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• Are Measured School Effects Just Sorting? Causality and Correlation in the National Education Longitudinal Survey

  BNET - 2003-01-06

  Youths who share a school and neighborhood often have similar academic achievement, but some studies find all or most of this apparent effect is due to sorting, not to the neighborhood itself. This paper presents a collage of evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey NELS indicating that a significant...

  Tags: Education, University Of Southern California, Correlation

• No simple Americanizers: Three early Anglo researchers of Mexican-American education

  - 2001-01-01

  Anglo-Hispanic relations in the U.S. Southwest remain contested. The balance of influence, however, was set, at least for the last 150 years, by provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Since that momentous event, the U.S. "way of life" has been desired for, and by, most Mexican immigrants (DeSipio and...

  Tags: education, G., Gordon, immigrant, M., researcher, teacher, Texas, U.S., University of Southern California, University of Texas

• In Memory - Brief Article - Obituary

  - 2000-10-01

  Dr. George Gustafson, 84, of Marquette, MI, passed away in March. Gustafson was a member of both CaICPA and the Michigan Association of CPAs. He began his teaching career at the University of Southern California and most recently served as director of continuing professional education at Northern Michigan University. Memorial...

  Tags: CAREER, director, Dr., education, University of Southern California

• Challenges and benefits of interprofessional education: Evaluation of the inter-professional initiative at the University of Southern California

  - 1999-10-01

  There is growing awareness that many of our most difficult and complex urban problems cannot be adequately addressed by large-scale traditional institutions, especially those that work in isolation from each other and from the communities that they are trying to serve. The "common purpose" of many reformers working to rethink...

  Tags: Benefits, education, team, University of Southern California

• Accreditation of social work education: Barriers and supports for interprofessional education

  - 1999-10-01

  Introduction As the health and human service needs of children and families increasingly become more complex, and as funding resources to meet these needs are realigned and devolved, it is imperative that professionals delivering services to families are able to work effectively and efficiently with other service providers and with...

  Tags: barrier, Council, curriculum, education, standards, University of Southern California, USC