A review of developments on the national and state level, including statements by President Ford, national polls on school integration of the public at large as well as of secondary school students, women in the professions, enrollment at womens' colleges, catholic education in the black community, a survey of Chicago public school principals, and…

No single factor will determine the future quality of life for all residents in Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states more than whether enough adults earn college degrees and technical certificates. Gone is the dominance of agriculture and manufacturing in most SREB states. These states now must compete in a knowledge economy, but are…

The United States is extremely diverse in the racial and ethnic backgrounds of its citizens, which include whites, blacks, Native Americans, Alaskans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. Such a diverse combination of different racial populations makes the characteristics of accessibility and diversity in American higher education important.…

The purpose of this action study was to examine teachers' beliefs about the causes of stress and burnout in a rural Arkansas school district in 2004. One hundred thirty teachers of all grade levels of the school district were sampled with a Likert survey of 45 items. Subscales of the survey include stressor associated with administration,…

This paper is a description of the development of a new educational leadership program at Austin Peay State University. From inception to implementation, the program used Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards, a tool for assessing programs in educational administrator preparation. The goal of the program was to embed the…

Rather than promote access, college admissions and financial aid processes often create a series of barriers that the poorest student must overcome to get to college. The Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis (CHEPA) of the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California directed a three-year research initiative,…

In May 1997, USAID's Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE) launched the initiative, "Focus on Girls: An Evaluation of USAID Programs and Policies in Education." The effort included five Impact Evaluations, including this study in Guinea (Guatemala, Malawi, Nepal, and Pakistan were the others). This Impact Evaluation…

This transcript reproduces a Department of Education\College Board-sponsored discussion on ways to expand advanced-placement (AP) opportunities in high schools. The document contains the comments of panelists and presenters who described promising practices and strategies for preparing students for success, preparing teachers to lead instruction,…

This transcript reproduces a Department of Education/College Board-sponsored discussion on ways to expand advanced-placement (AP) opportunities in high schools. The deliberations opened with a presentation by Terry Peterson, Senior Advisor to Education Secretary Richard Riley, in which he focused on the importance of AP courses for minority and…

This report summarizes interviews with Washington state administrators, teachers, staff, students, parents, and community members at eight public high schools. Respondents identified several common themes regarding strategies to improve learning, the impact of state standardized tests, options and strategies for making learning more relevant, and…

The Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) underscore both the mandate and the challenge of assuring that English Language Learners (ELLs) achieve the same high standards of performance that are expected of their native English speaking peers. The intent indeed is laudable: states, districts, schools, and teachers…

Discusses both three basic strategies, preferences, allocational priorities, and incentives--and four principles of positive discrimination--compensation and rectification, appropriate meritocratic criteria, the development of the discriminated, and fairness. (JM)

The new policy for higher education is bound to bring about a deterioration in opportunity, but assessment is difficult because the paper itself is too vague argues the author. (Editor/RK)

Presents the United States Office of Education's Trio programs, which gives educational opportunities to thousands of young people who otherwise would remain isolated from higher learning achievement because of economic, cultural, or educational handicaps. (Author)

Examines the education of the handicapped child in the urban community from a legal point of view, finding that at last the courts are beginning to sanction the necessity of providing an appropriate education for all children, regardless of their physical, mental or emotional handicap. (Author/JM)