In the 1960s a great amount of black students in selective colleges became a political issue Black college applicants scored below whites on all sort of tests. ... The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was designed as a measure of receptive language and has replaced the original Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) published in 1959. ... The percentage of white children who know a PPVT word correlates 0.98 with the percentage of slightly older black children who know the same words as white children. ... The council studied the test scores of 57 urban districts in 35 state...

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While the first wave of these programs were primarily to support women with children, today's work/life programs are less gender-specific and recognize other commitments as well as those of the family (HR Practices). ... As a result, the U.S. management philosophy that expects employees to put work first, ahead of personal lives and family commitments, is becoming less accepted (Alternative). ... Typically, studies have focused on employed men and women who are married or living with a partner of those with children. ... For example, do the work/life programs serve all employees...

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Two different types of sport marketing exists, the first deals with the marketing of a sport, the second the marketing of a company via a sport. ... Although at first sight both investment types (sponsoring and participation) appear to be rather similar, participation is much more expensive, but when a race is won, the possible marketing benefits will also be much higher. ... This is completely different from other types of companies, for example Nike, who are present in many different sports, but also present with many different participants in each sport. ... One of the first to recognize...

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