The author discusses the state of unemployment in the 1970s among teenagers, some reasons for its existence, the long-term consequences, and the net impact of the teenage experience on joblessness. (RK)

Statistics for 1977 enrollments in pharmacy degree programs are presented, and comparisons are made with 1976 enrollments. Most of the tables list figures by schools and states. Increases have occurred in overall enrollment and in female and under-represented minorities enrollment in the Pharm D program as a second pharmacy degree. (SW)

Statistics for 1977 enrollments in graduate level pharmacy degree programs are presented. Tables indicate full- and part-time enrollments in masters and doctoral programs and enrollments in speciality areas. Enrollments of minorities and women, enrollments by state and school, financial support information, and degree programs of different schools…

This model is designed to determine the optimal resource mix necessary to meet a set of educational goals within a set of technical and physical resource constraints. (Author/IRT)

Of the groups surveyed (faculty, students, and administrators/professional staff), tenured faculty tended to be the least supportive of innovative programs. (Author/IRT)

Examines the impact of formal collective negotiations on six levels of the Illinois teacher salary schedule in the absence of comprehensive bargaining legislation. Results indicate a significant positive relationship between negotiations and teacher salary levels attributable to negotiation activity. (Author/IRT)

Black male and white female managers were perceived as exhibiting more consideration behavior than white male managers do. (Author)

Explores usefulness of a two-stage diagnostic system. The proposed diagnostic system warrants trail application in a real-life setting, although 85 percent of the initially unclassified subjects and 79 percent of the random data records were also identified. (Author)

Published research productivity of 97 sociologists from a variety of types of institutions is evaluated quantitatively for both the pretenure period and the post-tenure period in the person's career. Data consist of vita and supplementary information, coded into a weighted index that takes journal prestige into account. (Author/LBH)

Two tables show the number of teachers and pupils per teacher aide in school districts in the eight geographical regions of the United States in the 1984-85 school year. The Far West has the lowest pupil-to-teacher aide ratio, and the Mideast the highest. (PGD)

This report provides an update to the technical analysis procedures documenting the 1996 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as presented in "The NAEP 1996 Technical Report" (Allen, Carlson, and Zelenak, 1999). It describes how the 1999 long-term trend data were incorporated into the trend analyses. Since no national main…

Nearly 1.7 million Hispanic students were enrolled in the nation's 4,100 degree-granting colleges and universities in fall 2002. A big share of these students, 87 percent, are undergraduates (rather than graduate or first-professional students). In comparison, undergraduates make up 81 percent of all white college students. Among youth finishing…

This study investigated the relationship between the scales used for the NDSA assessments and the RIT scales used to report performance on Northwest Evaluation Association tests. The study estimated the changes in reading and mathematics RIT score equivalents for the NDSA performance levels in those subjects. Test records for more than 9,000…

This report on substance use is the first presenting State estimates from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). The report presents State estimates for 17 different measures related to substance use. Of these measures, 12 are based on an average for the combined years 1999 and 2000, while the remaining 5 only use the 2000 data.…

This report provides statistics on numbers of students in Ohio identified as gifted; examines the effect of a 1999 state law standardizing the identification of gifted students; identifies factors that influence the proportion of students that districts identify as gifted; compares the identification of gifted students in Ohio with other states;…