This study seeks an answer to one broad question, "Do black children who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly different (either higher or lower) from black children who attend racially segregated schools?" To facilitate this, the study not only examines the…

The military orientations of rural East Texas black and white high school students interviewed in 1966 were very similar; those of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth also did not differ much. Since then, status projections of Texas youth have been extended by adding a sample of Mexican American sophomores (1966) to compare with the East Texas…

Since 1966 racial/ethnic data has been collected annually from all public elementary and secondary schools in New York State. Such data is presented in eight tables. Table 1 gives the 1973-74 racial/ethnic distribution of public school students for the State's major school districts (Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers), for the…

This report is the response to a request from the United States Commission on Civil Rights that a research program be designed to accomplish two tasks: (1) to measure the effectiveness of different desegregation strategies in providing equality of educational experiences to black, Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, and Anglo students; (2) to provide…

During 1974 approximately 13 percent of the 2.8 million students enrolled in Texas schools represented a concentrated effort to serve educationally disadvantaged pupils with the greatest needs on campuses eligible for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I funds. Of these funds, 75 percent was expended for instructional activities…

The study is part of a research effort to provide instruments for identifying the aptitudes and abilities most useful to the Navy in Mental Level 4 personnel, and to identify duties most likely to be successfully performed by such personnel. The report describes an interim analysis of a biographical information form developed for predicting…

This paper reports a study of conformity reactions of white and black children to the unanimous and incorrect judgment of children from either their own or other ethnic groups. Experimental groups comprised four subjects of the same sex and grade level. Groups representing all Negro were used; all variables were completely crossed. The subjects…

A study was made of 165 persons (largely underclass) during training at a job training center in middle Michigan and about one year later. Three kinds of influences were examined: opportunities, subculture, and training. Research was exploratory and involved comparison of 37 Chippewa trainees and 113 poor whites and a small number of Mexicans and…

This is an interim report of the second full year of the "Fifteen Point Plan." Although majority of comparisons between groups shows no significant statistical differences, differentials in achievement may become more noticeable as the program effects are reinforced with time, and through cumulative experience. From data analyzed after…

In this book the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and the Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, present the papers of the Twelfth Annual College and University Self-Study Institute. The purpose of institutes such as this has been to provide a forum for researchers and…

This study explores factors related to the transition from high school to college in the Kansas City metropolitan region. Determinants of college attendance such as scholastic achievement, financial resources, socioeconomic status (SES), school climate, and race were studied. It is shown that the composition of high schools is correlated with the…

The purpose of this small study is to describe and consider the perceptions of various individuals and groups--particularly teachers and students involved in or familiar with the general situation at Southeast High School (a pseudonym) and the work of the Grievance Committee in particular. The study was conducted by interviewing several key staff…

This report incorporates all the major conference events of the 18th Annual All Ohio Guidance Conference which had as its theme, "Guidance for the Now Student". The keynote address by Dr. Anthony Riccio, entitled "Guidance and the Destination Crisis" is concerned with the role of counselors and counselor educators of the near future. He presents…

This study of attitudes of elementary school teachers in the Minneapolis Public School System revealed a marked discrepancy between attitudes of successful and non-successful teachers of lower class black children. An analysis of a 186 item questionnaire showed that the effective teachers displayed empathy and commitment to teach disadvantaged…

The Costerville Plans Project (Costerville being a pseudonym), sponsored by the Costerville Public Schools, Lincoln University, and the University of Pennsylvania, is concerned with the complex process of decision-making among black adolescents and with the influences of social change, counselor, teacher, and parent. The purpose of this pilot…