The manual provides information on incentives for employers and businesses hiring persons with special needs in rural areas. A list of facts is presented to dispel common myths employers may have regarding workers with disabilities. Monetary incentive programs, including federal/state programs and programs for specific disabling conditions, are…

This document comprises resource materials on the education of homeless children. It is divided into three parts. Part 1, "Overview," collects publications of the Center for Law and Education, and articles and editorials from "Education Week" and "The New York Times." Part 2, "Relevant Statutes and…

This report concerns the coordination of goals, objectives, and activities of agencies which have responsibilities for programs and activities related to child abuse and neglect, as required by P.L. 93-247, as amended. It describes some of the combined efforts of federal agencies and other organizations for the calendar years 1983 and 1984 and…

The Effective Schools and Even Start Act is a bill aiming to increase school effectiveness and to reduce adult illiteracy. This hearing report school effectiveness and to reduce adult illiteracy. This report presents the testimony of witnesses and includes materials which outline the extent to which various states are using state funds and…

This index contains accession numbers from the ERIC and AIM/ARM (Abstracts of Instructional and Research Materials in Vocational and Technical Education) systems under which products of career education projects funded under Part C and Part D of Public Law 90-576 may be retrieved. The work is subdivided into four separate indexes, according to…

The monograph provides an overview of inservice education issues related to P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act; and considers approaches to designing and implementing statewide inservice training programs. Considered in the first section are the following topics: inservice provisions of P.L. 94-142; the proliferation of…

For the migrant child, mobility disrupts the continuity and sequencing of reading skills instruction and makes the maintenance of adequate progress records very difficult. A study, covering the years from 1965 to 1979 and tracing the development of selected approaches to providing continuity in reading progress, begins with a description of the…

THE NEED FOR AN ADULT BASIC EDUCATION CENTER IS ILLUSTRATED BY STATISTICS ON ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES FROM THE 1960 CENSUS. ELEVEN PERCENT OF ADULTS WERE FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE AND NEARLY 2.3 MILLION HAD NEVER BEEN ENROLLED IN A SCHOOL. CONCERN TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD IS SHOWN IN UNESCO'S RESOLUTION AND…

Hearing before the Senate Special Committee on Aging was held to consider the need for funds to provide professional training in the field of gerontology as authorized under the Older Americans Act. Provision for special skills training was made under title IV of the Act but no funds were included for it in the 1975 and 1976 budgets. A statement…

Following an analysis of Vermont's present system of allocating state and federal vocational education funds, alternative formulas and methods for allocation are presented. The first chapter focuses on concerns raised with the present system, particularly the data used to allocate money and the focus on concern for distribution across institutions…

Presented is the text of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142) designed to amend the Education of the Handicapped Act. Among provisions of the Act are a strict due process guarantee, incentives to local school districts and states to provide preschool services, and significant new funding formulae for funding…

A report on the need for gifted education was prepared by the Michigan Association for the Academically Talented for the Michigan State Legislature. Included are a brief description of relevant research on the gifted, an analysis of federal legislation for the gifted, an analysis of state legislation in fifteen states that includes definitions of…

A report of the first conference on implementing State early childhood programs, sponsored by the ECS Early Childhood Project, is presented. Speeches provided are: (1) "The States Are Moving in Child Development" by Robert E. McNair; (2) "Our Evolving Social Policy for Children: Fact or Fiction" by Edward Zigler; (3) "State Responsibility and…

After a brief discussion of the Johnson-O'Malley Program in Nevada, the State's expenditures for the fiscal year July 1, 1971, to June 30, 1972, are reported. Nevada's Indian Education Program is the result of the Johnson-O'Malley Act (JOM), which provides funds for the administration of the program and for the payment of tuition to school…

This list of exemplary projects in vocational education includes one from each state, plus one each from Puerto Rico, the Trust Territories of the Pacific, and Guam. Two are reported for the state of Minnesota. The grant number, project director and grantee including an address, project title, duration data, and the amount of federal funds…