Author: David M. O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Education in the United States, 1940-1983
Author: David M. O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Resources in education
Author: Census Catalog and Guide
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Includes subject area sections that describe all pertinent census data products available, i.e. "Business--trade and services", "Geography", "Transportation," etc.
The Diverted Dream
Author: Steven BrintPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878803
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity to attend college has become an integral part of the American dream of upward mobility. The two-year college--which now enrolls more than four million students in over 900 institutions--is a central expression of this dream, and its invention at the turn of the century constituted one of the great innovations in the history of American education. By offering students of limited means the opportunity to start higher education at home and to later transfer to a four-year institution, the two-year school provided a major new pathway to a college diploma--and to the nation's growing professional and managerial classes. But in the past two decades, the community college has undergone a profound change, shifting its emphasis from liberal-arts transfer courses to terminal vocational programs. Drawing on developments nationwide as well as in the specific case of Massachusetts, Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel offer a history of community colleges in America, explaining why this shift has occurred after years of student resistance and examining its implications for upward mobility. As the authors argue in this exhaustively researched and pioneering study, the junior college has always faced the contradictory task of extending a college education to the hitherto excluded, while diverting the majority of them from the nation's four-year colleges and universities. Very early on, two-year college administrators perceived vocational training for "semi-professional" work as their and their students' most secure long-term niche in the educational hierarchy. With two thirds of all community college students enrolled in vocational programs, the authors contend that the dream of education as a route to upward mobility, as well as the ideal of equal educational opportunity for all, are seriously threatened. With the growing public debate about the state of American higher education and with more than half of all first-time degree-credit students now enrolled in community colleges, a full-scale, historically grounded examination of their place in American life is long overdue. This landmark study provides such an examination, and in so doing, casts critical light on what is distinctive not only about American education, but American society itself.
The U.S. Savings Challenge
Author: Charls E. WalkerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000234746
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Concern about the low U.S. saving rate and its negative impact on capital formation and economic growth prompted the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Center for Policy Research to launch a multifaceted, three-year project to explore this issue in 1988. This volume is one element of that project. This book contains slightly updated versions of the papers presented at a two-and-one-half-day conference entitled Saving: The Challenge for the U.S. Economy, held in Washington, D.C., in October 1989.
Population Profile of the United States
Author: School Dropouts
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dropouts
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
100 Predictions for the Baby Boom
Author: Cheryl RussellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489934685
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Without the baby boom, the United States would be a different place. The Vietnam War would have lasted longer. Rock and roll would be less pervasive. The civil rights movement would have changed laws and attitudes more slowly. But women might be further ahead in job status and pay if there had been no baby boorr.. Hous ing would be cheaper. The economy would have done better in the 1970s, and people now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s would be making more money. For the past 30 years, the baby boom generation all those born between 1946 and 1964-shook American economics, politics, and culture. But the full impact of 7 8 PREFACE the baby boom is yet to come because the generation is just now gaining the economic and political power to de termine events. Though the baby boom is a diverse generation linked only by its date of birth, that link is critical. The gener ation spans 19 years, which means many boomers ex perience the same things at the same time-going to col lege, getting a job, marrying, divorcing, buying a house, starting a family. Because of this, the baby boom in fluences what America's businesses produce, what the media write about, and what the politicans support. It focuses the nation's attention on itself; its concerns be come the nation's concerns. Whatever age the baby boom is becomes the nation's age.
Drugs and Dropouts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
1987 Update on Drugs and Dropouts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dropouts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description