From 1960 to 1980, school enrollment and educational expenditures in developing countries experienced significant expansion. By the late 1980s, however, this trend had slowed. This report examines the impact of education upon welfare and productivity. A unified global data set is used to address the question from a macroeconomic, gender-specific,…

Tables and graphs drawn from research reports prepared in 1993 by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Westchester Community College (WCC) in New York are presented. The sections of the report provide tables, charts, and graphs showing recent facts and statistics that affect: (1) administrative personnel, including a list of…

Statistics on education in New York State for 1991-92 and trends from earlier years are reported in this series of tables. Emphasis is placed on summary tables and figures, but details for separate school districts are provided. Information is reported for elementary, secondary, higher, and professional education, as well as libraries and special…

The estimates in this report are key statistics reported early in the 1993-94 school year under the early estimates system, which allows the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to report important information promptly. These key statistics include the numbers of students in membership, teachers, and high school graduates for public…

This working paper reviews World Bank project experience in gender issues within higher education over the last two decades. The study's objectives were to: (1) assess the attention given by the Bank has given to gender issues in postsecondary education; (2) examine policies to increase women's access to postsecondary education; and (3)…

This policy statement is established to achieve equitable levels of participation for people of color and to create higher education environments in which diversity is valued and promoted within the state of Washington. It presents recommended activities directed at four-year institutions to increase their minority participation, as well as…

This report on the status of higher education in Texas covers enrollment trends, quality and access, research, campus planning, funding, and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board activities. The first section looks at enrollment trends and projections to the year 2005 highlighting an expected 250 percent increase in the number now attending…

This report provides statistical tables on the age groups and sex of full-time and part-time graduate and undergraduate students in the State University of New York (SUNY) system for Fall 1992. Part 1 contains data for the entire system including headcount tables with corresponding percent distribution arrays. Part 2 displays headcount and…

This document was compiled to help keep science and mathematics teachers in Australia abreast of the results of important research endeavors in education. The monograph is divided into 12 chapters. Chapter one, "Exemplary Science and Mathematics Teachers," (Barry Fraser and Kenneth Tobin) describes a study focusing on examples of…

A study conducted at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) followed beginning full- and part-time traditional credit students over a 10-year period to observe their performance and achievement. Tabulations were made on various different fields and cross-tabulated by age, sex, race, and major programs. Study findings, based on the academic…

Due to a projected enrollment of more than one million limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in California's public schools by the year 2000, the Task Force on Selected LEP Issues established in 1989 examined the lack of foresight and problems related to the low representation of minorities in higher education and especially in teacher…

The study sought to: (1) identify the determinants that motivate Hispanic-American students to enroll in high school chemistry; and (2) determine if providing belief-based information to students and their parents/guardians increases chemistry registration. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) guided the…

This document presents information on attrition and retention of students in the State University of New York (SUNY) for the class of 1988. Other types of data provided include partial history of other cohorts, and trends in attrition and retention since 1977. The data were collected through a SUNY 1990 Attrition/Retention Survey of constituent…

Part of a series of reports on undergraduate education in Illinois, this report focuses on transfer and articulation. The first section examines trends in transfer and after-transfer retention to baccalaureate degree completion of students who transferred from public community colleges to public universities. The second section traces the…

The final performance report of Project Learning TIP (To Improve Productivity), a federally-funded program to improve the work-related skills of Dade County, Florida hospital workers, is presented in seven sections. The first outlines specific project objectives for recruitment, literacy gains, course completion, achievement, English language…