The evolution of public school financing systems has traced the concern of equal access to dollars to opportunities for equal education which recognizes individual needs or deficiencies to questioning whether schooling makes a difference. The authors provide empirically based data supporting the necessity of equity in the allocation of State…

This paper documents a successful methodology for the validation of data in general and for evaluating educational finance data in particular. The report addresses the errors found as a result of the independent completion of Part B-1 of the Elementary-Secondary General Information System (ELSEGIS)--the Local Education Agency Fiscal Report. This…

This report concerns the residential distribution of first-time freshmen applicants to the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1969, before the implementation of the open admissions policy, and in 1970 and 1972, after it. The report also includes information on the allocation and enrollment of first-time freshmen applicants in the most recent of…

In 1972 the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, conducted a survey to find answers to questions raised by state and institutional policymakers. A questionaire requesting appropriation and enrollment information for fiscal years 1963-1972 was sent to each statewide coordinating or…

This report presents the results of the annual survey of the geographic origins or permanent residences of all credit course students attending institutions of the State University of New York during the fall 1972 term. The tables of this report are formated to provide geographic origin information on numbers of graduate and undergraduate students…

This document provides a series of tables and a set of profiles concerning higher education in the south, 1973-74. Tables cover population, institutions of higher learning, enrollment and degrees, student finances, institutional finances, faculty, and graduate education. The profiles are designed to highlight some of the more significant…

This document presents information concerning New England colleges and universities that have been authorized by its state government to grant academic degrees at either the associate, bachelor, master, doctoral, or professional level. Information covers number of student body by sex, accreditation, level of offering and type of program, summer…

This report is the result of a pilot program to seek out ways for developing an educational institution's transportation flow. Techniques and resulting statistics are discussed. Suggestions for additional uses of the information obtained are indicated. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to study flows into the pool of medical manpower in Michigan to develop guidelines for medical manpower policies. Assuming the goals were to maximize the number of physicians in Michigan, this paper describes an approach that would show the consequences of different allocations of state funds for achieving these…

The Post-High School Plans Survey has been conducted annually by the Office of High School Relations of the State System of Higher Education since 1956. The survey is distributed to high school seniors in all high schools in the state each fall, and the completed questionnaires are returned directly to the Educational Coordinating Council for…

Documents produced by international organizations attached to the United Nations sometimes create problems in their great variety of publication practices, but most have the objectives of producing information for use internationally, of improving standards and methods, and of making statistics more comparable. Generally, information is obtained…

The report is a compilation of aerospace educational statistical data and information of potential interest to the State's secondary curriculum decision-makers. The information was obtained from a six-item questionnaire which was sent to 155 district school superintendents (except in those districts with on-going aerospace education programs) with…

The problem of sex differences in interest measurement involves many technical issues and procedures. The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the technical problems involved in construction, scoring, and interpretation of interest measures as related to sex differences and to suggest guidelines within these technical issues which…

This is the eighth annual report of national normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, fulltime freshmen. Data are based on responses from 189,733 freshmen entering 360 institutions to the Student Information Form (SIF), the survey instrument. The SIF is designed to elicit a wide range of biographic and…

The future financing of postsecondary education is a critical issue facing those charged with national and state educational policy. Questions regarding pricing, financial aids, the methods of support, and the impact of various policies on accessibility and educational quality are hotly debated in Congress and in every state. To determine how…