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...data including the 1966 Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey (the Coleman Report), a survey of the nation's educational resources which prompted Congress to push for school integration and compensatory education programs. Jencks's group also reevaluated Project Talent's longitudinal study of students in 100 high schools and Census Bureau studies of social mobility and income distributed. Their conclusions--which have drawn praise from Newsweek as "a potentially liberating force for American education," and damnation in a New York Times editorial...
Volumes I through V of the Plan are nearly done. They survey the success of previous planning efforts, planning philosophies, raw census data, traffic flow, and the visual environment of the Square...
...votes were cast with feet and tallies read off odometers, the West would win the U.S. popularity contest in a landslide. The 1970 census figures show that the population of mountain and Pacific states has increased by 24.1 % since 1960. v. an increase on the other side of the Great Divide of only 11%. Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," is still being heeded by young and old alike, in spite of the fact that the "frontier" is now posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature...
...Census Bureau's new report on Americans' financial condition had the makings of a not terribly funny "good news-bad news" joke. The good news was that last year for the first time the median income of the American family rose above $10,000, to $10,285. The bad news was that inflation had wiped out the gain; in constant dollars the median income was almost exactly the same as in 1970. At the same time, the number of poor in the U.S. (a poor family is defined as a nonfarm family of four with an income...
...news for black Americans was also good and bad. Between 1960 and 1970, the Census Bureau said, blacks made significant progress in education, income, job opportunities and housing. The greatest improvements occurred in the North and West among black families where the parents were under the age of 35, especially when both husband and wife were working. The high school dropout rate for blacks decreased sharply to 11.1% in 1971 , compared with 7.4% for whites. On the college level, the number of black students enrolled rose from 10% to 18%, compared with a constant 22% for whites...