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Huang, Gary G.; And Others – 1996
Rural-to-urban migration of educated rural youth is a factor leading to economic marginality and community decline in rural America. This paper examines the extent to which high school curriculum contributes to the postschool outmigration of high school graduates, particularly those in rural areas. The study analyzed data from a national…
Descriptors: Academic Education, High School Graduates, High Schools, Longitudinal Studies
Dlugosh, Larry L. – 1994
This paper presents findings from a study that determined the conditions that encouraged school administrators to move between and among school districts. Data were derived from a survey of 1,010 Nebraska administrators on the membership list of the Nebraska Council of School Administrators. A total of 812 usable responses (an 80.3 percent…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
Marcus, Alan R. – 1992
This study analyses reasons given by the Canadian government for undertaking and administering relocations of Inuit (Eskimos) in 1953-55. The study, based on interviews and a review of government files, corroborates oral testimony by surviving Inuit, who said they suffered years of neglect following their resettlement from Quebec to the High…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Canada Natives, Children, Credibility
Bowen, Gary L. – 1989
This study investigated ways to improve family wellness during a critical period of family stress, the adaptation to relocation overseas. The study is based on a secondary analysis of the "1000 Army Families Dataset," which was collected in 1983. The final sample consisted of 983 officer and enlisted intact families in which the husband was in the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Enlisted Personnel, Family Attitudes, Family Mobility
Wiley, Terrence G.; And Others – 1983
The status of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement efforts in Long Beach, California is reported. The nearly 18,000 refugees who have settled in Long Beach since 1975 have generally become a part of the community despite initial apprehension on the part of community residents. The data were obtained through informal interviews of approximately 40…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Community Services, Curriculum Development
Burke, Dolores Lewis – 1986
Internal and external organizational influences on faculty mobility were studied during the 1985-1986 academic year. The investigation, which was designed as a replication of a 1958 study of the academic marketplace by Caplow and Reece, involved interviews with department heads, colleagues of departed faculty members, and new appointees at six…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Beginning Teachers, Employment Practices, Faculty Mobility
Li, Gertraude Roth; Johnson, Winston – 1982
This report provides background information on Polish refugees that may be of use to sponsors involved in Polish refugee resettlement in the United States. The report discusses economic and social conditions in Poland; the social values and political attitudes of modern Polish refugees as opposed to those of Poles who settled in the United States…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Differences, Economic Climate, Foreign Countries
Kiyak, Havva Asuman – 1980
As the population of older Americans continues to increase, more and more elderly persons will seek diverse living arrangements. Residential facilities must be designed to meet their needs. Person-environment congruence may be an important determinant of residential satisfaction and relocation stress for the elderly. Residents (N=107) of eight…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Congruence (Psychology), Environmental Influences, Individual Needs
Morris, Joann Sebastian – 1974
Due to the Federal relocation programs, American Indian migration to urban areas has intensified over the past 20 years. The Indian who moves from the reservation to the city encounters an alien culture and, consequently, experiences immense difficulties in securing employment, housing, health services, and fair, unprejudiced treatment from law…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Cultural Differences, Educational Problems
Goldberg, David; Anderson, Albert – 1974
The current flux of conditions associated with the slow growth of enrollment admittedly makes projecting enrollment to the year 2000 highly speculative. The only way this process can be handled is by generating several conceptually meaningful series of enrollment projections. The three sets of enrollment projections in this report are based on…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Colleges, Demography, Educational Demand
Coleman, James S. – 1975
The analysis of this paper is directed primarily to the question of the effect of school desegregation on loss of white children from large central-city school systems. This analysis is taken from James S. Coleman, Sara D. Kelly, and John A. Moore, Trends in School Segregation, 1968-73 (1975). The data are taken from annual reports by all school…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Inner City, Longitudinal Studies
Weaver, Robert C. – 1975
This paper is organized into four parts. Part One, The Historical Pattern and Its Study, notes that the impulse to suburbanize is probably as old as the city itself. However, because of magnitude alone, contemporary suburban settlement would have to be assessed as a phenomenon that is uniquely different from its predecessors. Part Two, The Changed…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Middle Class Standards
Adams, Dale W. – 1969
This discussion paper points out how land reform was the principal component in the Alliance for Progress aimed at easing rural poverty. Major sections question: (1) the influence of land reform on agricultural productivity, (2) urbanization as a viable alternative to land reform, and (3) colonization as an economic alternative to land reform.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Agronomy, Demography
Long, Larry H. – 1974
This paper relates frequency of interstate migration and the likelihood of a child's being enrolled in school at the modal grade for age, controlling for socioeconomic status of the family. The 1970 Census of Population obtained information on school enrollment and current grade, state of birth, residence in 1965, and residence in 1970. A measure…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Census Figures, Enrollment
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Jalongo, Mary Renck – Young Children, 1985
Discusses emotional responses and adjustment problems of preschool children when relocating. Particularly addresses young child's perspective on moving, typical reactions to relocating, and parent and teacher strategies to ease transition to new environment. Such strategies include (1) maintaining empathy, (2) being flexible, (3) being observant…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Childrens Literature, Developmental Continuity, Emotional Adjustment
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