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DUNCAN, BEVERLY – 1965
THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL BACKGROUND ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT WAS STUDIED. LARGE REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES OF THE POPULATION WERE SELECTED. INFORMATION ON THE VARIABLES WAS OBTAINED FROM SURVEYS CONDUCTED BY THE BUREAU OF CENSUS. THE SURVEYS QUERIED ADULT MALES AND TEEN-AGE BOYS LIVING AT HOME WITH PARENTS. DATA WERE ALSO DRAWN FROM PUBLICATIONS.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Characteristics, Economic Factors, Family Influence
VanKoughnett, B. C.; Smith, Merle E. – Educ Leadership, 1969
Study indicates, "that a school can evolve a program that serves to make students regard themselves in a positive light. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Human Dignity, Positive Reinforcement, Program Development
Market Opinion Research Co., Detroit, MI. – 1975
June 1975 marks the end of the fourth year of court-ordered busing for desegregation of the Pontiac Public schools. At the end of each year of busing, a survey of parents of students in the affected grades is conducted with the purpose of assessing parental attitudes about the busing plan, their perceptions of their children's education, and for…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Educational Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
GREEN, ROBERT L.; AND OTHERS – 1966
FOLLOWING A 4-YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD, STANDARD COGNITIVE AND NONCOGNITIVE MEASURES WERE OBTAINED ON A SIGNIFICANTLY LARGE GROUP OF NEGRO CHILDREN BEFORE AND AFTER AN 18-MONTH PERIOD OF RESUMED FORMAL SCHOOLING IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VIRGINIA. SAMPLES OF STUDENTS COMPLETING SOME FORMAL EDUCATION DURING THE CLOSURE PERIOD AND OTHERS HAVING NO…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Aspiration, Black Youth, Career Choice
Hollenbeck, Kevin – 1996
Focus group interviews were held with approximately 60 of the several hundred high school students who are participating in school-to-work transition programs offered through the Kalamazoo County (Michigan) Education for Employment (EFE) consortium, The 10 focus groups held involved 5-8 students each and were distributed across program types as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consortia, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Market Opinion Research Co., Detroit, MI. – 1975
Part of a series of parent and teacher surveys, this portion of the 1975 survey provides information on the attitudes of teachers of elementary and secondary grades toward the desegregation plan and their perceptions of some of the effects that the plan has had upon children in the Pontiac schools; and information on the attitudes of the teachers…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Poulos, Nicholis – 1971
The employment of School Community Assistants funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was intended to support the ongoing teaching processes in the classroom through the provision of lay personnel residing in the community who served on a paraprofessional level. The specific objectives of the project were for the School…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Attitude Change, Compensatory Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Education Finance Center. – 1979
This survey examined the attitudes of people in four states where tax or spending limitations appeared on the ballot in November 1978. It found that people had positive attitudes toward schools in their communities, believed schools are doing an above-average job, and viewed schools as a public service that should not be reduced. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Financial Support
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1973
Pontiac schools were desegregated prior to the 1971-72 school year. Annual attitude surveys have been conducted to assess the impact of desegregation on parents, students, and staff. This report presents data on the attitudes and opinions of secondary school students concerning desegregation, school structure and climate, and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
Measures of student satisfaction and other variables which are related to student reaction to their school are built into the design of this study, which hypothesizes that satisfaction will represent the students' global response to the learning environment, and that in turn, this global response will be related to certain performance…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes, Ethnic Groups
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
In two succeeding years, 1974 and 1975, the same attitude questionnaire is given to students in succeeding grades to determine attitude change as they move from third to fourth grade or from sixth to seventh grade. Rather than reporting on each of thirty-five attitude items separately, a statistical technique is applied to select the most…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Class Organization, Cluster Analysis
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
Pontiac schools were desegregated prior to the 1971-72 school year. Annual attitude surveys have been conducted to assess the impact of desegregation on parents, students, and staff. Teacher attitudes reported here are based on the 1974 survey. Although some mention is made of possible trends in attitudes over the three-year period, differences in…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Curriculum Development, Educational Attitudes, Ethnic Groups