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Aslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This paper examines peer effects in welfare use among refugees. We exploit a Swedish refugee placement policy, which generated exogenous variation in peer group composition. Our analysis distinguishes between the quantity of contacts--the number of individuals of the same ethnicity--and the quality of contacts--welfare use among members of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Welfare Recipients, Peer Influence, Ethnic Groups
Gambino, Christine; Gryn, Thomas – US Census Bureau, 2011
This brief will discuss patterns of science and engineering educational attainment within the foreign-born population living in the United States, using data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS). The analysis is restricted to the population aged 25 and older, and the results are presented on science and engineering degree attainment by…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Community Surveys, Engineering Education, Science Education
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Gulosino, Charisse; Lubienski, Christopher – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
School choice is intended to leverage competition between schools to produce better educational opportunities for disadvantaged students. Yet we know very little about how competition impacts entire populations of schools of different types in distributing educational options across segregated social landscapes. We draw on theories from the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, Urban Areas, Educational Change
Reamer, Andrew D. – Brookings Institution, 2010
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a Census Bureau program that provides annually updated information on demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics of U.S. households at every level of geography, from the nation to the neighborhood. ACS data are used by public and business decision-makers to more clearly identify issues and…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Federal Programs, Community Surveys, Federal Aid
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Nelson, Peter B.; Oberg, Alexander; Nelson, Lise – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
Although gentrification is a process commonly associated with urban landscapes, rural areas in advanced economies have also experienced gentrification over the past two decades. Largely based on case study approaches, the Rural Studies literature describes transformations in the housing market, changed cultural attitudes toward the environment,…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Baby Boomers, Social Change, Rural Areas
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Baker, Bruce D.; Ramsey, Matthew J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
Over the past few decades, a handful of states have chosen to provide state financing of special education programs through a method referred to as "Census-Based" funding--an approach which involves allocated block-grant funding on an assumed basis of uniform distribution of children with disabilities across school districts. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Special Education, Census Figures
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Grehan, Anna; Cavalluzzo, Linda; Gnuschke, John; Hanson, Ryan; Oliver, Simon; Vosters, Kelly – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2011
This study examines the first four years of Tennessee's Voluntary Prekindergarten program, directed to four-year-olds eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It reviews participation levels and trends for the program as a whole, for collaborative partner classrooms, and for student and district subgroups and discusses the geographic distribution…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Preschool Education, Geographic Distribution, Maps
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American Psychologist, 2009
Each year, the apportionment ballot is used to determine how many representatives each division and state, provincial, and territorial association will have on the Council of Representatives. The system is described in Article V, Sections 6 and 7, of the American Psychological Association (APA) "Bylaws". Briefly, all APA fellows, members, and…
Descriptors: Voting, Psychology, Group Membership, Professional Associations
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Zhang, Jingning – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2010
This study focuses on a specific Chinese immigrant subgroup, immigrants from the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Arizona, and details the impact of different immigrant experiences and settlement patterns on parents' attitudes toward Mandarin maintenance. Data were collected through an eight-month-long ethnographic research in Arizona. The…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Chinese Americans
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Logan, John R.; Minca, Elisabeta; Adar, Sinem – Sociology of Education, 2012
Persistent school segregation means not only that children of different racial and ethnic backgrounds attend different schools but also that their schools are unequal in performance. This study documents the extent of disparities nationally in school performance between schools attended by whites and Asians compared with those attended by blacks,…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Racial Composition, Academic Achievement
Hunt, Sally – Adults Learning, 2009
Social mobility, or the lack of it, is back in the news following the release of a University and College Union (UCU) report, "Location, Location, Location," and a speech from the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, in which he warned that there is no silver bullet when it comes to social mobility. The UCU report revealed that where a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Achievement Gap
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Rowlands, Ian H.; Jernigan, Carey – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2008
The purpose of this article is to investigate wind turbine production, the variability of that production, and the relationship between output and system-wide demand. A review of the literature reveals that a variety of measures (and methods) to explore the variability of wind power production exist. Attention then turns to the province of Ontario…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Energy
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Tappert, Charles C.; Stix, Allen – Computers in the Schools, 2010
At Pace University we have been using real-world student projects in capstone computing courses for about 10 years. While the courses were conducted in a traditional classroom environment during the early years, the current course has been essentially online for the last five years in order to reach a greater number of geographically scattered…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Distance Education, Educational Trends, Online Courses
Spalding, Audrey – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2013
This study examines the use of Schools of Choice throughout Michigan over the last decade. Nearly 100,000 Michigan students use Schools of Choice to attend a school outside of the district in which they live. Participation has grown steadily, with enrollment growing by 144 percent over the past 10 years. This study finds that students enter…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Student Participation, Enrollment Rate
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Kariya, Takehiko – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
The emergence of a global knowledge-based economy has given rise to drastic changes in both higher education and employment. On one hand, governments in advanced societies have launched policies to expand higher education to compete internationally in educating and attracting highly skilled workers. At the same time, both global economic…
Descriptors: Credentials, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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