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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study was conducted of the use of outcome measurement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and states to determine whether JOBS (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) program participants are finding employment and leaving welfare. In order to assess the progress that HHS has made in establishing outcome indicators and goals,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Federal Programs, Information Needs, Job Training
Nelson-Barber, Sharon; Trumbull, Elise; Koelsch, Nanette; Beller, Floyd O.; Sherman, Kerry; Subramanian, Mukund – 1998
This directory provides brief descriptions and contact information for indigenous education resources in four Western states: Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. The first section lists national associations, organizations, clearinghouses, and centers concerned with American Indian education and based in one of the four states. Sections on each…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Colleges, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLaws, Priscilla W.; Hastings, Nancy Baxter – Change, 2002
Discusses how the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) has funded projects successfully influencing the way undergraduate science and mathematics are taught around the nation. (EV)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Science, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
A chart offers data on federal appropriations for education in the following areas: student assistance; graduate support; institutional aid; bilingual education; library resources; aid to disadvantaged; education for disabled; and miscellaneous programs. Data are for fiscal 1994 spending, fiscal 1995 presidential request, fiscal 1995 approved by…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
US Department of Education, 2010
This paper provides an overview of U.S. Department of Education programs authorized and funded under federal law. It includes information as well on the laboratories, centers, and other facilities funded by the Department that provide important resources for education. Readers will find funding information, contact information, and a web site for…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Public Agencies, Educational Improvement, Adult Education
Bosworth, Brian – Complete College America, 2010
Since President Obama took office, he has repeatedly called for the United States to significantly improve its postsecondary education performance. One goal in particular has gained wide attention: the President's declaration that in an ever more competitive global marketplace, the United States must once again lead the world in college…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1995
This report presents an assessment of the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the new Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP) by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (ACSFA), along with recommendations to help improve FFELP and FDLP. It found that congressional priorities and the…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Federal Programs, Higher Education, Information Systems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1994
This document records the oral and written testimony of persons who testified before or prepared reports for a Congressional hearing on the usefulness of the JOBS (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program). Witnesses included persons who had participated in the programs as well as state and local administrators of JOBS programs, national…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, High School Equivalency Programs, Job Training
Western Job Training Partnership Association, Sacramento, CA. – 1996
The Western Job Training Partnership Association (WJTPA) supports the periodic evaluation of the scope and effectiveness of national, state, and local work force preparation and work force education programs. The WJTPA believes that future programs must correct the problems inherited from earlier work force preparation programs, such as the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Policy Formation
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1993
This report records the testimony presented by Clarence C. Crawford, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Human Resources, of the General Accounting Office, on the effectiveness of Title IIA of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in meeting the employment and training needs of economically disadvantaged adults and youth. His…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1998
This report presents the student loan default rate for individual postsecondary institutions for fiscal years (FY) 1994, 1995, and 1996. Cohort default rates are cataloged by state and in descending order of the cohort default rate. Types of loan programs in which schools are currently participating are also listed for each school. Included for…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Loan Default
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
A review was conducted of two issues related to the participation rate requirements of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) component of the Family Support Act of 1988: (1) the extent to which states have served those most at risk of long-term welfare dependency--the least job-ready--relative to other Aid for Families with Dependent…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged, Eligibility
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Charleston, WV. – 1993
This directory lists over 400 organizations and resources related to American Indian education and the education of Native peoples in Alaska, Hawaii, the American territories, Canada, and other nations. Entries are categorized as: (1) international associations of indigenous peoples; (2) national associations, organizations, clearinghouses, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Georgia State Dept. of Labor, Atlanta. – 1991
A study in Georgia evaluated the pre-program to post-program changes in employment, earnings, and welfare dependency for the 6,693 Title II-A adults that occurred between application and participant follow-up 13 weeks after leaving the state's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program during the 1989-90 program year. Findings revealed…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. – 1990
This hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, addresses the implications of the anticipated failure of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF), the largest guarantor of student loans. HEAF's difficulties have affected Sallie Mae (Student Loan Marketing Association), and have raised general questions about the…
Descriptors: Banking, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Hearings
