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Davis, Benjamin G. – 1978
Fresno County comprises Region 4 of the California Migrant Education Program. The area enjoys a low 6.9% unemployment rate compared to the state average of 7.83%. An analysis of movement patterns of migrant students from, to, and within the state showed that 348 migrant students entered the region from another state in 1977; Texas, Arizona and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
ORR, CALVIN R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND NEEDS OF ADULT MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND TO DETERMINE THE EDUCATIONAL TREATMENT OF THESE NEEDS. THE STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION OF ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS PLUS THE COLLEGES OF EDUCATION OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AND…
Descriptors: Education, Mexican Americans, Migrant Adult Education, Migrant Problems
Download full textReyes (J.A.) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1978
Major components of a study conducted in 1977 and 1978 were: (1) an examination of existing literature on migrant transportation; (2) collection of pertinent empirical data from federal, state, and migrant work camp records; and (3) vehicle counts and observation at 32 selected locations in 11 destination states in the western, midwestern, and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Farm Labor, Federal Regulation
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1980
This booklet contains sample lessons and learning materials from the countries of Asia and Oceania for teaching population education in social studies. The booklet is one of a series of six, each of which brings out population education concepts as part of a particular subject area. The subject areas treated in the other booklets are home…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Schwarzweller, Harry K. – 1964
The project was designed to follow up a specific population of young men from a relatively isolated ruralarea of eastern Kentucky who had been out of eighth grade for 10 years. The sample was drawn from enrollment lists for the school year 1949-50, obtained from 11 counties. The objective of the study was to investigate differences between migrant…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Family Mobility, Family Relationship, Males
Gossman, Charles S.; And Others – 1967
The 2 objectives of this study are to provide answers and guidelines to problems faced by educational administrators, planners, and government officials; and to contribute to existing scientific knowledge concerning human migration. The basic data in the study were derived from a survey of migration of college students conducted in 1963 by the…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Colleges, Enrollment, Enrollment Influences
Davis, Benjamin G. – 1976
Since migration is strongly influenced by economic variables, an economic model was developed to identify, locate, and track migrant and seasonal farmworkers as they move throughout the United States. Focusing on the Florida-based migrant agricultural workers who migrated at least once during the past five years, the model included the following…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Economic Factors, Labor Economics, Migrant Workers
Ostolaza, Jose Luis – 1975
Investigating the distinction between submetropolitanization and decentralization of industry, the "Datafile for National Sample of Nonmetropolitan Counties" (a 10 percent national sample, involving 205 counties) was employed to test the following hypotheses: (1) the nearer the county to a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA), the higher…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Demography, Distance, Employment Patterns
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1968
A brief history of Indian tribes in the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa is presented. Discussion centers around individual Indian tribes which are representative of early and modern Indian life in these states. Native tribes, nomadic tribes, and emigrant tribes are considered. A section devoted to Indians in these states today offers an…
Descriptors: American Indians, Collective Settlements, Cultural Background, Educational Practices
Tarver, James D. – 1969
Census data was utilized to determine the net effect of internal migration between 1955 and 1960 upon the educational status of the population of the South 25 to 64 years of age in 1960. The major findings of the study are as follows: (1) the median educational attainment of the Southern population was not greatly altered through the interchange…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Blacks, Census Figures
Afendras, Evangelos A. – 1969
An attempt is made to develop a method for the presentation of temporal and spatial sociolinguistic data in order to study phenomena of bilingual interaction. Domain of language usage and other sociocultural variables are abstracted from extant sources, normalized and compared with the aim of studying sociolinguistic variation, its reflection on…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Culture Contact, Diachronic Linguistics, Diglossia
Spiegelman, Robert G. – 1966
Agglomeration--the clustering of people, businesses, or structures within an area--is investigated for two purposes: (1) defining the nature of agglomeration and erecting a suitable agglomeration theory, and (2) suggesting further research. These two objectives are seen as being vital to help improve the economic well-being of rural people by…
Descriptors: Economics, Industry, Migration Patterns, Models
Lee, Anne S.; Bowles, Gladys K. – 1974
Implicit or explicit national governmental actions designed to perpetuate, change conditions, maintain the status quo, or introduce change (although not designed for that purpose) are known as policy. Some of these actions relate directly to population distribution from early land grants to present urban renewal and rural development activities.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Government Role, Human Services, Individual Characteristics
Taylor, Alton L. – 1973
This paper describes the migration patterns and post-graduation activities of University of Virginia resident students as compared with nonresident students. Of the 1,439 students awarded a bachelor's degree in June and August 1972, 948 completed and returned a questionnaire mailed to them about 6 months after graduation. The questionnaire…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Graduate Study, Graduate Surveys
Held, Philip J. – 1973
The movement and location patterns of recent medical school graduates is analyzed within the context of overall demographic, social and economic changes occurring within the U.S. Special emphasis is given to the role of medical training institutions and State financing policies of medical schools. Estimates are provided of the number of physicians…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Employment Patterns, Health Occupations, Higher Education
