This paper examines the relationship between the poor academic performance of urban students and the transience of teachers, principals, and the students themselves. Many studies, the authors observe, have noted the detrimental effect of one group's transience on student performance, but none has examined the particular devastation wrought by the…

Human capital models assume residential mobility is both voluntary and opportunity-driven. Residential mobility of low income households, however, often does not fit these assumptions. Often characterized by short-distance, high frequency movement, poverty-related mobility may only deepen the social and economic instability that precipitated the…

The relationship between talk and learning has been well documented in preservice and inservice teachers' and administrators' education. These studies demonstrate that talk is a central part of teacher learning and change, that particular forms of talk are more or less effective for such change to take place, and that talk must be conducted over…

Ontario has an opportunity to implement meaningful and transformational changes that exploit the potential for growth in the new economy and drive it's prosperity to unprecedented levels. But the threats to Ontario's future are just as great. Failing to move forward now with significant measures could leave Ontario unprepared for the challenges…

America's urban Catholic schools are in crisis. This report finds that over 1,300 schools have shut down since 1990, mostly in our cities. As a result, some 300,000 students have been displaced--forced to attend other public, private, or parochial schools. The school closures have cost taxpayers more than $20 billion to accommodate the additional…

This analysis draws on interview data from a three-year study of educational decision making of youth living in a coastal community in Atlantic Canada. Students whose educational and mobility aspirations extend outside the known spaces of the community develop the ability to negotiate multiple social spaces in and out of school. The school- …

Student mobility is defined as student enrollment at different schools between or within the school year. A study of Texas students' mobility is offered. Although the study focused primarily on within-year student mobility, longitudinal issues were examined by following first-grade students of 1991-92 through the 1995-96 school year. The research…

This report, which consists entirely of statistical data and explanatory notes, is the annual data report for 1986-87 of the Rochester City School District (New York). As stated in the introduction, the report's primary purpose is to provide systematic and reliable information for district assessment, strategic planning, and substantive…

Narrative text, tables, and maps summarize information derived from a random sample of 20% of the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) data base as it existed in June 1976 related to the mobility patterns of migrant children in the contiguous United States and Puerto Rico from January 1975 to April 1976. The data base is a tabulation of…

Policy issues concerning mobile handicapped populations are examined. Surveys of states and onsite interviews were conducted as well as a literature search. Specific difficulties facing migrant students are considered and the inadequate amount of information on other groups besides the migrants is pointed out. Mobility is discussed as a national…

This study investigated changes in student curriculum choice at Seminole Junior College (Florida) A code system was developed for 72 curriculum choices (23 in terminal degree areas), grouped into 19 broad clusters. A computerized Student Flow Matrix was then constructed to display the first and second term curriculum choices of 1,391 students who…

Simple continuity is applied with graph theory to generate a student flow model with multiple inputs and outputs. A graph of all semesters or nodes is laid out along with an input block for transfers in and an output block for transfers out. Arcs are connected from the zero node to the graduation node and these are placed in a time-forward…

One hundred and eighteen book chapters, journal articles, departmental reports, professional papers, and masters' theses from 1964 to 1973 are listed in this bibliography for social sciences. Emphasis is on developing human resource potentials of rural Southern youth and on their patterns of mobility. The major portion of the bibliography is…

This report, the fourth segment of the first phase of the Indiana Education Facilities Comprehensive Planning Study reviews the effects of college student migration on the enrollments in Indiana institutions of higher education. Data were compiled from the first semester or quarter of the academic years 1949, 1958, 1963 and 1967. Chapters cover…

This study of student migration patterns is based on the assumption that an important determinant of change in student migration patterns in recent years has been the increase in the number of two-year colleges. The present study utilizes data which makes possible an analysis of the relationship between student characteristics and their migration…