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Orkwis, Raymond; DeCarme, Judi; Glover, Jeanne – 2000
This 5-volume directory describes more than 1,200 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into sections representing the seven program areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments (1997), Part D. This volume, the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
Thompson, Frank V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The influence of industrial vocational education is having its effect upon practices and methods of commercial education. The practice of industrial education of analyzing a curriculum of subjects containing values of vocational work, related vocational, and non-vocational subjects is causing the examination of commercial education with a view to…
Descriptors: Business Education, Secondary Education, School Surveys, Industrial Education
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education (OE). Among topics covered are the education budget; OE reorganization; educational priorities, including basic skills, binding school to work, higher education, education of the handicapped; legislation, including the 1978…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Budgets, Organization, Basic Skills
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Brinkley, Alan – Social Education, 1996
Characterizes the New Deal as "the single most important twentieth-century episode in the creation of the modern American state." Discusses the astonishing range of legislative activity enacted to respond to the Great Depression and the ensuing political opposition. Frankly evaluates those programs that failed. (MJP)
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Capitalism, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
Burd, Stephen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
The implications of the 1998 Higher Education Act Amendments for students and institutions are summarized, including those for federal student financial aid programs, loan guarantee agency reforms, distance-education programs, student and institutional eligibility, campus crime, college costs, federal outreach and student service programs,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Area Studies, Crime, Distance Education
Scott, George A. – Government Accountability Office, 2007
Institutions that may receive funding under Titles III and V include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Alaska Native Serving Institutions, Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and other postsecondary institutions that serve low-income students. In fiscal year 2006, these programs…
Descriptors: Grants, Tribally Controlled Education, Alaska Natives, Black Colleges
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Agriculture. – 1995
This volume compiles and reprints the responses of 37 organizations to a series of questions issued by the House Committee on Agriculture in anticipation of debates concerning the Research Title of the 1995 Farm Bill due for updating and revision. The questions address some of the following topics: the role of the federal government in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences, College Role, Cooperative Programs
Orkwis, Ray; DeCarme, Judi; Glover, Jeanne – 1998
This five-volume directory describes almost 1,200 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into five sections representing the seven program areas of the newly reauthorized IDEA, Part D. This volume, the fourth of the directory, describes…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Captions, Cultural Enrichment, Disabilities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education. – 1992
In one of a series of hearings held in communities around the nation on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met to hear testimony from higher education professionals, business people, and students in the state of Hawaii. In particular the witnesses, grouped in seven panels, testified…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Phelps, L. Allen – 1984
This policy analysis focuses on identifying optimal federal fiscal policies for achieving desired programmatic and student outcomes on behalf of special populations in vocational education (i.e., disadvantaged, limited-English-proficient, and handicapped persons, and students interested in nontraditional careers). The present status of unserved…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, English (Second Language)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1983
The Indian education oversight hearing of May 18 and 19, 1982, focused on federal responsibility for the education of Indians; Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) education services (including BIA elementary and secondary schools and contract schools); proposed transfer of the Indian Education Act, Title IV, program from the Department of Education to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Boarding Schools
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
This document, a transcript of a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on a Reagan Administration proposal, discusses consolidation of existing federal vocational and adult education programs, simplification of requirements for states and other recipients participating in federal vocational and adult education programs, authorization of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Disabilities, Dislocated Workers
Gaffney, Michael J.; Schember, Daniel M. – 1982
Drawing on data from a study of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), this report focuses on Title I's supplement-not-supplant and excess costs provisions and their effects on program design. Following discussions of the legal framework of Title I and Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA), the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Educational Equity (Finance)
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1986
Economic, social, and demographic changes in the last 30 years have resulted in a massive restructuring of the American work force. Consequently, increasing numbers of employees can be expected to experience difficulties balancing family-and-work concerns. There is no consensus in the United States today regarding the responsibility for helping…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Day Care, Employee Assistance Programs, Employment Patterns
Boren, Susan; And Others – 1987
The provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 (P.L. 99-498), which is the major piece of legislation reauthorizing the Higher Education Act of 1965 through 1991, are delineated. A synopsis of the legislative history of this act is provided along with a brief description of the passage of the Higher Education Amendments of 1986. A…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, American Indians, Cooperative Programs, Educational Administration
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