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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1982
With expiration of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) impending, the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed four types of adult-oriented service: classroom training, on-the-job training, work experience, and public service employment. The GAO researched and synthesized program administrative data and the results…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
McLanahan, Sara; And Others – 1985
Five papers which criticize Charles Murray's book, "Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980" are presented in this report. In general, the papers dispute Murray's thesis that the poor did not benefit from social policies but were, instead, substantially harmed by these programs. The papers (and their authors) are: (1)…
Descriptors: Blacks, Crime, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1978
This booklet presents the comments and recommendations of the Regents of the University of the State of New York to the second session of the 95th Congress. The booklet focuses on six main recommendations of the regents. First, Congress should carefully consider Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, with special attention to more…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
McIntyre, Catherine; And Others – 1977
An evaluation was conducted of the effectiveness of the 12 LULAC [League of United Latin American Citizens] National Education Service Centers, Inc. (LNESC), which assist Hispanic and other educationally deprived students in pursuing post-secondary education. The evaluation focused on three LNESC objectives: (1) to increase the number of persons…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Admission, Community Organizations, Economically Disadvantaged
Hass, Gerald; Scovell, Melvin – 1977
Provided are guidelines on administration, diagnosis, and treatment in federally funded EPSDT--Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Programs, a system for providing health care services to Medicaid-eligible children. Detailed in part one are factors involved in developing EPSDT programs. Four chapters consider the need for EPSDT,…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Carter, Cynthia A., Ed. – 1978
This report offers a title-by-title analysis of Public Law 95-561, the Education Amendments of 1978, as well as actual texts of the conference committee report and the legislation itself. Broken down by titles, the analyses cover technical assistance to meet special educational needs of children; basic skills improvement; special projects and new…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Community Schools
Mediax Associates, Inc., Westport, CT. – 1978
This evaluation of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Program in the District of Columbia public schools addresses four general issues: (1) the extent to which the program was implemented as planned; (2) the extent of participation by identified target populations; (3) assessments of the program by participating professional and other adult…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Cultural Isolation, Economically Disadvantaged
Keppler, Mark; Juelich, Mike – 1980
This study analyzes private sector training programs that benefit economically disadvantaged (CETA-eligible) persons. Information on ten private sector training programs in seven states (Iowa, Florida, Maryland, California, Kansas, Mississippi, and New York) collected from a mailed eleven-page questionnaire, a follow-up telephone interview, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Higman, Howard; And Others – 1965
A 1965 summer training program for 90 VISTA volunteers at Monte Vista, Colorado, is described and evaluated in this report. The program was designed to prepare VISTA trainees to work in poverty areas by providing individual helping services and by planning and organizing community action. The trainees lived and worked in Monte Vista, a small…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Services, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Washington Research Project, Washington, DC. – 1969
This report deals with the aid to local school systems with high concentrations of children from low-income families, but excludes treatment of two other categories of financial assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I--aid to children of migrant workers and American Indian children attending schools operated by the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Sciara, Frank J. – 1972
Project BIG (Black Image Growth) was designed as an attempt to build self-pride in black fourth grade children through the inclusion of black Indiana history in their curriculum. Commercially available materials could not be used since few of the project children possessed the necessary reading skills. An attempt was made to create a variety of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Black History, Black Students, Curriculum Development
Texley, Lloyd C.; Dvorak, Ronald S. – 1973
The purposes of the Multiple Activities Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, were: (1) to supplement the instructional program for educationally disadvantaged children by developing a curriculum and techniques, specifically in reading, which would raise their achievement level commensurate with their…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Keyserling, Mary Dublin – 1971
An overview of the present shortage of day care facilities in the United States is presented in this speech. Statistics cited on the number of working mothers with children under the age of 6 and the number of day care licensed homes and centers show that the shortage of licensed day care facilities is much more acute than it was five years ago.…
Descriptors: Child Care, Day Care, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women
Doeringer, Peter B.; And Others – 1972
Recognizing the inadequacies of the theoretical framework upon which the Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) was constructed, an effort was made to develop a more useful set of assumptions by which the program could be appraised more critically. Summarized in this document are the outcomes of attempts to construct an analytic framework within…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedPope, Jacqueline – Black Scholar, 1988
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is unsatisfactory: it is biased against the poor, and allows the government to control the poor. Evaluates Massachusetts' Employment and Training (ET) program, and New Jersey's Realizing Economic Achievement (REACH) program. Offers recommendations for REACH and for an improved Federal welfare program.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit), Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
