are reviewed, along with information on the upper-division performance of transfer students, the results of a pilot test of transfer centers at 20 community colleges, possible future trends in transfer, and problems…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Institute for Behavioral Research in Creativity, Salt Lake City, UT. – 1991
In recent years a movement has developed at the high school level to address issues of cost and educational improvement through Proficiency-Based Credit Assessment (PBCA). With PBCA, students can receive credit by demonstrating their proficiency without actually taking a course. A national mail survey conducted by the Utah State Office of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Equivalency Tests
Minnesota State Board of Teaching, St. Paul. – 1991
The Pre-Professional Skills Tests (PPST) of reading, mathematics, and writing are three separate tests designed to measure basic proficiency in these areas. In response to a mandate from the State Legislature, the Minnesota Board of Teaching adopted these tests, developed by the Educational Testing Service. An evaluation of the 3 years of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Beginning Teachers, Chi Square, Comparative Testing
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