This report describes important features of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SM-MUSD), providing background information as the district establishes its goals. The analysis shows that SM-MUSD's total revenues are greater than those of similar districts and Los Angeles County on a per-pupil basis but below the revenues of…

The monograph presents a set of social and economic indicators developed for each of the 118 counties in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah which comprise the joint Far West Lab/SWRL laboratory service regions. The objective of developing and mapping these indicators was to delineate major similarities and differences among these counties in…

Following the federal court's Ann Arbor (Michigan) decision regarding the education of children who speak black English, the National Institute of Education and the Ann Arbor Public Schools cosponsored a national conference on the subject, the proceedings of which are summarized in this paper. Following an introduction, the paper provides…

Analyzes the economic performance of all United States counties for 1970, 1980, and the mid 1980s and compares Appalachian counties with all counties in the nation using population, income, unemployment, and urbanization to measure different aspects of economic change. Includes data tables and maps. (JHZ)

This document is a report on the educational resources of the Hartford (Connecticut) Public Schools and the disparities between the Hartford Public Schools and other school districts. The report uses a reanalysis of existing publicly available data, including published reports of the Connecticut State Department of Education and other state and…