Education statistics are rarely neutral; those who collect and analyze them have different purposes. In this article, Bracey discusses several principles of data interpretation to help educators avoid falling into statistical traps. For example, because such reports as A Nation At Risk contain many "selected, spun, distorted, and even manufactured…

Current UK government policy is to promote mediation as a way of avoiding family court proceedings and there is a risk, therefore, that welfare report-writing practice may receive less critical attention than it merits. A largely unstudied aspect of this practice is the significance given by practitioners to the child's age. More widely, across a…

The National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE), consisting of a national commission, an advisory board, and a research team at New York University, aims to engage realistic and actionable discussions about the mobility and educational opportunities for AAPIs and how distinctions of race, ethnicity,…

An investigation into high level event monitoring within the scope of a well-known multimedia application, HyperCard--a program on the Macintosh computer, is carried out. A monitoring system is defined as a system which automatically monitors usage of some activity and gathers statistics based on what is has observed. Monitor systems can give the…

This report describes clients who were served by the Washington State Department of Social Health Services (DSHS) from July, 1991, through June, 1992. The 1992 Washington State Legislative District Boundaries were used. The report provides data on the following: (1) how many unduplicated clients from each Legislative District used each division…

The Census of Service Industries, which is conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in years ending with 2 or 7, collects information on the number of organizations and selected financial measures in both performing and non-performing arts disciplines. This report presents and analyzes the 1987 data in chart format. The aim is to provide a view…

An approach to introduce statistics in psychology to the beginning student in an appealing and interest-provoking manner is to discuss the correlation of statistical values or contrasts in values. (Author/ND)

Article provided some recent statistics on educational levels completed by adults 25 and over in 1974 and compared them to those of 1940. (RK)

Author surveyed how far comprehensive reorganisation has progressed in Wales. (Editor/RK)

This document is designed to fill major information voids in the field of adoption and to provide prospective adoptive parents with reliable data on which to base decisions. The factbook contains four major types of new information: (1) a frank discussion of the issues concerning adoption -- including costs; tax regulations; transracial adoption;…

Meta-analyses of the hypotheses that relationships exist between play and problem solving, and between play and creativity, were conducted. The data set for the meta-analyses included studies designed to investigate the relationship between play and fluency or originality, or between play and problem-solving behavior. The meta-analyses of…

Based on an annual survey, this special factsheet provides answers to frequently asked questions about hearing impaired children and youth. Information includes incidence; makeup of the hearing impaired population by sex, age and ethnic background; time of onset of loss; degree of hearing loss; leading cause of hearing loss; percentages of hearing…

The paper examines the nature and challenges of a triple threat in childhood--economic poverty, limited and non-English proficiency, and a handicapping condition. Special emphasis is placed on the problems of Asian and Pacific Americans. Difficulties in establishing the precise scope of the problem are noted, including limited definitions and…

Several developments in the use of the new method of meta-analysis give cause for optimism. First, different meta-analysts are doing work in the same areas, leading to increased confidence in meta-analytic results. Second, meta-analysts are beginning to include raw data in their reports, which helps readers pinpoint the exact studies that lead to…