This study investigated the relationship of kindergarten entrance age to academic achievement at the end of grades one through five, and the influence of gender, race, and family income on student achievement. A total of 185 students who attended a Cooperative Demonstrative Kindergarten during 1979-82 and remained in the Starkville (Mississippi)…

Equity and choice are both fundamental goals of democratic education, and yet they are often in conflict. Giving poor families more choice in where they send their children to school would seem to provide immediate expansion of their equal educational opportunity, and yet the various policies that might implement such choices are seen as a serious…

This report analyzes the sources of income and the income problems of black families in the nonmetropolitan South based on 1980 data. It also describes some characteristics of family householders and adult family members related to income-earning capacity, such as age, education, work disability, labor force status, occupation, and weeks worked.…

American schools will be at risk until they allow all students to achieve near their potential. Until then America is also at risk because the potential of minorities and of the underclass are not being fully developed, and because the nation's goals of social justice and economic growth are not being met. In a study that compared the scores of…

This report focuses on individual financial support networks which supplement the incomes of persons who live in different households. It introduces a new data set from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Information was collected in a supplement to the SIPP conducted between January and April 1985 in about 17,000 households.…

What has happened to poor families with children and corresponding changes in Federal expenditure for antipoverty programs between 1980 and 1984 are the subjects of this study, prepared by the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee. The study attempts to recreate the experience of a "typical" welfare-receiving family, a mother and…

A new measure of intensity of employment of human resources was developed for this rural-urban comparative study and utilized to assess the productivity of small town and low-income urban family units and their individual members. (MW)

The internal factors found to be supportive of family stability and mobility in 178 black middle income families in urban and suburban mid-Atlantic areas were examined in this study. The following variables were studied: (1) mobility patterns over three generations, (2) family structure, (3) kinship help network, (4) decision making patterns in…

Argues that the economic functions of families should be redefined, so that the contributions of all family members to income are recognized; and also that it must be decided whether, for purposes of social policy or even economic policy, the welfare of the individual or of the family will be the criterion for establishing goals. (Author/JM)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, notes that a study of 250 of the largest corporate employers with respect to their civil rights compliance posture suggests that microeconomic policy for the economy needs to be much better integrated with Fair Employment Practice Policy.…

This paper reviews research studies dealing with the effects on families of changes in the labor force patterns of working mothers during the period from 1970 to l980. Research information is presented in a column format: the first column provides the study findings, the second points out the sources of the findings, and the third suggests…

THE PURPOSE WAS TO DRAW SOME RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY AND BEHAVIOR, SPECIFICALLY ANALYZING THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF INADEQUATE INCOME ON LOW-INCOME MOTHERS' CHILD-REARING PRIORITIES AND ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PARENTS. LOW-INCOME MOTHERS SHOW CONSIDERABLE SATISFACTION WITH THE CHILD-REARING ROLE, BUT FEEL THEMSELVES LEAST ADEQUATE…

DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES (X) DESCRIBING AGE, COLOR, SEX, RURAL-URBAN STATUS, EDUCATION OF PARENTS, AND INCOME OF PARENTS ARE USED AS EXOGENOUS VARIABLES TO EXPLAIN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT RATES (R)--THE FRACTION OF A GROUP WITHIN THE SCHOOL AGE POPULATION ENROLLED IN SCHOOL--AND RELATIVE PROGRESS (P)--THE FRACTION OF A GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO ARE AHEAD OF…

Explained are the rationale and procedures for determining a college student's family's ability to contribute to payment of educational costs, as structured by the Congressional Budget Office. The problems of these calculations--including difficulties in obtaining enough information about state and local taxes, and possible changes in consumption…

By using environmental data, possibly as predictors in their own right, but most probably as moderator variables, it was intended to evaluate available and currently used predictors of leadership potential and academic success. The Environment and Interest Inventory was administered to nearly every candidate for admission to the academy. Over…