The author takes issue with an unnamed supervisory educator who opposes bilingual education. Wilson points out that to avoid wasting human resources it is essential that better education be provided for Mexican-Americans in order to cut down the repeating of grades and dropping out by students whose "home language" is not English.…

A comparison of national statistics on health services available in rural and urban areas of the United States from 1935-1966 revealed a relatively lower supply of health services per capita in rural areas and significant geographic differences in the supply of trained health personnel. It was shown that medical expenditures per family tended to…

A national study of the socialclass composition of 490 schools in 41 large cities is reported. The emphasis is on the social class composition of schools rather than individual pupils. The dependent variables in this research on social stratification deal mainly with behavior, attitudes, and attributes of the key teachers and principals who can…

A study was made of factors in mature female curriculum planning in Tucson, Arizona, vocational institutions. The study included a community facilities inventory, employer needs and attitudes, needs and interests of women 35 and older, and determination of how well the needs of industry could be fulfilled by community assets and human resources. A…

Analyses of biographical data on the 851 lecturers at three senior service (war) colleges in 1964-65 and the topics of their lectures provide the basis for a discussion of how these institutions perform the function of educating higher military officers for policy roles. The colleges studied were: the National War College, the Industrial College…

This paper provides an assessment of socioeconomic and political trends during the 1970's. The data support those scholars who predicted that the the socioeconomic condition of blacks would deteriorate in the sixties and early seventies. Evidence shown indicates that a combination of racism and economics supports an educational system that is not…

The hypothesis of this study is that education will free an individual to move from one social stratum to another. The population studied consisted of a selected sample of 357 graduates of the 1976 class of Tupelo High School in Mississippi. A personal interview using a 19 question form was conducted with each member of the class. A detailed study…

The findings of a national study of black suicide are reported in this paper. A suitable explanation is sought for the increasing suicide rate among young blacks. The possibility of a link between suicide and the weakening of black community and family ties is explored. Specifically, the isolating effects of inmigration and living alone are…

Three hundred fifth grade pupils in an urban school district and in three rural schools in Tennessee participated in a study of relationships among attitudes toward reading, reading achievement, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex. Each pupil was rated on the Heathington Attitude Scale and the Hollingshead Two-Factor Index of Social Position and…

Presenting an account of the 1975 activities and interests of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO is an organization which was initiated in 1970 to serve as both a catalytic and unifying force in the American Indian community), this annual report briefly describes the following: the need for AIO; facts regarding the socioeconomic status of…

This study examined student attitudes toward reading and evaluated the effects of grade level, reading achievement, sex, race, and social status upon reading attitudes. Fifteen classrooms, consisting of 260 fourth and sixth grade students, participated in the study. After individual reading achievement scores were determined for each student, two…

The purpose of this paper is to identify patterns of performance which might yield insight into findings concerning mathematics achievement of Chicano students. The Chicano student populations of these studies were identified and restricted by the following criteria: Spanish surname, of Mexican descent, language (bilingual, Spanish-English;…

The problem under investigation was to determine the differential effects of three types of treatment on students' test-taking skills. The study also investigated whether test-taking instruction would result in significant mean test score gains on a standardized reading test for white and black, high and low socioeconomic status (SES) third-grade…

Variations in the level of female political participation were examined in the context of the "standard" model of political participation (higher socioeconomic status, urbanism, living at society's center, increased participation) and the "decline of community" model (decreased group membership, increased mobility, decline of…

The correlation between educational aspiration and educational achievement was investigated in 6 Southern states via a longitudinal study (1965-1972). Approximately 1,200 rural youth, stratified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status, were contacted when sophomores, when seniors, and when 4 years beyond high school graduation. Findings revealed…