A followup study was made of 200 graduates (50 from each program) of different kinds of job training in Detroit, Michigan, during 1968 through the Northern Systems Company Training Center, the McNamara Skills Center, the Concentrated Employment Program Orientation and Operation Mainstream (CEPO-Mainstream), and the Direct On-the-job Training…

This study investigated certain background characteristics of public elementary school principals in greater St. Louis, patterns in career development, comparisons between elementary and secondary school administrators, and implications for administrator training and development. Principals listed in either the city or suburban directory of public…

Step-wise multiple regression and typological analysis were used to analyze the extent to which selected factors influence vertical mobility and achieved level of living. A sample of 418 male household heads who were 18 to 45 years old in Washington County, Mississippi were interviewed during 1971. A prescreening using census and local housing…

The resource unit is a teacher-developed guide to methods and materials for teaching about race and ethnocentrism at the secondary level. The purpose of the outline is to provide a substantive and provocative unit on race, prejudice, and discrimination, with the strong conviction that attitudes and behavior can be influenced through exposure to a…

This book is an extensive description of the fall 1975 freshman students at 1,128 institutions participating in the ACT Assessment Program. It provides norms for academic abilities by geographic region, college type and control, student age, racial-ethnic background, curricular major, and family income. It also provides norms for nonacademic…

Claims that most instruction dealing with genetics is limited to sex education and personal hygiene. Suggests that the biology curriculum should begin to deal with other issues related to genetics, including genetic normality, prenatal diagnoses, race, and intelligence. Predicts these topics will begin to appear in British examination programs.…

An analysis of college faculty demographics looks at faculty distribution over institution types, the relationships of career status, sex, age, and salary, and three emergent faculty subgroups: women, minorities, and part-time faculty. (MSE)

This annual report for 1999-2000 monitors the Education Equity Program for the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST). The program assures potential students access to adult and postsecondary educational opportunities such that the proportions of targeted equity groups to the total student body are the same as in the…

This report presents national, regional, and state profiles of the target population for adult education, that is, those individuals aged 16 years and over, who have not attained a high school diploma or equivalent and are not currently enrolled in school. The tables contained in this report describe the following characteristics of the target…

This E.D. Tab focuses on degree completions in academic programs that have been deemed areas of national need by federal legislation. The analysis focuses on completions data from 1996-97 and 2001-02 and examines completions at institutions granting awards of associate's degrees and higher. In particular, it looks at the change in the total number…

This report contains two studies. The first study was conducted in order to obtain a profile of Kansas students in the 1999 class of National Merit Semifinalists (NMSFs). A survey was mailed to 166 students. Data were analyzed in terms of age, gender, race, language, family characteristics, high schools attended, extracurricular activities,…

These four Census Briefs highlight the information from the 2000 U.S. Census most relevant for community leaders, policy makers, advocates, and others concerned with the status of children and families in Rhode Island. The first brief graphs the large increase in the number of Rhode Island children. Two tables show child population in core cities…

Public schooling provides an opportunity for children of various races to interact more closely. School experience can create a consistent level of cross-racial contact that may not be duplicated in other social settings. However, cross-racial contacts in schools are not always positive. Research suggests that children may differ in their racial…

This 10th grade social studies lesson and language arts interdisciplinary curriculum unit asks students to examine the 19th century debate over U.S. foreign policy. Students engage in role playing and debate the expansionist policy versus the anti-imperialist policy. The unit includes an activity description, background information, questions to…

This essay examines the ways in which art and art history, as disciplines, have been influenced by feminist scholarship and research into the areas of gender, sexuality, and race. It explains that before the interventions of feminist art historians and theorists of art, beginning in the 1970s, the history of art was conceived of and taught as a…