This first major national examination of the numbers, roles, and characteristics of women on school boards found that 1) women, comprising scarcely 12% of school board positions, are grossly underrepresented in school service; 2) the talents and abilities of female school board members are comparable to, and sometimes superior to, those of male…

The goal of this report is said to be to review current approaches in psychological anthropology in such a way as to demonstrate what are perceived to be their relevance and importance to an adequate anthropology of education. Part One examines the trends seen emerging in the study of perception and cognition which those interested in education…

In 1965, Taeuber and Taeuber published trend data on racial residential segregation in 109 cities for the years 1940, 1950, and 1960. Their monograph, Negroes in Cities, reported a number of analyses of residential segregation and neighborhood change, utilizing segregation indexes and a variety of other measures derived from census data. In 1971,…

In this paper, the author offers an expanded explanation of just what difference sibling position should make, and then subjects this reasoning to a test that seems to meet all of the objections raised about empirical work linking sibling position to achievement. More specifically, the author (1) lays out a simple proximate explanation of the way…

This is the second report concerned with the analysis of a young child's spoken French. It focuses on the study of the entire corpus of 33 hour sessions occurring approximately once a week and ranging from the time the subject was 25 months old to 38 months old. Chapter 1 is devoted to introductory remarks. Chapter 2 contains a dictionary of the…

The objectives of the program were to develop personnel capable of (1) upgrading existing educational curricula through research, (2) seeking better educational practices through empirical knowledge in the use of research techniques to improve classroom instruction, (3) applying research methods to provide insights into sociological problems…

This review of current attitudes and procedures in the study of philology in graduate schools reveals problems contributing to a weakening of programs in classics and medieval studies. Departmental rivalry and compartmentalization of subject matter among philology, history, and social studies are severely criticized and serve as the stimulus for…

This is the statistical and methodological appendix to a report on the first part of a two phase community action program (CAP) research project. Construction of variables is covered, with attention to changes in income and minority group composition of social service agencies, increased interagency cooperation, publicity, scope of service, social…

The work completed to date on the development and validation of a procedure for assessing the micro-environments of preschool children is summarized. It was speculated that the lack of evidence that compensatory programs facilitate developmental changes in children might be due to actual lack of influence by the programs, to the subtlety of the…

This paper presents a broad overview of research on the impact of college on students. The ways in which such research has been done, and the underlying theories and analytical strategies are outlined. Some generalizations based on integration of available studies are presented first, followed by a discussion of the difficulties involved in…

The monograph presents the findings of a decade long research project on the cognitive learning of children. Several other areas of general significance involved in the work are also treated. These include: (1) the importance of the work to the development of basic learning theory; (2) certain developments in methodology and in a philosophy of…

Twenty-three lectures by Charlton Laird, read at institutes and conventions over the past 25 years, deal with such areas in language, literature, and composition as "Trouble in Linguistic Paradise;""A Simpleminded Look at Grammar and Language;""Goldilocks and the Three or More Rhetorics;""More About Creative Writing;""The Case for Casebooks: One…

This study was conducted in an attempt to analyze selected aspects of the social milieu surrounding elementary school children. The relationship between the two techniques (one semi-projective, one verbal) used in measuring this social environment was also of interest. Fourth and fifth grade students' affective reactions to the following stimuli…

Objectives of this project were to identify and catalog all existing reports on contracted evaluation studies by the Community Action Program (CAP) evaluation branch and the various program offices; to analyze a sample of contracted evaluation studies in terms of their adequacy as research projects; to assess a sample of CAP inhouse evaluations;…

This paper argues that traditional techniques of content analysis which have been applied to classroom verbal interaction studies fail to account for certain types of implicit information, and presents a technique, called "reconstruction," that provides for the inclusion of such information in a content analysis. It is argued that if…