It is the opinion of the authors of this position paper that collective bargaining in the public sector causes an increase in strikes and employee unrest, resulting in a diminution of public services. The authors assert that public employee collective bargaining means giving unions the power to control government through intimidation of the…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the Educational Commission of the States, has for the past 7 years been assessing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of groups of young Americans. NAEP collects data by age, sex, race, geographic region, size and type of community and level of parental education for several…

Investigation of interlibrary loan at the Library of Congress showed that academic libraries were the most frequent borrowers, more requests were for humanities materials, LC received more requests for old items than academic libraries, and 54 percent of requests were filled. Data tables show various distributions. (Author/JD)

Compares three methods of treating missing data with respect to the results obtained, the informational value of each method, the population to which the results can be referred, and statistical power. (Author)

Reviews and analyzes the status of state legislation related to career education through 1977, focusing on goals, programs, administration, extent of funding, and types of legislation. Career education legislation has been enacted in sixteen states and is pending or being discussed in fourteen other states. (MF)

The importance of machine readable data files (MRDF) produced as products of social science research is discussed, and formal and informal, short range and long range measures are suggested to increase the accessibility of information from policy makers, researchers, and students for librarians. (JPF)

Marginality can be associated with personal qualities of neutrality, open-mindedness, and flexibility in processing information, all of which can be useful and desirable, both personally and organizationally. Available from: JABS Order Dept., NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, P.O. Box 9155, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, Virginia 22209…

An overview is provided for librarians of the types of statistical or numeric data bases offered by Data Resources, Inc., General Electric Information Division, Predicasts, and Interactive Data Corporation. Tables list the types of data or statistical information available from each. (JPF)

The article reviews the ways in which norm-referenced developmental age (DA) and developmental quotient (DQ) evaluation data are currently reported in preschool early intervention program evaluation studies. The concept of intervention DQ in contrast with pretest DQ is proposed as a more meaningful way to report evaluation data. (Author/DB)

Federal statistical programs are important for monitoring both the need for the impact of public programs, including those for handicapped children. The federal statistical system has suffered from overall budgetary cutbacks, and from several decisions to eliminate statistical programs. (Author/CL)

Author argued that the attempt to gather valid data to measure educational standards is bound to fail. (Editor/RK)

This report profiles the American high school senior of 2004 using data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), the most recent secondary school longitudinal study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). ELS:2002 began with a nationally representative sample of 10th-graders in public and private schools…

This paper reviews the statistical evidence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) violence in the United States and in the world. Statistics are from Amnesty International and the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Reasons why this violence exists and international human rights responses are reviewed. In addition,…

This document is a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The first part of this report presents data concerning an overview of the historical dimensions of Catholic education and the context of American education in which private schools operate. The second part includes Catholic school enrollment…

This report provides a summary overview of findings in major data and research papers about the implications of information technologies for the home. A full literature review of these works, "The Application and Implications of Information Technologies in the Home," is presented. This study identifies eight core data sets and reviews more than 30…