This report provides a comprehensive picture of total federal financial support for education for fiscal years 1980 through 1988. Outlays were used in this report rather than obligations, with the exception of academic research at institutions of higher education. Federal support for education falls into three categories: on-budget support,…

Minimum competency testing (MCT) programs for students are growing in popularity and being adopted by many states. In order to determine the extent of the MCT movement, researchers at North Carolina State University surveyed state departments of education in all 50 states. In updating these data for 1986-1987, it was found that 64 percent of the…

A series of tables are presented, providing a 15-year analysis of enrollment, student demographic characteristics, and first census weekly student contact hours (WSCH) by division at College of the Sequoias (COS). Data indicate: (1) total enrollment increased from 5,447 in 1970 to 7,587 in 1985, peaking in 1981 with a high of 7,625 students; (2)…

This report represents the first comprehensive summary of child abuse and neglect reporting in Colorado. Section I of this report presents an initial summary listing the number of confirmed and unconfirmed reports of abuse over a 14-year period and a look at key findings based on analysis of confirmed reports. Data and analyses are presented in…

The document describes findings of a study of the cost of special education and related services for handicapped children, using information from a national survey taken in 1977-1978. Twenty chapters cover the following study components: objective of the study; summary of study findings; description of sample states and localities; data collection…

The goal of the Elementary and Middle School Readinq and Communication Skills Component of the Detroit School desegregation plan was to improve students' reading achievement. The major facet of the program was a reading instruction management system called the Detroit Objective-Referenced Tests System (DORT). DORT is a diagnostic-prescriptive…

Oriented toward a direct instructional routine in preparation for regular school, the Philadelphia Prekindergarten Head Start Program (PKHS) provides experiences to counter-balance effects of social and economic disadvantagement; parent involvement; staff development; and special supportive services. It employs five instructional models: Bank…

An investigation was conducted at Prince George's Community College to determine Fall 1980 course passing rates within college divisions and departments; passing rates and grade distributions in courses using different modes of instruction; within-term course withdrawal rates; term-to-term retention and attrition rates; students' reasons for…

The tables in this report summarize each state's revenues and expenditures for 1977. Information presented for each state includes per capita amounts of financial items; relation of finances to personal income; revenue by source; expenditure by character and object and by type and function; intergovernmental expenditure by type of receiving…

A policy-focus Delphi study was conducted to identify the barriers which prohibit handicapped students from entering or completing vocational technical programs in community colleges in Texas and to identify recommendations and tasks relating to the removal of these barriers. A seventy-two member participant group, which included a nineteen member…

This document is primarily intended as a companion piece to Volume I, which is entitled Description of CMTI. The first volume is, essentially, a description of the 1977 Teacher Corpsmember Training Institute, while the second volume is an analysis of the data contained in the first document. Volume Two is divided into four parts. Chapter One is a…

The Iowa-UPSTEP program appears to be a highly successful teacher education program. Current students feel relatively positive about their experiences and post graduates seem to be highly competent teachers. The program is a four-year, clinically-oriented science teacher preparation program providing undergraduates with early opportunities to deal…

Part of a three-volume report on the effects of school finance reform, this volume examines the effects of reform on Michigan school districts' budgets from 1971 to 1976. Econometric models were used. Researchers found a very small "price" effect--an elasticity of -.02. The data provide no evidence that state matching grants stimulate…

This is the fifth edition of a publication (bilingual--English and French) on continuing education offered by publicly supported educational institutions. The statistics contained in this booklet cover enrollments in credit and (predominantly) non-credit courses from July, 1977 through June, 1978 in Canadian establishments of higherlearning. The…

This report is intended to provide statistical data that may be useful to organizations undertaking affirmative action programs with respect to minority groups. Its data are limited to the doctoral level (PhD, EdD, ScD and equivalent) but do not include such professional degrees as MD, DDS, DVM, or JD. It includes data on Blacks, Orientals,…