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Download full textMiller, Jeffrey M., Ed. – 1973
In October 1970, the commission published its first of three across-the-board evaluations of the Federal Government's effort to end discrimination against American minorities. In February 1972 the commission chairman and the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed that the commission would provide OMB with a summary of Federal…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Bias, Civil Rights, Economic Opportunities
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Direct linkHaskins, Ron – Education Next, 2004
Project Head Start was created during the heady, idealistic days of the mid-1960s. The idea for Head Start, a preschool program for disadvantaged children, emerged from the observation that, on average, poor and minority children arrive at school already behind their peers in the intellectual skills and abilities required for academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, School Readiness, Minority Group Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1971
This report presents a comprehensive compilation of federal laws affecting education and reflects the latest changes in the laws related to elementary, secondary, higher, and vocational education. The compilation includes the School Lunch and the Child Nutrition Acts. (Author/JF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Civil Rights, Disabilities
