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Download full textNational Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC. – 1983
This report responds to a National Science Foundation (NSF) request to provide advice on developing Engineering Research Centers, which NSF described as "on-campus centers that would house cross-disciplinary experimental research activities." In addition to conducting such research, the principal purposes of the centers are to provide a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Engineering, Engineering Education, Evaluation Criteria
Domestic Policy Council, Washington, DC. – 1986
This report, along with its supplemental volumes, assesses the welfare system and its successes and failures, describes the frustrations felt by the poor in the United States, and proposes a basic change in public assistance policy. America's state and federal governments spend more than $150 billion a year on programs to alleviate poverty, yet…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Germanis, Peter; Bavier, Richard – 1986
This report provides an overview of the current welfare system. The number and size of federal public assistance programs have increased during the past 25 years, with particular growth in noncash benefit programs, which now constitute about three-quarters of all means-tested assistance. From mid-1983 to mid-1984, more than 52.5 million Americans…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Kogan, Deborah; And Others – 1986
An evaluation of the Multiple Wage Earner (MWE) discretionary grant program and Enhanced Skills Training (EST) program developed by the Department of Health and Human Services is reported. The EST program was intended to reach hard-to-employ refugees through improvement of the quality of jobs available to refugees experiencing difficulties…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employed Parents, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
Guerrero, Frank; And Others – 1990
The Chapter 1 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program provided supplementary, intensive English language instruction to limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in 69 non-public schools in New York City. The program's primary goal was to help LEP students gain the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills necessary to improve their…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Federal Programs
Donaldson, William S. – 1989
This evaluation of a summer remedial education program found that a substantial number of clients demonstrated criterion-assessed growth. The 1989 Summer Academic Skills Achievement Program was funded by the Private Industry Council (PIC) of Franklin County (Ohio) through the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to provide JTPA clients from…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Federal Programs, High School Students
Barker, Linda Toms; And Others – 1986
A study examined the objectives of supported employment programs for individuals with severe disabilities and identified performance measures to document the practices and achievements of such programs at the federal, state, and local levels. A set of proposed data items and potential performance measures was developed on the basis of programs…
Descriptors: Counseling Objectives, Data Collection, Employment Opportunities, Employment Services
National Association of Private Industry Councils, Washington, DC. – 1987
This paper contains four charts that describe the participation of people with disabilities in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs for program year 1986. The first chart displays the state-by-state participation rates for both youth and adults with disabilities in JTPA Title II-A programs. Chart 2 lists the state-by-state participation…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Mei, Dolores M.; And Others – 1988
The Young Diplomats Program: Israeli School-to-School Exchange, sponsored by the New York City Board of Education and the United States Information Agency, was an international exchange involving 15 American and 15 Israeli high school students. Students from five specialized New York and five specialized Israeli high schools participated.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, Foreign Students
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1988
The major purpose of this inquiry is to examine the impact of Chapter 1 services on the School District of Philadelphia since the inception of the program in 1965-66. In addition, the study provides an overview of the Chapter 1 program's impact as the school district's largest and most long-standing remediation program. More specifically, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Washington, DC. – 1983
Satellite telecasts and videotape are discussed in this two-part paper, which is based on the preliminary experiences of Project BEST (Basic Education Skills through Technology), a dissemination project for communicating about the use of technology in teaching basic skills, and providing functional experience with new information communication…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communications Satellites, Design Requirements, Federal Programs
Office of Inspector General (ED), Washington, DC. – 1983
The United States Department of Education (ED), Office of Inspector General (OIG), describes in its semiannual report its provisions for audit, investigation, fraud detection and prevention, as well as other activities. The first section reviews management improvement and preventive activities including recommended changes to legislation and…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. – 1984
This document records hearings before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and its sub-committee on Nutrition. The hearings, dated March 15 and April 9, 1984, were conducted in order to evaluate and reauthorize the special supplemental food program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), due to expire in 1984. Testimony…
Descriptors: Anemia, Birth Weight, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged
Ascher, Carol; Flaxman, Erwin – 1988
Recent evaluations of Federal compensatory education programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I, and maintained by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, Chapter 1, point to qualified effectiveness in the targeting of services, program structures, and classroom arrangements for increasing the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems, Educationally Disadvantaged
Baltimore City Public Schools, MD. – 1982
Evaluation results of 1981 compensatory education programs for fifth through ninth graders in Baltimore, Maryland public and private schools are presented in this report. The program provided compensatory mathematics, reading, and language arts instruction for educationally disadvantaged students, and made available supportive guidance and health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
