This report presents fall 1973 basic educational data on all free public elementary and secondary day schools in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying areas under U. S. jurisdiction. Included are national trend data since fall 1969 on selected items of information. Detailed data, by State or other area, are also provided on…

The pilot study reported in this monograph is part of a larger study that includes data on 5 Southwestern American Indian reservations. Its primary purpose is to provide basic manpower information essential for planning and developing effective services and programs for the Acoma Pueblo Indians. Manpower resource characteristics are presented for…

This variable rule analysis of the indefinite article "an" was done by means of a computer program developed by H. Cedergren and D. Sankoff of Montreal. The data was collected from 45-minute interviews with three different groups of college students essentially alike in age: (1) 13 whites from Louisiana, (2) 12 blacks from southwestern Ohio, and…

The purpose of this survey and report is to gain information about parental planning for child-rearing when the mother is employed. This study is intended to explore mothers' perceptions of possible delegation of some basic child-rearing functions during the mothers' absence for employment. Comparison of the child care arrangements which the…

The Minority Mobility Project (MMP) is concerned with personnel policies and practices which impart the utilization and upward mobility of minorities and women. The report details the various policy and analytical research questions raised in the course of a project involving quantitative and qualitative analyses of primary data on personnel…

Directed toward practitioners and program administrators in the field of vocational rehabilitation, the report deals with current concerns, issues, and practices related to rehabilitation of the blind in public and private agencies. The first chapter provides an overview of the document. Chapter 2 reports on existing and emerging occupational…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The overall goal of the 1972-73 Title I Program in the Newark School District was to diagnose reading difficulties of and provide preventive, individualized, developmental, and/or remedial programs for children who had demonstrated extreme educational deficiencies. This evaluation attempts to measure the extent and effectiveness of various reading…

During the 1971-72 school year, data was gathered on pre and post test scores for reading and mathematics achievement from 2 groups of mobile migrant children receiving supplementary educational services. The program, a part of the California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children (Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act), used 2…

The authors first present their views on directions for change. They see the desirable direction for change involving a significant expansion of the Federal financing of education; decentralization of the administration and control of schools; and the creation of centers for education research, training, innovation, and information on a regional…

To generate information relative to job mobility which could be helpful to occupational administrators in hiring and meeting in-service education needs, questionnaires were sent to a two percent representative sampling of occupational educators in the U.S. The sample was divided by type of school (regular and comprehensive, secondary and…

It is claimed that, properly organized, management information systems not only can contain all the data within a total organization, but can refine and arrange the information so that it becomes meaningful to the decisionmaker. At present their functions are virtually restricted to middle management, operational control levels. However, the rapid…