This paper determines the degree to which recent Soviet migration can be adequately described by generalizations concerning Western experience. (Author)

The position of caretaker of a school is a many-sided and an important one, and the matter of his selection, supervision, and training have hardly been given the attention they deserve. There have been, in recent years, some valuable local studies in this field, but no survey of national scope has been attempted since 1922. The importance of the…

Descriptions of American Indian history in the making are presented--e.g., Sioux and Choctaw Indian dictionaries; and an all Indian rodeo held in San Francisco. (FF)

Article describes an adult education training program in two urban regions of Iran. (MM)

This paper is part of a larger research project on the decisional structure of regionalized countries, which the authors are conducting at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella with the Arq. Jorge Hardoy. (Editor)

A distinguished national leader suggests a better balance between rural and urban development which could halt or even reverse the detrimental population movement that has jammed America's cities and depopulated its countryside. (Editor)

Presents a comparative analysis of changing ethnic residential distributions from 1940-1970 to identify recently evolved forms of ethnic settlement in the Detroit (Michigan) metropolitan area. Identifies and classifies contemporary types of ethnic communities to expand the knowledge of ethnic settlement. (MK)

Discusses conventional indices for measuring the aging of populations. Proposes a new index for measuring the aging of populations using the proportions of all available age categories. Focuses on changes in the structure of a population. (RC)

Between 1983 and 1990, the United States experienced one of its longest periods of economic expansion since the Second World War. The 1983-95 period has been a time of fundamental economic change, with wide variations by state and region caused by industrial restructuring, worker migration, and immigration. (JOW)

Presents an activity designed to help secondary students understand how population density affects their own community. Contains background information on the population issue and detailed procedures for the activity. (DDR)

Examined the influence of birth place on the internal migration and spatial redistribution patterns of foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States for 1975 to 1980 and 1985 to 1990. Differing patterns and networks established by immigrant cohorts have resulted in higher concentrations of the foreign-born compared to the…

Analyzes the scale and size distribution of U.S. metropolitan areas from 1910-95. Before World War II, the population became increasingly concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas in the top decile of size distribution. Since 1950, there has been loss of population share for these areas. This is not counterbalanced by increasing share among…

The Country Data Project was developed for eighth-grade students of Milwaukee public schools to make them understand the importance of numbers by making them interpret the full descriptions of people of various countries by analyzing the numbers summarizing the population distribution of the respective country. The results prove that the project…