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O'Keefe, Garrett J.; Reid, Kathaleen – 1989
Recent research indicates that public information campaigns and promotional programs can have an impact on the extent to which citizens involve themselves in crime prevention. Subgroups such as the elderly may especially benefit from efforts more carefully tailored to their own needs and circumstances. The design of successful programs requires…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Crime Prevention, Educational Methods, Information Dissemination
Cash, R. William; McFadden, Karen S. – 1993
Higher education administrators often wonder if the information they receive from the low response rates to surveys of non-matriculating applicants accurately reflects the entire population of these non-matriculants. These questions are exacerbated by evidence that response bias does exist. This paper describes how St. Mary's College in Notre…
Descriptors: Bias, College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students
Pouncey, Susan – 1981
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA) of 1974 impose an affirmative obligation on the states to rectify the language deficiencies of non-English-speaking students but do not specify a particular remedy, leaving it to State and local educational authorities to determine which programs, methods,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation