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Toppin, Edgar A. – Crisis, 1975
Re-examines the role played by blacks in the American Revolution, noting that blacks were a substantial portion (one-fifth) of the population, that about eight per cent of them were free, and that more free blacks lived in the South, that slavery existed in all 13 southern states, and that there were more slaves than free blacks living in the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black History, Black Influences, Civil Rights
Reid, J. Norman; And Others – 1982
Data from fiscal 1979 provide the basis for an analysis of distribution of Federal dollars among county areas and assessment of major recent trends. Federal per capita funding remains unevenly divided among the regions; however, the advantage of the West and South may be moderating somewhat. The spread of some Federal programs into more rural…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Comparative Analysis, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
National Catholic Educational Association, Washington, DC. – 1981
Statistical information on Catholic schools, enrollments, and faculty in the United States is presented in this collection of 18 tables. Comparisons are made where similar information is available on public schools and other private schools. Brief interpretive analyses focus on the significance of each table. In addition to enrollment figures and…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Ethnic Distribution
Lyman, Elisabeth R. – 1978
This description of the PLATO system over its first seven years describes the development of PLATO III and PLATO IV, lists financial supporters of the PLATO project from 1960 to 1977, outlines highlights in its history, and provides a chronological list of publications about the system. Figures include the locations and increasing numbers of PLATO…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Educational Innovation
Kalb, John M. – 1979
The development of the State University System of Florida is studied from 1959, before any "new" schools were added to the three already established (The University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A & M University), until 1974, two years after the final expansion to the present nine schools in the system.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Trends, Geographic Distribution
von Zur-Muehlen, Max – 1975
A profile of the socio-economic characteristics of the permanent residents of Canada holding an earned doctorate is presented. In 1973, there were 27,410 Canadian residents who had obtained an earned doctorate. (Holders of such professional doctoral degrees as Doctor of Medicine are excluded from this study.) Only 9 percent of the Ph.Ds were…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Females, Foreign Countries
Barkin, David – 1967
The document is "the second in a series of reports which analyze the problems and effects of intergovernmental grants for education." The focus is on problems of "counting and locating" disadvantaged children who are to be served by Alementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs. Definitions of the poor for policy…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Educational Legislation
Grimes, Walter F. – 1975
In response to the current shortage of rural physicians and the difficulties encountered in studying this problem, this paper attempts to apply a specific multivariate technique (path analysis) and the socioeconomic careers model of Featherman and others to the study of the physician's choice of practice location. The socioeconomic careers model…
Descriptors: Career Development, Conceptual Schemes, Geographic Distribution, Models
Creswell, John W.; Self, Burl E. – 1976
This paper discusses the Synagraphic Mapping System (SYMAP), a computerized cartographic planning tool, and describes its use by a large metropolitan junior college. The authors offer a brief introductory description of SYMAP and then discuss three possible uses of the system, illustrating their discussion with sample SYMAP-generated map displays.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Demography, Educational Administration, Educational Planning
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1967
A brief history is presented of Indian tribes living along the eastern seaboard of the United States from the time of contact of these tribes with the first European settlers to the present day. Early Indian-white relationships are discussed, as well as relationships established between the various tribes themselves. An historical presentation of…
Descriptors: American History, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Anthropology
Employment Standards Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Women's Bureau. – 1971
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been summarized on labor force participation and unemployment rates in 1971, of women 16 years of age and over, in the various census regions of the United States and in 10 large States and 20 large Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA's); separate data also have been summarized for women of…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Statistics, Females, Geographic Distribution
Thomas, Ceinwen H. – 1974
Ongoing research conducted by the Welsh Language Research Unit of Cardiff, Wales is described. This research has concentrated mainly on recording and describing the phonology of some varieties of Welsh spoken in South-East Wales, particularly as it is associated with geographic areas and affected by population changes resulting from industrial…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)

Califano, Joseph A., Jr. – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
Issues addressed in this speech to the Association of American Medical Colleges include: oversupply of doctors, geographic maldistribution, demographic changes needed by medical schools, federal strategies, medical ethics, preventive medicine, and the economics of health care.
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Economic Factors, Federal Government, Geographic Distribution

Graettinger, John S. – Journal of Medical Education, 1978
When the 2,308 residencies obtained by U.S. medical school graduates outside of the National Intern and Resident Matching Program were added to those of the 11,172 students who matched, the distribution of all 1977 graduates among specialties was found to be essentially the same as for those who matched, but regional differences were marked.…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education

Navin, Thomas R.; Nichols, Andrew W. – Journal of Medical Education, 1977
This program affiliated with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, defrays costs faced by an Arizona student in attending an out-of-state medical school by paying the difference between the resident and nonresident tuition at the out-of-state school. It has failed to increase the numbers of medicals students and physicians…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Geographic Distribution, Higher Education, Medical Schools