Labor market discrimination contributes to persistent gaps in employment between majority and minority racial and ethnic groups and increases racial inequality. Economic arguments suggest that employment discrimination wastes talent and reduces productivity, by lowering the quality of matches between applicants and jobs.
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Lawyers and the Promotion of Justice, published in 1938, is part of a series dealing with the status of certain established or emerging professions in the United States. It focuses on the evolution of professional education and problems incident to it in regards to the field of law.
ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Two Worlds of Childhood is a cross-cultural study of child rearing and education in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, published in 1970. Bronfenbrenner conducted research in the Soviet Union to study child rearing in the family and collective settings.
URIE BRONFENBRENNER was professor of Psychology and of Child Development and Family Studies at Cornell University, and one of the founders of the Head Start Program.
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Experiences and Attitudes of American Adults Concerning Standardized Intelligence Tests
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In 1962 the Russell Sage Foundation initiated a series of studies on the social consequences of standardized intelligence, aptitude, and achievement testing. This book presents the initial results from the series, focusing on the social impact of tests of intellectual abilities, based on questionnaire responses from adults across the United States.
ORVILLE G. BRIM was president of the Russell Sage Foundation.
JOHN NEULINGER was assistant professor of psychology at City College of the City University of New York.
DAVID C. GLASS was professor of psychology at New York University.
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In 1949, the Russell Sage Foundation instituted a counseling service for colleges and universities that wished to improve their existing schools of nursing or introduce new nursing curricula, headed by Dr. Margaret Bridgman. After visits to more than eighty colleges around the country, the National League of Nursing Education invited her to continue the work under the new National League for Nursing in 1952. This report presents her findings.
MARGARET BRIDGMAN was academic dean of Skidmore College.
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Published in 1937 to serve as a course plan, How to Interpret Social Work focuses on how to talk about social work in a range of public spheres, from informal and familiar approaches to more formalized and skilled techniques needed in addressing the general public.
HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.
MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States
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Published in 1914, Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States served as a handbook for social workers interested in the care of disabled children. It provides information regarding hospitals, institutions, and asylums dedicated to crippled youth, particularly the state institutions in Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, and Nebraska. Topics include education and vocational training, as well as detailed descriptions of the construction of physical spaces for disabled children.
EDITH REEVES was special agent at the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Among School Gardens was written to explain the purposes of school gardens, provide guidance on starting gardens in schools, and to share research on existing gardens.
M. LOUISE GREEN, M.Pd., Ph.D. (Yale), New York Charities Publication Committee
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