This paper uses the data from the 1966 Educational Opportunities Survey (EOS) to investigate regional and racial inequalities in education by applying a definition of inequalities that incorporates both school inputs and educational outcomes. Inequalities in school inputs are weighted by their importance for educational outputs, in order to…

This bibliography on busing pertains to selected items available in the Center for Urban Education library, and is largely comprised of journal articles. Those reports and documents that are in the ERIC system have been so identified by way of ED numbers; call numbers for these and other items have also been provided for location of the material.…

This anthology includes newly published essays by Daniel U. Levine, Robert J. Havighurst, and J. McVicker Hunt, two previously unpublished reports from the National Study of American Indian Education, and a new guide to resource centers. In addition, 35 papers by 55 contributors concerned with educating disadvantaged and culturally different…

This innovative study guide provides individualized occupational guidance for students in the secondary grades by means of autoinstructional reading materials covering career choice and career preparation. The student is asked to answer certain questions which narrow down his interests and qualifications, and on the basis of the answers he is…

In October 1970, the Commission on Civil Rights published a large-scale study of "The Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort." Based on an evaluation of more than 40 departments and agencies with significant civil rights responsibilities, the Commission found that enforcement was characterized largely by inaction, lack of coordination,…

In view of the fact that the issue of the transportation of pupils in the public school for purposes of desegregation has now become politically and emotionally charged, the Metropolitan Applied Research Center staff decided to collect and analyze the facts on the extent, the nature, and the consequences of transportation of children to schools in…

GUIDELINES FOR INITIATING A RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION UNIT WITHIN A SCHOOL WERE PRESENTED. THE PROGRAM FOR ESTABLISHING THE UNITS WAS DEVELOPED TO (1) SECURE MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING BY STUDENTS (2) ENCOURAGE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT, AND (3) PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH, CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION, AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. A…

The Minnesota Private College Research Foundation - Indian Education Project (MPCRF-IEP) provided additional financial support for programs that were unique, developmental, and Indian in their approach to expansion of higher educational opportunities for Native American students. Funding allocated by the Project was made on a dollar for dollar…

Analyzing the effects of higher education accessibility, the present state of difficulties re: accessibility, and the functioning of various means of accessibility compensation, this paper presents the development of Polish education in terms of the social, political, and economic systems operative during the inter-war period (1918-39) and the…

This book, based on an invitational conference held in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1975, includes an edited record of that conference as well as additional papers which were developed by participants as a result of their conference experience. Twelve papers are included: "Public Education as the Great Equalizer", Fred M. Hechinger; "Types of…

This is a report of a pilot study performed by the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) of the New York State Education Department. The study investigated the post college experiences of HEOP graduates and dropouts at three institutions in Western New York: Canisius College, Buffalo; Rosary Hill College, Snyder; and Niagara University. The…

The Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) program, operated by the St. Louis County Juvenile Court, Clayton, Missouri, provides career orientation and counseling, high school equivalency and remedial education, and placement and follow-up to deliquent school dropouts age sixteen and older. Community organizations help to promote client status…

Examines religious traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Western Christianity--to see how women were taught and what knowledge was transmitted to them. Notes that women have always had some access to religious knowledge in informal ways but were excluded from formal education once sacred knowledge became transmitted in an…

The panel reviewed five efforts to integrate education into the workplace through cooperation between private industry and government, use of university research resources to save jobs while providing students with hands-on training, and community and school joint preparation of teenagers for social and economic participation. (NEC)

This report compares actual performance with the projected levels of performance set out in National Council on Disability's (NCD) annual performance plan. The report shows a positive link between the allocated resources and NCD's performance. NCD's assessment review showed that it was successful in meeting its goals and achieving its intended…