Using data taken from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study was undertaken to examine migrant student movement patterns for Region 1 of California's Migrant Education Program which includes eight counties located along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1977, 490 students entered Region 1 from another state;…

Region 2 of the California Migrant Education Program, located along the northern California coast and inland, includes 13 contiguous counties north of a line between San Francisco and Sacramento and the two counties in the northwest and northeast corners of the state. Using data extracted from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study…

This volume contains summaries of the latest research focusing on the issue of the extent of drug use and abuse among racial and ethnic minorities and the factors influencing it. Taken into consideration are age and sex differences among users, narcotics addiction, socioeconomic influences, cultural factors, racial factors, demographic factors,…

This paper analyzes the macro relationships among education, income, and related socio-economic variables pertaining to young Filipino Americans. Probable reasons underlying the relatively low school enrollment of this ethnic group are examined. In addition, multiple regression models are utilized to explain differences in schooling enrollment…

MORE THAN 10,000 CHILDREN ATTEND SCHOOLS WHERE THERE ARE NO SCHOOL LIBRARIES. SIXTY-SIX PERCENT OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DO NOT HAVE A SCHOOL LIBRARY. EVEN SCHOOLS WITH CENTRALIZED LIBRARIES HAVE FEWER THAN FIVE BOOKS PER PUPIL, AND MANY ARE WITHOUT PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED LIBRARIANS. BECAUSE OF THESE STATISTICS A SPECIAL ISSUE ON ELEMENTARY…

This report provides projections of the U.S. population by age, race, and sex, and of the components of population change (births, deaths, and migration). Statistical tables project the population increase annually from 1977 to 2000, and in less detail from 2000 to 2050. The author stresses that these reports are projections rather than…

With the resurgence of interest in sex differences research, it is important to use a "confidence interval" strategy in organizing and interpreting material rather than a strategy of statistical significance or non-significance. Investigators are urged to go beyond the reporting of statistical significance and to determine something…

Despite advances in common factor analysis, a review of 89 studies published in four selected journals between 1963 and 1976 indicated that behavioral scientists preferred principal components analysis, followed by varimax or orthogonal rotation. Resultant row sums of squares of factor matrices from principal component analyses of real data sets…

The nineteenth annual edition of the report provides a record of state tax appropriations for the 1977-78 fiscal year. Data are arrayed in charts by state, with some analysis provided. Figures are given for operating expense appropriations of individual institutions, and often for individual programs of the institutions. A chart showing two- and…

A study was undertaken of transfer students in postsecondary institutions, based on data from the base year and first and second followups of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Its specific objectives were to: (1) obtain national estimates of the number and proportion of students in the categories of four-year to…

The study of non-college-attending, male high school graduates examines vocational, general, and college preparatory high school curricula and certain post-school training opportunities to uncover differences in their effectiveness, either alone or in conjunction with post-school programs, in preparing youth for careers. Based on data from the…

The report is concerned with the feasibility of matching people and jobs as proposed by the Theory of Work Adjustment; according to the third proposition of this theory, satisfaction is a function of the correspondence between the reinforcer system of the work environment and the individual's needs, with certain qualification. In the study, the…

The Admission Testing Program Summaries prepared by the College Entrance Examination Board are reviewed and compared. The summaries are a set of 21 tables reporting Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, Achievement Test scores, and other data about students who took the SAT in national administrations. The fluctuations of the average SAT scores…

This bibliography contains a listing of source material from books, papers, articles, and theses produced during 1968-1973 on topics pertinent to elementary education. Sources consulted in the preparation of this compilation include the: "Bibliographie du Quebec,""British Education Index" (The Library Association), the "Canadian Education Index"…

This paper proposes two modifications of the Lorenz technique for measuring inequalities in financing education. One is to order expenditures (and tax rates) by district fiscal ability before calculating the cumulative percentages. It is possible, as a result, to get a Lorenz curve that crosses the diagonal line, which gives some useful insights.…