Information is presented about education in North Carolina. Data are included in the following areas: (1) population; (2) enrollment and attendance; (3) faculty numbers and salaries; (4) general financial resources; (5) governmental revenue; (6) school revenue; (7) governmental expenditures and debt; (8) school expenditures; and (9) miscellaneous…

The monograph reports the results of a survey of senior administrators at 364 colleges and universities to identify trends and changes taking place in academic and administrative practices. Special attention was given to college and university faculty due to significant shortages predicted for the next decade in this labor market. The structure of…

In this study on financial aid to students in higher education, descriptive data are provided on differences found among states, institutional sectors, and income groups with respect to student costs and sources of funding, the reduction in cost of attendance due to the distribution of aid, and the resulting amount of overmet or undermet financial…

Demographic data, opinions, and projections reported by freshmen entering the University of South Carolina (USC) during fall 1978 are reported. A questionnaire developed by the American Council on Education was administered to 80 percent of the entering class as part of a continuing national study. The data are divided into the categories of…

The first in a series of reports by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, this report demonstrates the positive relationship between reduced class size and pupil achievement. The researchers collected about 80 studies that yielded over 700 comparisons of the achievement of smaller and larger classes. The results showed…

WITH THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1962 THE UNITED STATES EMBARKED ON A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT HAS EXISTED IN WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS SINCE WORLD WAR 2. IN ALL THE EUROPEAN NATIONS STUDIED, RETRAINING PROGRAMS ARE A PERMANENT INSTRUMENT OF LABOR MARKET POLICY, AS USEFUL IN TIGHT LABOR MARKETS AS IN PERIODS OF UNEMPLOYMENT.…

The Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) is a federally supported compensatory education program. In this paper the following questions are addressed: (1) Is the Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) worth Federal support? (2) Would the Federal government be better able to achieve similar educational objectives by supporting other…

Based upon data derived from U.S. Office of Education biennial reports, this pamphlet presents statistical information on the changing status of the one-teacher school (1918-36) for purposes of determining the extent to which these schools have been eliminated, the rate of that elimination in recent years, and the trends of the future.…

The benefits and problems of comparing faculty salaries are evaluated. The primary source of information for this evaluation is the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP's) summer Bulletin. The problems listed include: (1) institutional variations in the methodology of data collection; (2) the conversion of 12-month salaries to a…

This study was designed to test four groups of pupils entering the second grade in the York County School Board area--two groups in open schools and two in traditional schools--chosen because of the similarity in the schools' size and location and in the socioeconomic status of the pupils. The students were tested once each year for three years…

The relationships of selected high school courses to achievement in technical and professional courses in industrial arts teacher education programs were studied, with particular attention to students of high, medium and lower scholastic ability. Records of 273 students who earned degrees in education from five Missouri State Colleges between…

To gain statistical information as to the success of the Developmental Mathematics course (Math 01) at Danville Community College, data were collected on 77 students who completed the course between the winter quarter 1970-71 and the fall quarter 1971-72. The grades of this group in six subsequent mathematics courses were compared with those of…

In this study, a descriptive summary is presented of the student population enrolled in member colleges of the Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri. The profile data in this study are the result of a student questionnaire administered to students attending district community colleges during fall semester 1973. Of the total…

The options selected by secondary school graduates with varying academic backgrounds, the intellective characteristics of these students, and their completion/noncompletion records were investigated. A comparison was made of 229 male vocational training (VT) graduates and 200 male college preparatory (CP) graduates with respect to demographic…

This paper discusses the use of student performance data as an input to the last phase of a needs-assessment evaluation. The weaknesses for this purpose of national pupil norms are examined and it is suggested that improved data is required to reflect the many differences that exist between schools. Specifically, two changes are proposed: the…