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Hathorn, John R. – 1973
The annual report of the New York Interdepartmental Committee on Indian Affairs which serves 8 Indian reservations within the state of New York documents the 1972-73 services of its various departments and presents the Chairman's report. The Department of Commerce reports that its new Minority Business Office is aggressively seeking Indian…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Annual Reports
Thomas, Thomas C. – 1967
Most of the important educational issues for the country are represented in problems of urban education. This report concentrates on one of the practical issues for the urban education policy maker--education policy for the poor minority child who lives in the inner city. It concerns educational policy for the inner city over the next 10 years.…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Design, Educational Facilities, Educational Objectives
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Appropriations. – 1973
This document examines the scope, operation, and effectiveness of the Education Division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, which is composed of the office of the Assistant Secretary of Education, the Fund for Postsecondary Education, the National Institute of Education, and the U.S. Office of Education. The hearings…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education, Educational Development, Federal Aid
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1969
The Rural Education Subcommittee of the Elementary and Secondary Education Task Force presents findings related to needs of rural education in the United States. Recommendations directed toward the U.S. Office of Education are cited in the following areas: early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, summer programs, occupational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Civil Rights, Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education
National Society of Professional Engineers, Washington, DC. – 1972
The National Society of Professional Engineers, under contract to the Department of Labor, conducted a study to investigate the conversion of technical skills of displaced aerospace and defense professionals to other industries. The Seattle and Wichita study teams, focusing on the food industry, projected that about 200 employment opportunities…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Aerospace Industry, Career Development, Employment Programs
Brown, Edward K. – 1972
A systematic study of the composition and dispersement of Title I projects assigned to elementary schools in Philadelphia was conducted. Categorical variables were identified from four major derived variables (program density code, school aggregate fund, pupil service component, achievement-growth differential score) and four major demographic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Congressional Research Service. – 1976
This publication lists federal programs which provide services relating to child care, grouped under the sponsoring agencies: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Department of Agriculture; Department of Labor, Community Services Administration, Appalachian Regional Commission, Department of the Interior, Internal Revenue Service, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Care, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
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Seitz, Victoria; And Others – 1976
This longitudinal study examined two groups of children, boys in one sample and girls in another, to assess whether programs such as Head Start and Follow Through produce lasting measureable effects. Low-income children were examined separately from middle-income children and, within the low-income sample, a separate analysis was made for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education
Smith, Kenneth D.; Wooldridge, Judith; de Saw, Cheryl; Sinclair, Michael – 2001
The Professional Nurse Traineeship (PNT) program was created to provide nursing schools that place high proportions of their graduates in medically underserved communities with additional funding to support students in graduate nursing education or training. A total of 4,332 nurses who graduated in the academic years of 1996-1997 or 1997-1998 from…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Employment Patterns, Federal Programs
US Department of Education, 2005
From 1993-2002, federal support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities increased by $639 million, or 60 percent, while support for all institutions of higher education (IHEs) increased by 79 percent. The President's Advisory Board on HBCUs is concerned that federal support for HBCUs is not keeping pace with overall federal support for…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Federal Aid, Advisory Committees, Black Colleges
Lombardi, Joan, Ed.; Bogle, Mary M., Ed. – ZERO TO THREE, 2005
Between 1995 and 2004, Early Head Start (EHS) grew from 68 to more than 700 programs nationwide, serving more than 62,000 children and securing the program's reputation as a beacon of hope for the nation's low-income families with infants and toddlers. According to a comprehensive 5-year national evaluation of EHS, children who participated in…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Disadvantaged Youth, Pregnancy, Young Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1997
This seventh hearing in a series related to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act focused on the management structure of the Office of Postsecondary Education and the financial aid delivery system. In the opening statement, Chairman James M. Jeffords reported that the current system is outdated and inefficient and indicated that the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Delivery Systems, Educational Finance, Eligibility
Office of Inspector General (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
This report presents recommendations from the Office of Inspector General for amendments to the 1998 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that are intended to improve integrity of student financial assistance programs and to save taxpayer dollars. Seventeen proposals divided into four areas--institutional eligibility and enforcement;…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Federal Aid
Macro International, Inc., Calverton, MD. – 1997
Volume 1 of this document reports the results of a telephone survey of approximately 3,600 student and parent borrowers who originated loans during the 1994-95 academic year using two Title IV Federal student loan programs, the Direct Loan and the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs. The objective of the survey was to provide baseline…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Finance
Kass, David; Miller, Cate; Rollin, Miriam; Evans, Phil; Shah, Rita – 2003
Asserting that children who are abused or neglected are at risk of becoming future violent criminals, this report argues that this cycle of violence can be prevented by investing in recently confirmed abuse prevention and intervention strategies. The report presents information on the number of deaths each year due to abuse and neglect and calls…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Change Strategies, Child Abuse, Child Care
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