This profile uniquely presents a variety of educational and socioeconomic information for San Luis Obispo County, nearby counties, and the state. The profile highlights the relationship between various factors that affect the economic well-being of individuals and communities. This presentation of information provides a framework for enhanced…

This profile uniquely presents a variety of educational and socioeconomic information for San Mateo County, nearby counties, and the state. The profile highlights the relationship between various factors that affect the economic well-being of individuals and communities. This presentation of information provides a framework for enhanced…

This profile uniquely presents a variety of educational and socioeconomic information for Santa Barbara County, nearby counties, and the state. The profile highlights the relationship between various factors that affect the economic well-being of individuals and communities. This presentation of information provides a framework for enhanced…

This profile uniquely presents a variety of educational and socioeconomic information for Santa Cruz County, nearby counties, and the state. The profile highlights the relationship between various factors that affect the economic well-being of individuals and communities. This presentation provides a framework for enhanced communication and…

This profile uniquely presents a variety of educational and socioeconomic information for Tehama County, nearby counties, and the state. The profile highlights the relationship between various factors that affect the economic well-being of individuals and communities. This presentation of information provides a framework for enhanced…

The economic census furnishes an important part of the framework for such composite measures as the gross domestic product estimates, input/output measures, production and price indexes, and other statistical series that measure short-term changes in economic conditions. Specific uses of economic census data include the following: Policymaking…

The interdistances between thirteen places situated in different parts of the world were estimated by 60 subjects. The estimates were analysed by Kruskal's multidimensional technique and, after a cosine transformation, by factor analysis. (Author)

The network program offers students on the scene" information about the cost of living, housing, schooling, and other data necessary to make a realistic employment choice in any desired geographic area. (Author)

Children vary widely in their entering behavior" as they come to primary grades. This variation seems to be a result of variations in attention from adults interested in helping them learn. In elementary grade geography, teachers must help fill in the gaps for individual students who have not had their attention held on location, symbols,…

Secondary students learn about history and geography through five stamp activities: (1) Who is this person and why is he/she important?; (2) How is inflation illustrated by stamps?; (3) How have stamps served to disseminate information?; (4) How have science and technology changed?; and (5) Where are these countries? (RM)

Presents the results of a world-wide survey on the teaching of French, both as a first and as a second language. States the objectives of the investigation and describes the procedures used to collect the relevant information. The documentation guidelines used to conduct the survey are reproduced in the appendix. (MES)

A system of categories organized along the three dimensions of behavior, location, and social setting, was developed and used to obtain recordings of the activity of pupils in open-area schools and traditional schools. (Author/JKS)

Attitudes toward the urban environment and place of origin were found to be the best predictors of an optometrist's practice location. Findings of this study imply that optometry students most likely to enter rural practice can be objectively identified early in their training and that the predictive equation presented may be useful in the…

The reported successful recruitment of additional physicians to some rural communities in New York led to this study. Its objectives were to verify such immigration, to obtain limited demographic data on the new physicians, and to develop some explanation for their successful recruitment. (LBH)

Outlines the need for a world systems approach to locating one's experiences in the environment. Uses experiences of three poets and of the author to illustrate questions and issues geography teachers should reflect on when teaching Australian geography in a world context. Concludes with 10 questions that encourages teachers to reflect on these…