Data show that the genuine progress in securing educational equality in elementary, secondary, and higher education has not been paralleled in adult education. There is a downward trend in adult black enrollment percentages but an upward trend in population percentages. (LBH)

Income levels for all U.S. families, for families with third- and fourth-year college students, and for families with actual applicants and acceptees to medical school are examined. The data show that medical schools do accept slightly smaller percentages of low income students and larger percentages of high income students than are represented in…

Four issues are examined: (1) the distribution of the four Clark-Trow student types among a sample of post-activist students; (2) intercorrelations between the four types; (3) the degree to which students' perceptions of the prevailing type relates to their own typological self-descriptions; and (4) factors affecting student self-classification.…

Reviews demographic and other trends in elementary schools, including pupil teacher ratios, school size, student and family characteristics, private schools, teacher age and years of teaching, state and local revenues, federal aid, expenditures, and writing and reading proficiencies. Includes five tables. (MD)

Describes the Marquette University Interlibrary Loan Log, which is an online log of borrowing and lending requests. Applications of the interlibrary loan data for statistical reporting, management decision making, collection development, online enhancement, and copyright monitoring are discussed. (3 references) (CLB)

Examined are how decisive financial cuts are in Swiss higher education, where they occur, and what their effects are. Whether in fact there is a crisis in Swiss education and, if there is, whether it is attributable to financial cutbacks or other causes as yet undefined is then discussed. (RM)

In support of Ginsberg's theory (TM 508 964), a third corollary to the Conservation of Discretion Law is proposed: Where possible, the worker will use a statistic not as a statistic but, rather, as an instrument to reduce the workload. Three illustrations are presented: grade point averages, crime rates, and recidivism rates. (BW)

This second installment covers online sources to be used for searching current events questions on "who" (identification or background of a particular name), "where" (geographic areas, statistical databases), and "what" (international trade, foreign aid, international relations, crime, and disasters). A list of 139…

Recent patterns of demand for higher education and trends regarding the numbers of students staying on in full-time education after age 16 suggest that demand for British higher education may be greater than might be assumed from simply viewing the decline in the size of the 18- to 20-year-old age group. (RM)

The report of a study conducted in Washington State is comprised largely of questionnaire-collected data showing that Washington Vo-Ag teachers for the most part have too many students to supervise all aspects of their programs effectively. Supervised agricultural experience programs and FFA were most often cited as most neglected. (AJ)

Three graphic presentations from the Council for Financial Aid to Education are offered. They include data on voluntary support received in 1974-75 by 1034 higher education institutions by (1) donor category, (2) source, and (3) type of institution. (LBH)

Student/Teacher Ratios are calculated by dividing the fall enrollment count by the number of full-time equivalent teachers. Full-time equivalency (FTE) is the amount of time required to perform an assignment stated as a proportion of a full-time position, and computed by dividing the amount of time employed by the time normally required for a…

Under No Child Left Behind legislation, schools are held accountable for making "adequate yearly progress." Presumably, a school progresses when its impact on students improves. Yet questions about impact are causal questions that are rarely framed explicitly in discussions of accountability. One causal question about school impact is of…

This report looks at national comparisons of the most recent school expenditure data published in Rankings & Estimates 2004?05 by the National Education Association (NEA). Staffing and student data come from the Common Core of Data, 2003?04 (preliminary), published in 2005 by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). (Contains 9…