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Bates, Percy; And Others – Equity Coalition for Race, Gender, and National Origin, 1991
Equity does not require that everyone have the same amount of resources to satisfy basic needs, but it does require that each of us be able to live decently. The articles in this issue focus on poverty and its effects on children, particularly with respect to education and the ability to learn. The following articles are included: (1) "Poor Kids…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Bennett, Kate; Peckham, Kathleen – 1995
With the end of the Civil War just 30 years past, the organizers of the Atlanta (Georgia) 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition sought to demonstrate the South's national patriotism and progressivism. While the exhibits at the exposition widely varied, among the most ambitious undertakings were the displays of fine arts found in the Fine…
Descriptors: Art, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History
Thornton-Little, Bridget – 1996
Studies have indicated that pregnancy is only one of the factors that cause female students to drop out of school. A study was conducted at a Chicago (Illinois) public high school to determine if there was a significant difference in the dropout rate for teens who were pregnant and those who were not. The population for the study included female…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Ethnic Groups
Tagliamonte, Sali – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An analysis of perfect verb forms in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) looks at the distribution of forms by semantic function and co-occurrence patterns in Samana English and ex-slave recordings. Results suggest that despite the overall rarity of this category in the general realm of past time, the most frequent forms used to mark it…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Mulvey, Patrick J.; Dodge, Elizabeth – AIP Report, 1996
This report presents the results of a 1994-95 survey of U.S. colleges and universities offering doctorate, masters, and bachelors degrees in physics and astronomy, focusing on degree production and current student enrollment. It found that over the last 3 years, first-year graduate physics enrollments have declined 22 percent at doctorate-granting…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Astronomy, Bachelors Degrees, Black Students
Thomas, Richard W. – 1996
Understanding the history of cooperative efforts among blacks and whites for the social and economic advancement of African Americans and the development of harmony and fellowship in various religious communities has the potential to inspire good race relations in contemporary America. The book is organized around major themes that have been…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Cooperation, Economic Factors
Williams, Patricia; Lundsteen, Sara W. – 1997
One approach to promote partnerships between parents and schools and parents' involvement in a child's literacy development is to instruct parents through a workshop about literacy development and how to develop a portfolio of their child's literacy development reflecting literacy behavior at home. Parents of prekindergarten students in one public…
Descriptors: Child Development, Family Programs, Literacy, Literacy Education
Romero, Julie – 1996
This paper focuses on two questions: (1) Can visual arts be an effective way for students to express what they have learned in social studies?; and (2) Can creative activity improve motivation, participation, attitude, and enhance learning in social studies? The sample for study was drawn from 75 fifth-graders in 3 classes in a school located in a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Cultural Activities
Lally, J. Ronald; And Others – 1993
Families First, an early intervention program implemented in Marin City, California, was designed to integrate and coordinate the provision of a wide range of services to families of children in a low-income, mostly African-American community, from the third trimester of pregnancy to 8 years of age. The program is intended to enhance the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Black Community, Childhood Needs, Community Services
Trotter, Jennie C. – 1993
Today's teens are dealing with an increasing amount of stress, but they have developed few positive stress management skills. Strategies that students can use to deal with their daily stressors are covered in this manual, which was designed as a companion volume to a teen stress video. The material here addresses many of the issues faced during…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Coping, Intermediate Grades
Hall, Carroll L.; And Others – 1995
The "Accountability Report" provides indicators of the condition of Public Education in New Mexico, and is published each year by the State Department of Education. The report provides narrative and statistical information on an array of educational indicators, which include enrollment trends, funding and expenditures, graduation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, American Indians
Taylor, George R.; And Others – 1996
Data reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Bureau of the Census, and a literature review were used to develop comparative descriptive profiles of the employment status of white U.S. minorities in the workplace. In addition, these data were used to show the progression of African Americans into the workplace from…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Employed Women
MacFarland, Thomas W. – 1995
This report summarizes enrollment trends at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from calendar years 1990 through 1994. Due to the January 1, 1994, merger between Nova University and Southeastern University of the Health Sciences and the incompatibility of their respective information management systems, students in the…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Students, Departments, Enrollment Trends
Blake, Barbara; Kruger, Tom – 1994
The purpose of this book, with an accompanying audiocassette, is twofold: (1) to enhance teachers' and librarians' understanding and appreciation for the variety of cultures in the United States; and (2) to show how folklore and music can be used to help children learn about their own and other cultures. The first two chapters present an overview…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Audiotape Cassettes, Blacks
Michael-Bandele, Mwangaza – 1993
During the past decade, there has been a simultaneous decline in the number of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American teachers and an increase in the number of students among these same groups of minorities (referenced in this text as people of color). An array of topics relative to this decline were explored as the subject of a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Educational Needs