Students and SchoolsNational Center for Education Statistics, 1979 - 85 pages |
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Page 71 - I am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, or hardly any confidence at all in them?, p.
Page 9 - We have determined that this funding scheme invidiously discriminates against the poor because it makes the quality of a child's education a function of the wealth of his parents and neighbors.
Page 83 - Students are often given the grades A, B, C, D, and FAIL to denote the quality of their work. Suppose the public schools themselves, in this community, were graded in the same way. What grade would you give the public schools here— A, B, C, D, or FAIL?
Page 10 - The need is apparent for reform in tax systems which may well have relied too long and too heavily on the local property tax.
Page ii - Center shall — (1) collect, collate, and, from time to time, report full and complete statistics on the conditions of education in the United States ; (2) conduct and publish reports on specialized analyses of the meaning and significance of such statistics ; (3) assist State and local educational agencies...
Page 79 - ... do you think white students and black students should go to the same schools or to separate schools?
Page 79 - Black children go to the same schools, or stay out of this matter as it is not its business?" (Percent responding "government should see to it" shown on graph.) Busing (NORC): "tn general, do you favor or oppose the busing of Black and white school children from one school district to another?
Page 38 - NOTE: Details may not add to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey: Integrated Survey, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, and unpublished data.
Page 58 - Details may not add to totals because of rounding. Source: US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, ffurierf-Kindergarten Enrollment of Children Under Six, October 1966. 'Julius Richmond, "For the Child of Poverty," American Child, Spring 1966, pp.
Page 40 - Because of rounding, details may not add to totals. SOURCE: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools; Common Core of Data surveys; "Private Elementary and Secondary Education, 1983: Enrollment, Teachers, and Schools...