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Weiler, Daniel; And Others – 1974
The Education Voucher Demonstration is a large-scale educational and social intervention that began in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, San Jose, California, in September 1972. First funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, it is now sponsored by the National Institute of Education. This report describes the development of…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Vouchers, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Download full textGeorge Washington Univ., Washington, DC. National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services. – 1974
Projects funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) are discussed, with the focus on individualized instruction projects. The locale of the projects varies from Texas to Chicago, New Jersey to California, Kentucky to Minnesota, and others. The topics of some of the projects are pre-school students, handicapped…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Handicapped Students
Harrison, Helene W. – 1973
The 1973 report evaluates the Bilingual Education Program of Harlandale Independent School District. The bilingual program is designed for Spanish speaking pupils in grades K-5 (1,517 children in 8 of the district's 15 elementary schools) who have limited English-speaking ability. The 1972-73 project involved (1) development and revision of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Federal Programs
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1973
As the seventh in a series of reports resulting from an ongoing review and evaluation of the Department of Labor's implementation of the Emergency Employment Act (EEA) of 1971, the report cites jobs in public service areas provided by EEA funds: law enforcement, education, public works and transportation, health and hospitals, environmental…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Grosse, Robert N.; And Others – 1969
This report examines the quality and rigor of evaluation practices at the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), and the extent to which evaluation results have influenced program design and operation. Because of the innovative nature of the programs, and a resulting lack of reliable data, past attempts at comprehensive evaluation have been…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Hedrick, James L. – 1969
This report provides an overview of the poverty problem and possible solutions. The available statistics and their limitations are summarized. The complementary roles of income-maintenance and employment policies are discussed. Because employment policies are limited to those who can be made employable, the report concludes that liberal changes in…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Guaranteed Income
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1970
The U.S. Comptroller General's Office has compiled a report on the administration and effectiveness of Federal programs under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for children living in school-attendance areas having high concentrations of children from low-income families in West Virginia. As stated in the document, review of the…
Descriptors: Administration, Attendance, Educational Improvement, Educationally Disadvantaged
Spache, George D. – 1970
The author quotes the statement that the primary goal of the Research and Development Program on Reading is to "produce functional reading competence on the part of all persons reading age 10." In evaluating this goal, he considers it to be questionable for several reasons. First, there is no high correlation between reading ability at the age of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Developmental Reading, Federal Programs, Illiteracy
Harwood, Edwin; Olasov, Robert – 1968
To evaluate the effect of three Houston Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) out-of school programs on work attitudes and job futures of poverty youth as well as to provide recommendations for program improvement, statistical data were gathered from NYC sponsors' reports and from the trainees' personal folders. The accuracy of the data is limited…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development, Labor Utilization
Rost, Paul; And Others – 1972
Albuquerque's Title I evaluation staff is in the process of generating a comprehensive local evaluation design because it considers the federally required product evaluation unsatisfactory. The required mean-gain comparisons were extended beyond the dimension of program to the dimensions of school, grade, and Title I instructor. This evaluation…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Mentec Corp., Los Angeles, CA. – 1971
To evaluate the effectiveness of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional training program in preparing trainees for employment, interviews were held with administrative personnel, employers, counselors, and trainees. The survey revealed that completion rates are generally low, due to excessive counselor case loads, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged
American Association of Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. Program with Developing Institutions. – 1972
This report on the AAJC Program With Developing Institutions (PWDI) summarizes the evolution and activities of the program with special emphasis on 1971-72, the fourth and final year of operation. Evaluations of the program by the participating colleges are included, and where possible, compared to corresponding evaluations of past years. Other…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Developing Institutions, Developmental Programs, Educational Development
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Equal Opportunity. – 1972
In its 1971 report, the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) evaluates its efforts and accomplishments in the following 4 areas: (1) application of compliance and enforcement measures to assure equal access for all citizens to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs, (2) evaluation of program participation data to monitor progress in…
Descriptors: Business, Civil Rights, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Social Welfare Development and Research Center. – 1975
Two Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I project components for the Maui District, Hawaii are evaluated in this report. These are the reading resource rooms and the preschools. This report makes the following recommendations: follow-through instructional services should be carried into the target pupils' regular classrooms; a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Program Content
Network of Innovative Schools, Inc., Andover, MA. – 1975
The U.S. Office of Education's National Diffusion Network is designed to transport and systematically promote the adoption of validated innovative programs throughout the nation. The 13 case studies in this publication are intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the state facilitator effort and accurately represent the range and diversity…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
