Results of the fall 1981 Student Source Survey of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education are presented. The geographic locations of the public senior and junior colleges and private senior and junior colleges are shown with maps. Data are provided on: the relative participation of first-time entering (FTE) freshmen by county, FTE-freshmen as a…

Findings of a national survey of remedial studies in two- and four-year colleges are presented. Data were reported for the 1983-1984 academic year. The study focused on providing estimates of the: number and type of remedial courses offered; percent of freshmen needing and taking courses; changes in enrollment; program characteristics such as type…

Nursing school enrollments and graduations for 1985-1986 are reported for full-time and part-time students enrolled in baccalaureate and graduate programs in schools belonging to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Data on 128,000 students were obtained from 367 schools. Comparing selected data from the 1984-1985 and 1985-1986…

Using survey responses and catalogue descriptions from 38 programs, the paper examines the current status of Chicano studies programs in four-year colleges/universities in the Southwest. Findings indicate many programs evolved from the civil rights legislation of the 1960s to address ethnic minority concerns and to offer curriculum in the…

Statistics on Canadian universities are presented in 29 tables in both English and French. The data include: total population and age group 18-24 by province for 1971, 1976, 1981, and 1986; full-time enrollment rates by educational level; graduation rates for secondary schools, community colleges, and universities; unemployment rate by educational…

This report provides data on hourly wage rates and annual salaries paid in 1987-88 by responding public school systems to personnel employed in 10 selected support positions. The questionnaire was mailed to 1,728 of the approximately 11,307 public school systems in the United States enrolling 300 or more pupils. Of the 169 school systems with…

For 20 years, Federal law has mandated that low achieving children residing in low income areas receive supplemental services regardless of whether they attend public or nonpublic schools. Yet Chapter 1 participation rates have always been lower for nonpublic school children than they have for public school children. School size and problems of…

Information about off-campus instructional locations of the State University of New York is presented, based on results of the Instructional Locations Away from the Main Campus Survey, Fall 1987. For each of 412 instructional locations away from the main campus, information is provided on: number of courses by level, registrations, academic…

This document presents statistical data on the variables that affect the education of children aged 5 to 18 living in households. The data are culled from the October Current Population Surveys (CPS) for 1977, 1982, and 1983, and the March CPS for 1978, 1983, and 1984. The following variables are examined: (1) poverty; (2) race/ethnicity; (3)…

This document reprints a series of articles appearing in the Parsippany, New Jersey, "Daily Record" on October 25-30, 1987 and November 9, 1987. The series stresses that the New Jersey special education system has vastly improved from what existed prior to the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act, but that the system still…

As part of Australia's Education and Local Development project, Tasmanian researchers investigated whether the upgrading of district schools to district high schools had contributed to the social, economic, and cultural development of the local areas. For three selected areas (Glenora, Sheffield, and Ouse), researchers gathered financial and…

The Career Aspiration Profile was used to study barriers to the entrance of both men and women into nontraditional careers. Responses were solicited to items dealing with career choice; focus was on those factors perceived as barriers to entrance into nontraditional careers. Respondents were 1350 high school seniors and students from two- and…

Enrollment Data for 1977-1981 full- and part-time students in postsecondary institutions in Ontario, Canada, are presented in response to information needs of institutions and the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. The introduction, highlights of findings, and statistical tables are presented in both French and English. Analysis is…

Organizational theory offers rural school administrators several ways of thinking about retrenchment made necessary by declining enrollment. Obstacles to innovative responses to retrenchment include a shift in how organizations are perceived: from closed systems in which rational decisions are made about changes, to open systems in which…

Because of the extensive demographic and economic data available and the trend of rising educational attainment during the past two decades, the Philippines' Bicol region served as an example for researchers analyzing the decision of families in low-income rural areas to send their children to school. Researchers applied relevant time measures to…