Equal Educational Opportunity 1971: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity of the United States, Ninety-second Congress, First Session on Equal Educational OpportunityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 |
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48 STUDENT 6-INDEX OF POSSESSIONS 6-SES LEVEL MEDIANS ability group ACCORDING TO VARIABLE achievement allocation assessed valuation attendance City Coleman Report computer displays dollar earnings economic Educational Administration Quarterly educational attainment Educational Opportunity EEOS effect enrolled Equality of Educational EXPENDITURE PER PUPIL FRCM VARIABLE funds grade groups high school high SES districts higher income individual inequities instructional less low SES districts low SES schools lower MEDIAN NTRUE MEDIANS FRCM MEDIANS FROM VARIABLE Michigan null hypothesis OCTILE MEDIAN OCTILES ACCORDING percent percentage POSSESSIONS MEDIANS property tax quality of school QUARTILE rank regression analysis revenues sample school districts school finance school service components scores social class socioeconomic status statistical Table tax rate teachers teaching Thomas Report UCTILES valuation per pupil Value E. E. O.S. Question VARIABLE 168 6-INDEX VARIABLE 179 6-SES Variable Number Value Variable Variable Number verbal ability
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Page 6904 - Let us begin by perfecting the system of education as the proper foundation whereon to erect a temple to liberty, and to establish a wise, equitable, and durable policy, that our country may become indeed an asylum to the distressed of every clime -- the abode of liberty, peace, virtue, and happiness. . . . A Plan for the General Establishment of Schools Throughout the United States Robert Corum, 1791 This is a study of opportunity.
Page 6999 - That schools bring little-^ influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context ; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.
Page 7069 - On the basis of their analysis, they conclude that, ". . . the school stands out as the central, salient, and dominant force in the political socialization of the young child.
Page 7022 - This elfort collected information from a stratified random sample of primary school students as to academic performance and school and home characteristics. These data enabled...
Page 6928 - Participation (EP ), comprising several rating techniques, is posed on the propositions that those who interact in the social system of a community evaluate the participation of those around them, that the place where an individual participates is evaluated, and that the members of the community are explicitly or implicitly aware of the ranking and translate their evaluations of such social participation into social-class ratings that can be communicated to the investigator.
Page 6999 - Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront...
Page 6913 - B. School Services and Pupil Achievement. A relationship exists between the quality of school services provided to a pupil and his academic achievement, and that relationship is such that higher-quality...
Page 6895 - The Board of Education of the School District of the City of Detroit had filed a complaint alleging that Michigan's governmental arrangements for education, violated * * * the Equal Protection Clause.
Page 7067 - The reason for this observation is that much of the education and educational motivation of a child takes place in the home. Children whose parents have more education enter their schooling careers with higher achievement scores 30 than do their less fortunate peers. This phenomenon has been confirmed in many studies of educational performance, and it is held to be the result of the quality and quantity of interaction between parents and children in the home.31 Thus, intergenerational upward mobility,...
Page 7077 - XV.) 21. That the present plans in use for the apportionment of school funds in fully three-fourths of the states of the Union are in need of careful revision, and that there is likewise need for a more careful study of this problem than has been given it so far by most of the states if it is desired that future evolution shall take place along more intelligent lines than has been the case in the past.