Selected current data on both small and large public schools in an 11-county area of southeast Minnesota are summarized to help school districts in decision making since proposed legislation would reduce the state's 438 school districts to 92. The survey instrument, included in the report, was sent to all public school superintendents in the…

The Community Involvement Program (CIP) carried out in a grade 12 class in each of three Etobicoke secondary schools in the Province of Ontario was evaluated. The data analyses at the end of the first year of the program indicated that the CIP had achieved its major objectives of: (1) increased knowledge of community and social agencies; (2)…

Summer school and fall enrollments in Pennsylvania during 1975 are reported and compared with fall enrollments in the United States, 1972-1975. Statistics are offered for: total enrollments; enrollments in branch campuses and other centers; lower division undergraduate, non-bachelor's degree-credit upper-division, first-professional, graduate, and…

This 1978 report, prepared from data supplied by Educational Research Service, Inc., deals specifically with 1977-78 comparative data about salaries paid to principals and assistant principals in approximately 1,146 public school districts. Section 1 compares the lowest and highest 1977-78 salaries paid to principals and assistant principals,…

This report describes the extent of black-white classroom segregation in desegregated elementary, middle, and high schools; compares the degree of segregation for blacks, whites, and Hispanics; compares the degree of resegregation in major regions of the nation, and investigates the relationship between the degree of school desegregation and…

Due to the expansion of cooperative education programs, critical issues facing them were examined. The issues as perceived by cooperative education directors were identified, along with their relative importance as perceived by directors and their immediate supervisors. The study aimed to determine whether differences exist between directors and…

Salary differences between full-time male and female faculty members who hold a doctoral degree were studied at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1979. The full-time instructional and research faculty having the rank of professor, associate professor, or assistant professor who possess a doctoral degree totaled 1,199 (1,010 males and…

Findings from the evaluation of the AB 3059 alternative child care programs are presented in this report. (AB 3059 child care programs were mandated by the California legislature in 1976 with the goals of assessing features that might reduce child care costs, ensuring maximum parental choice among facilities, addressing unmet child care needs…

In 1979, the Kansas Association of Community Colleges conducted a survey of students who had previously attended one of the state's 19 community colleges to determine their characteristics (i.e., sex, race, age, full-/part-time classification, and residence); academic characteristics (i.e., previous enrollment, reasons for college attendance,…

Approximately 700 Mexican American and Anglo students in grades 9, 10, and 11, who were identified as having superior mathematical ability, were surveyed to identify the factors affecting mathematics participation, determine the relative importance of these factors, and determine their stability over time. Five variables were studied: cognitive…

The results of standardized norm-referenced achievement tests via the state mandated California Assessment Program (CAP) and the Districtwide Testing Program for the 1979-80 school year are summarized. California Assessment Program tests were administered statewide to all third, sixth and twelfth grade students. The nationally standardized…

Information on trends in the characteristics of faculty at Maryland public institutions of higher education is presented, based primarily on the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) Form 2300.3 (Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty). Five major areas of consideration are as follows: (1) the number…

Bayesian data analytic procedures were used to assess the effects of a new undergraudate advising program designed to focus on students who do not initially declare a major field of study. Past research has shown that these students tend to graduate at a low rate, relative to those who do declare majors. It was hypothesized that these students…

A study was conducted to (1) examine the relation of syntactic complexity to mode of discourse in the writing of eighth and twelfth grade students; (2) determine to what extent variations observed were related to grade level, socioeconomic status, and race; and (3) determine to what extent the syntactic complexity achieved on a rewriting task…

Camping or other outdoor experience is seen as an alternative to incarceration for youth-at-risk, matching the excitement of the street-gang society or peer group, while simultaneously giving youth-at-risk a sense of the reason for teamwork, adherence to a group-respected value system, regard for skills and abilities of others, plus a…