Analyzes the impact of the Voting Rights Act on black voter registration in Mississippi. Concludes that the future of black politics is highly uncertain in Mississippi. If the movement on the part of whites to disenfranchise blacks succeeds, and intimidation at the polls continues, advances made in the early 1970s could be seriously undermined.…

Between 1983 and 1990, the United States experienced one of its longest periods of economic expansion since the Second World War. The 1983-95 period has been a time of fundamental economic change, with wide variations by state and region caused by industrial restructuring, worker migration, and immigration. (JOW)

A survey, the "School and the Education of All Students Scale: Concerns and Incentives Subscales," was given to educators and administrators (N=558) in a Colorado school district during 1994-95. Educators' primary concerns about inclusion were time pressure for teaching all students well and proper training for managing challenging…

Reports on a Kentucky survey exploring attitudes about AIDS. Rural residents were less informed about AIDS, less empathic towards persons with AIDS, and less tolerant of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle than respondents in small towns and cities. Younger, better educated people were better informed. Contains 21 references. (DHP)

Special education directors in Colorado, where the profession requires separate certification, were asked to rank 16 competency statements that comprise the state-approved endorsement program for special educators. Results are analyzed by agency type, size, and population density, and their implications are discussed. (MSE)

Two surveys of educators examined the status of gifted programs in Connecticut during 1989 to 1991. The 1991 results indicate that increasing numbers of programs for the gifted are experiencing jeopardy resulting from the state's fiscal crisis. The number of program eliminations increased by 63% and program reductions rose by 11%. (Author/JDD)

Discusses the results of a survey of 1,268 adoptive parents in California. Found that postplacement contact with biological parents was common in this sample and that adoptive parents, with some exceptions, seemed cautiously comfortable with such contact. (Author/MDM)

Describes a study conducted by the Education Commission of the States to investigate effective school improvement strategies and the conditions under which these strategies work. Highlights include instructional school improvement programs; elements of successful schoolwide strategies; state and local contexts; and the relationship of this study…

Article identifies problems of itinerant teachers of deaf students in rural Oregon and reports on a survey of 98 teachers of the deaf in Oregon. The study found 66 percent of teachers were working in itinerant positions, that 77 percent had not received any training for the itinerant role, and that 71 percent have some doubts about their…

Of 671 Washington companies responding to a survey, 64 companies employed a total of 166 handicapped individuals. The proportion of urban and rural employers hiring handicapped people did not differ significantly, but proportionally more large employers had handicapped employees. Proportionally, more public administration, transportation, and…

Responses from 535 of 844 nurses to a telephone survey found that 359 desired academic credit for continuing education courses. Interest was greatest among full-time hospital, and rural workers. Those interested in undergraduate credit preferred independent study; those interested in graduate credit were more receptive to the use of technology.…

Summarizes information presented in the American Association on Mental Retardation's 1998 publication, "State of the States in Developmental Disabilities" (Braddock, Hemp, Parish, and Westrich), which reports data on the implementation of managed care for persons with developmental disabilities. A table summarizes information about…

A survey of 704 public school superintendents in Ohio yielded responses from 384. Of those, 255 lived in their school districts, and 66 percent reported having children in the schools where they worked. The advantage to living in the district, according to the superintendents, is accessibility to the community. On the down side, superintendents…

The development of large-scale livestock facilities has become a controversial issue in many regions of the U.S. in recent years. In this research, rural-urban differences in familiarity and concern about large-scale livestock facilities among Ohioans is examined as well as the relationship of social distance from agriculture and trust in risk…

As Congress considers reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 a fundamental question in the debate is whether to continue to increase federal government management authority over education or to restore citizen ownership of America's schools. Testing requirements in NCLB are having unintended consequences: by requiring…