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Lamphere, Louise – 1975
As we reach the mid-point of the 1970's, we find women in many different positions: working and non-working, middle-class and working class, urban and rural, black and white. There are women with strong ethnic ties or religious orientations, first generation city dwellers and suburbanites. Three factors -- increased female labor force…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Employed Women
Massey, Grace Carroll – 1975
This study explored relationships to help explain why black students in inner city high schools so frequently report relatively high academic self-concepts although their academic achievement was low. Questionnaires were administered to a random sample in each comprehensive high schools in the San Francisco High School District (total n = 779).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations
Weinberg, Dorothe R. – 1976
The objective of the research reported here was to discover and describe two sets of categories used by teachers in perceiving and thinking about their students--one set common to all or nearly all teachers from inner-city schools with Afro-American enrollments; and the other set common to all or nearly all teachers from suburban schools with…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary School Teachers, Enrollment
Garfinkel, Irwin; Masters, Stanley – 1974
While static economic theory predicts that most income transfer programs will lead to reductions in the labor supply of program beneficiaries, the theory has nothing to say about the magnitude of such reductions. In order to predict the magnitude of such reductions the labor supply schedule of potential beneficiaries must be known. In three…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Estimates, Demography, Economic Research
Symonds, John D. – 1969
A literature survey is undertaken for the purpose of identifying and examining cultural differences between black and white Americans, with a major focus upon the black lower-class Northern urban-dweller. Major emphasis is placed upon the institutions of the Negro family and religion, as being moderator variables which help to account for various…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Institutions
Gartner, Alan; Riessman, Frank – 1973
Once again intelligence tests are being used as the major basis to establish the genetically determined limitations of minority and economically disadvantaged groups. By reviewing the arguments regarding the I.Q. test and the hereditability of intelligence, the author compares these with two sets of phenomena: the I.Q. test scores and the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1975
This study examined the effects of family size on a sample of some 5000 students in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and examined the effects of family size and spacing on some 537 families in four suburban towns near Boston. It was found that there were major effects of both socio-economic status and religion on family size, but that the direction of the…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Birth Rate, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
McPartland, James M.; Epstein, Joyce L. – 1975
Results are reported from a survey of 6,185 students in 23 elementary schools, 10 middle schools, and 6 high schools of a Maryland suburban district where schools vary significantly in the authority systems of the classrooms at each grade level. Analyses of the relationship between the 'openness' of a school's instructional program and student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Elementary Schools, Family Characteristics
Turner, Ralph R.; Hall, Vernon C. – 1974
In an attempt to specify the nature of the variables associated with socioeconomic status, Jensen has proposed a two-level model of mental abilities. The first level represents associative learning. The second level involves higher-order conceptualization, and problem solving. The purpose of the present study was to develop a matrix completion…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Learning
Schwartz, Audrey James – 1969
Value orientations and academic achievement of Mexican American and Anglo public school youth were studied with regard to (1) differences between Mexican American and Anglo values; (2) value differences within the Mexican American pupil subpopulation; and (3) the relationship between value orientations and academic achievement of Mexican American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis
Drilling, Laverne; And Others – 1969
Statistical sources for this exploratory study on the Indian relief recipient were "Indians in Minneapolis,""Indian Employment in Minneapolis," and a complete list of all Indian welfare recipients during March of 1969. The sources indicated that a disproportionate number of Minneapolis Indians were already on the city's relief…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Groups, American Indians, Dropouts
Sandberg, Neil C. – 1974
This study investigated the relationship between different generational and social class groups within the Polish-American community and the salience of ethnicity in each group. One of the largest immigrations to America was that from Poland. By the turn of the century a dispersed and highly mobile Polish-American population was evident in the Los…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Age Differences, Community Surveys, Cultural Images
Pozner, Jay – 1974
The study reported here was an attempt to systematically manipulate certain factors which might be responsible for the poor communicational performance of lower socioeconomic status children. The major questions raised were: Can differences in task difficulty, perceptual characteristics of the task, and task instructions attenuate or eliminate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Cline, Marvin G.; And Others – 1974
The design of this Planned Variation study examines the impact of Project Follow Through on children, focusing on the 1-year kindergarten experiences of the third Follow Through group. Chapter 1 presents a short history of Follow Through and a description of each of the participating program sponsors. Chapter 2 considers the problems faced in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Problems, Attitudes, Compensatory Education
Baltzell, D. Catherine – 1974
In 1971, Duval County, Florida, began investigating the effect of court-ordered desegregation on academic achievement. The study investigated achievement differences between desegregated and not-desegregated pupils and variables affecting their achievement. Several statistical techniques were used to investigate differences and the effects of sex,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students