Two anti-poverty programs--investment in education and in highways and other public facilities--should increase earnings and employment through an increase in production possibilities and a fuller utilization of existing resources. In evaluating training programs, there is considerable evidence that training expenditures have a return at least…

The effectiveness of the Department of State's educational and cultural exchange program is studied with special reference to foreign students, leaders, and teachers who have come to the United States on grants. Extensive interviews with former grantees (1949-60) and inquiries among prominent professionals, embassy personnel, and high level…

In order to assess the impact of Title I programs, models specifying criteria, techniques and methodologies for evaluation were developed. These models prescribe pre- and post-test results for both Title I and non Title I children. This report describes the status of the use of the models, the experience of people who used them during the 1976-77…

This publication of Title I in Ohio is stated to provide a summary of activities for fiscal 1973-74 school year and the summer that followed. Each year since 1966, most school districts in Ohio have conducted Title I programs for eligible students, who, for various reasons, have fallen behind their classmates in reading or mathematics. In some…

This book consists of nine articles prepared for a 1973 conference that considered the lessons of two federally funded compensatory education projects of the late 1960s, the Follow Through program and the Head Start Planned Variation program. Both were planned variation programs, under which local communities were invited to design, implement, and…

According to the latest federal guidelines, all projects requesting funding must include the following program features: a systematic plan to eliminate existing sex bias and sex-role stereotyping and to avoid introducing these elements, a third-party objective evaluation of the program's learner benefits, and a strong emphasis on sex-fair…

The National Science Foundation initiated the Science Development Program in 1965 in order to enable selected universities to improve the quality of their resources for science education and research. The specific purpose was to develop the competence of the funded institutions in preparing research scholars (as certified by their awarding of the…

In 1965, the National Science Foundation began an experiment in institutional funding, the Science Development (SD) program. Setting as dual goals an upgrading of the science capabilities of second-tier universities and a broader geographical distribution of scientific resources throughout the nation, this program awarded over $130 million to…

Often federal legislation that creates educational programs also creates advisory councils to review and evaluate these programs. Such councils provide opportunities for close citizen participation in overseeing federal policy. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the life of one such council, the National Advisory Council on…

A complete description of the development of a guide to help authors improve the quality of descriptive evaluation reports of federally funded programs is provided. Improvements in reports would be particularly useful to planners who must decide if and how programs should be modified. The methods and procedures employed in the development of the…

This booklet comprises excerpts from the proceedings of a conference held in Maryland to explore the related themes of accountability and the evaluation of compensatory education. Participants at the conference were administrators, teachers, aides, and parents who met in small-group work sessions. The conference is judged to have succeeded in…

Because it included only public schools and guaranteed both school survival and staff employment rights, the first year of the Alum Rock demonstration (1972-73), as sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity, was not a test of vouchers as defined in theory. The demonstration was known, therefore, as a "transition" voucher model,…

The central issue discussed in this paper on policy issues in early childhood education concerns the locus of primary responsibility for the care and rearing of the infant and young child. To provide an analytic basis for decision-making in early childhood education, the author (1) describes the serious and deepening societal problems that appear…

This handbook has been designed to assist personnel within the Chicago Public Schools to assess the operation of their government funded programs, make certain that these programs are being implemented in accordance with the design as funded, and that they are in compliance with appropriate legislation and guidelines. The handbook establishes a…

The document is an evaluation of the Bilingual Instructional Project in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades of 4 elementary schools in the Harlandale Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, during the 1968-69 school term. Evaluation of the 1st grade included a mental ability and readiness test--pretest and posttest. At the 2nd grade level, the…