A study examined data from literature and from three surveys of high school students to analyze the equity of the way in which high schools assign students to the vocational track and the effectiveness of vocational education in preparing students for work. Data revealed that while students' junior high abilities, achievement, and curricular…

The National Multicultural Seminar on Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Populations was initiated in response to concern about the root causes of mental retardation especially in mild forms which tend to be more prevalent and more devastating among persons living in depressed, disrupted, and impoverished environments. Nineteen papers…

Throughout their history, most black institutions of higher education have struggled against debilitating circumstances: antagonistic communities and legislatures, poverty, poorly prepared students, competition from white colleges, and program duplication with white institutions. In the period of serious desegregation at the elementary and…

In previous studies of ethnic group bias in intelligence test items, the question of bias has been confounded with ability differences between the ethnic group samples compared. The present study is based on a conditional probability model in which an unbiased item is defined as one where the probability of a correct response to an item is the…

Data are presented concerning the enrollments of Black and Chicano graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California at Berkeley. Some problems, particularly those stemming from academic decision-making at the undergraduate level, are noted. A number of problematic academic decisions that are (were) likely to affect negatively…

The Texas Environmental Adaptation Measure (TEAM), a four-part instrument, is designed to assess children's adaptive behavior as it relates to their sociocultural and emotional environments. TEAM is intended to determine the eligibility of these children for special education classes and to provide information for individualizing their…

Issues of daily life experience from a child's perspective were examined in the Spring 1976 as the Children's Time Study interviewed 764 preadolescents (aged 11-12) from Oakland, California and their mothers. The interviewers explored children's use of time outside the school by focusing on five domains of time use: (1) parent-child interactions;…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: confessional rhetoric in the poetry of Anne Sexton, rhetorical criticism, the Hippocratic oath, messages communicated through team sports as a medium of social interaction, the silent…

This paper examines the kinds of information and guidance that social scientists have contributed to school desegregation efforts and discusses some of the problems that remain to be overcome if desegregation is to be equitable. It is argued that research on desegregation has failed to address the important issues and that quantitative, panoramic…

Housing and social conditions in urban America suggest a major shift of the inner city poor to the older suburban neighborhoods. This paper explores that anticipated massive population exchange and suggests ways to measure its effect on the schooling process. The concern here is that thousands of poor city dwellers will relocate to the suburbs and…

THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE USE OF AUDIOVISUAL STIMULUS MATERIALS TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL-RELATED ATTITUDES OF 128 NEGRO AND 88 NON-NEGRO DISADVANTAGED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. EACH SUBJECT WAS INDIVIDUALLY SHOWN FOUR EXPERIMENTAL SLIDES WHICH WERE ACCOMPANIED BY INTERVIEWS WITH SIMILARLY DISADVANTAGED NEGRO YOUTHS AND A YOUNG…

A six-week biracial summer institute for school personnel and a follow-up one-day symposium were devoted to increasing understanding of problems accompanying desegregation, changes in race relations patterns, and ways of solving psychological-sociological problems posed by desegregation. Another concern was to develop acceptance and understanding…

The findings and implications of doctoral research on non-urban, low income school children are summarized. Studies were the language patterns of white first graders, and the attitudes, cognitive and affective variables, and academic achievement of Negro and white fifth and sixth graders. Poverty rather than race was found to be the significant…

The author proposes that residential segregation is presently one of the greatest national problems. Suburban "white nooses" surround the cities, in which are concentrated the swelling nonwhite population. Former Federal mortgage policies gave preference to "modal" families--young, upwardly mobile couples with children, and…

Using data on ninth-grade Negro students in the Metropolitan Northeast collected in the Office of Education "Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey" (Coleman Report), this study investigated (1) the degree to which each of five situational factors distinguishes between segregated and desegregated school situations and (2) the extent…