Information included in this report consists of a breakdown of fund allocations to local and state institutions whose programs aimed at the following areas: compensatory education, handicapped children, American Indian children, migrant children, delinquent children, and neglected children. Charts show the number of children by grades…

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…

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…

The evaluation data for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and State operated dormitories for Native Alaskans is contained in this section of the Project Alaskan Native Needs Assessment. An instrument, originally developed for Project Off-Reservation Boarding Schools, 1972 (ED068237) evaluation, was selected. Eleven procedures for the use of the…

As part of the activities establishing the National Institute of Education, a Planning Unit evolved to obtain advice from experts on the objectives, activities, and organizational structure of the new organization. The Planning Unit studies include this paper which traces the nature and evolution of Federal program development in education…

This report, the second of two volumes, contains a summary of some of the findings and recommendations resulting from research of the Child Development Associate (CDA) Training Program performed by the National Planning Association (NPA). Three areas are reviewed: (1) the involvement of states in CDA credentialing, including an analysis of present…

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…

Dealing with an analysis and evaluation of community action programs (provided for by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964) in Appalachia, this report presents 3 conditions for program success: (1) adequate community action leadership at the local level; (2) power holders at the community, county, or "local" level who are sympathetic, or…

This report contains four major evaluation sections, each of which involves various subsections: (1) Baseline (demographic) data report--all raw data pertinent to this subject is reported in Appendix A; (2) Training Effectiveness Report--raw data in Appendix B; (3) Product Evaluation Report--raw data in Appendix C; and, (4) Process Evaluation…

This report evaluates an ESEA Title I 1970 summer program, conducted in and by the Passaic Public Schools (New Jersey), that enrolled 393 children in grades 2-6. The project aimed at improving the reading skills of the English speaking children and the English language skills of the non-English speaking children. Other aspects of the program…

This report evaluates Higher Ground, an ESEA Title I project conducted in and by the metropolitan public schools of Nashville, Tennessee. The project focused on five activity areas: reading improvement programs, kindergarten programs for 5-year-olds, health and nutrition services, outdoor education, and multidisciplinary team intervention.…

A number of criticisms of the National School Lunch Program are substantiated by a structural analysis within the general context of national child nutrition needs. The National School Lunch Program has been criticized principally on the ground of inadequate coverage of child nutrition needs, particularly for poor children. For the year 1968,…

In general, civil rights staff in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have agreed that Title IV, 1964 Civil Rights Act grants should support Title VI enforcement efforts by providing a carrot of Title IV money to complement the stick of Title VI enforcement. How best to utilize Title IV grants for this purpose, however, has been the…

An in-house assessment of the New Careers program, nationwide, covered 112 projects. Information was obtained on program components, enrollee data, effect of affiliation, and benefits and costs of training. The report describes types of agencies training new careerists, recruitment and selection procedures, supportive services being used,…

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…