This report presents information on the status of women as administrators in the New York public schools for the years 1968-91. Data obtained from the Education Department's information system are used to describe trends in the following areas: (1) the educational preparation of persons employed as school administrators; (2) the educational…

Through a number of measures, both quantitative and qualitative, this progress report explores the achievements of Southeastern public schools in meeting the continually expanding goal of quality education for all citizens. Quantitative figures are shown, regionally and state by state, for ages of compulsory attendance, public and private school…

A select annotated bibliography on theory and practical measures of student achievement from seven eastern European countries is provided. Countries included in the references are Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. (DE)

Exploring the contribution of the home, apprenticeship, and evening schools, the analysis suggests that while sex bias apparently favored males in quality and quantity of educational opportunity, women's education in Colonial America was richer than popularly conceived. (Author/MW)

The education and employment of Kansas Hispanics in public, elementary and secondary schools were examined, utilizing 1980 data from the U.S. Census Bureau and 1979 data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Data pertained to 18 counties located in western, central, and eastern Kansas: Finney, Ford, Grant, Seward, Sherman, Harvey,…

This is a preliminary report on a three year study of international precollege psychology. The study was designed to determine the extent to which material is taught, content of courses, and the training, experience, interests, and problems of the teachers. Lines of communication are to be established and maintained with the foreign teachers.…

This report describes a survey to determine the nature and extent of psychology as a high school subject in Canada's most populous province, Ontario. Included in the report are the survey design, composition of the questionnaire, results, and general analysis of results. (Author/DE)

Data on freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are presented and compared to data of comparable institutions as part of the research of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). The study deals with the class of 1980 (enrolled, fall 1976) and the class of 1981 (enrolled, fall 1977). The two classes of entering…

This report, the first of several to be published on the results of the 1972-73 assessment of mathematics, begins with a brief general discussion of the project. The findings with respect to pure computation and computation with translation are then presented in some detail. Data collected from subjects at four age levels (9, 13, 17, and adult)…

Findings in industrialized countries, such as those of Jencks and Coleman, indicate that socioeconomic status has a strong influence on academic achievement and that school effects are of lesser importance. This study of socioeconomic influences and school influences on the performance of 23,615 Ugandan children taking the Primary Leaving…

In contrast to previous research, this study assumes a range of aspirations for individuals, rather than a single level. The basic hypothesis is that social class is related to the width of the range; that is, the lower the social class level the wider the range of aspiration. Interviews were conducted with parents of 255 Negro kindergarten and…

The 1970 revised science objectives are presented in this booklet along with a summary of the history and goals of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Procedures used in reviewing and revising the 1965 version are described in detail. The National Assessment Science objectives are divided into three primary statements describing the…

A report of one of four studies in a series on how women vocational educators see their professional roles. One conclusion borne out by the other studies is that the career aspirations of these women are not astronomical. (Editor/HD)