The economic impact of the provision of public child care assistance on low income families is evaluated in this report. Data from interviews and records of current and former recipients of 4C child care assistance under Title II in the Orlando Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) during the period 1976-1978 are examined. A brief overview…

The methodology procedures for a national study of vocational education systems and facilities are presented in this third of a four-volume report. Chapter I describes the development of study requirements (analysis of requirements and study development activities) and the development of study implementation (local education agency survey…

This report on child care services is based on: (1) a review of program administration at the central and regional offices of the Social and Rehabilitation Service and the Office of Child Development, and (2) a review of selected child care providers in nine states. The program and fiscal management at each administrative level were evaluated,…

This is the fifth periodic report to the President and to the Congress on "Federal Assistance to Desegregating School Districts" as required under section 714, Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), Title VII of Public Law 92-318, as amended. Under the authority of ESAA, financial assistance was made available for the following purposes: to…

This guide is the result of deliberations at a national conference involving representatives of business, industry, labor, education, government, and the community, and at regional clinics which followed the conference. Chapter headings are: (1) Cooperative Vocational Education and What It Will Do, (2) What Form and Type Is Best for a Specific…

In an examination of the private assumption of public responsibilities, the writer argues that development of the JOBS program occurred relatively smoothly, because the federal government, White House, and a segment of the business community shared a number of assumptions including a willingness to overlook the critical role played by the…

The Emergency School Assistance Program provides grants to school districts to defray the costs of meeting special problems arising from the desegregation of elementary and secondary schools. This report deals with the second of two phases of the review of this program, made at 28 of a sample of 50 participating school districts. The objective of…

This evaluation study of the Educational Opportunities Fund (E.O.F.) was designed to answer eight general questions: (1) to what extent the E.O.F. program has achieved its intended objectives; (2) what byproducts in terms of educational programs, innovations, and so forth the program has produced? (3) how well have the individual E.O.F. projects…

This is a non-technical report based on the final report of the first year evaluation of the Head Start/Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) Collaborative Effort, a demonstration program initiated by the Office of Child Development (OCD)/HEW in 1974. The report presents and analyzes data collected during the first…

Project Choice was begun with the goal of increasing the number of inner-city students who graduate on time. Ewing M. Kauffman and his business and foundation associates designed and elected to test a model that used the promise of postsecondary education or training as the incentive to stay in school. This report details the evolution of Project…

In Project Choice, Ewing Marion Kauffman, through his Kauffman Foundation, offered a college education to inner city youth in selected schools in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. In exchange students and parents agreed among other things that students would avoid disciplinary problems in school and the community, maintain…

Several federal legislative proposals have called for specified minimum pass rates on state teacher licensing examinations to establish institutional eligibility for certain federal funding. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia will use The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers developed by the Educational…

Liberal education projects supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education are described. Many Fund projects are surveyed in order to indicate the range and relevance of their approaches to liberal education. (MLW)

Identifies issues that need to be addressed when planning combined school and public libraries. The importance of defining the role of the libraries and involving all participants in the planning process is stressed, and considerations relating to personnel selection, collection development, funding, and evaluation are discussed. (CLB)

The program of the Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred University (New York) is described, focusing on the center's role in technology transfer, management structure, funding, contract negotiation, intellectual property rights, and evaluation as part of a statewide system of research/development centers. An economic impact study is…