The illustrated booklet provides a brief history of Federal prisons and of Federal women's prisons. There is statistical information on women prisoners classified by age, race, period of confinement, marital status, type of crime, and judicial district from which the commitment was made. Tables for the Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson, West…

During one year as a 1968-69 U.S. Office of Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, the author attended three USOE orientation sessions and ten professional conferences and wrote three papers for presentation at these conferences. He conducted research on educational testing and methods of test analysis, and…

Texts of major education and training laws amended by the first session of the 90th Congress are included in this appendix to ED 029 096: (1) Elementary and Secondary Education Act, (2) Public Law 874, (3) Public Law 815, (4) Adult Education Act, (5) Cooperative Research Act, (6) Higher Education Act, (7) National Defense Education Act, (8)…

A non-technical synthesis of the major developments in programed instruction serves as an introduction to the content of this paper. The paper includes some determination of the extent to which programed materials are being used by Federal agencies and how these uses compare with those found by Bryan and Nagay in an earlier study. The paper…

This book reports a research project which had two major functions: (1) to describe the extent of AID (Agency for International Development) involvement in teacher education and (2) to see if generalizations could be extracted which might be useful as guidelines to AID or other institutions participating in similar future projects. The report,…

Objectives of the Department of Labor grants program, program activities, the scope of the program, and the National Occupational Information Service (NOIS), being established in the Manpower Administration, are briefly described. All but three pages consist of Department of Labor announcements of vacancies in NOIS in 1974. (NH)

This paper posits that it is necessary to evoke the development of an adequate federal KPU (Knowledge Production and Utilization) program in education which will command broad-based support within and outside the profession and that this demands a reformulation of the conceptual structure on which the program is built. Section 1 offers a…

Service centers in Illinois and teacher centers funded by the federal government are compared with regard to structure, function, clientele, and success criteria. The paper utilizes comparative analysis of documents that conceptualize service centers and teacher centers; logical analysis deals with the constraints imposed upon center concepts by…

The National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development has been reviewing some of the major evaluations and evaluation research in the period 1966 to date, seeking to identify the salient issues concerning the evaluation of educational endeavors. This document is a preliminary statement of the findings and recommendations. The interest…

Three major goals of vocational education are presented: a) meeting the manpower needs of society, b) increasing options available to each individual, and c) lending intelligibility to general education. Educational background and economic characteristics of professionals in the field are detailed as are legislative histories of the Manpower…

This study guide is for the use of community workers who instruct members of their community in a basic social security course. The course is divided into five sessions of approximately 2 hours each. The guide, to be used by the instructor in a lecture/discussion setting, contains four Course Units: 1. Introduction, 2. How Quarters of Coverage Are…

A conference on research for better schools was held to focus on the expressed needs of educators in Tennessee. The following discussion papers were provided to summarize available research data: Trends in Federal Programs for the 70's (RC 005 390); Review and Synthesis of Research on Vocational Education in Rural Areas (ED 034 632); Student…

The Title III program of ESEA that supports the arts in education is discussed. Included in the report are the following topics: (1) Analysis of Projects by Art Form Category (Visual Arts, Music, Theatre, Combinations of the Arts, and General Projects that Include the Arts); (2) Analysis of Projects by Educational Function; (3) Relative Emphasis…

The need for day care services is steadily growing as more mothers enter the labor force. This booklet describes the major efforts being made to provide these services. Included are efforts by all levels of government, unions and management, hospitals and universities, women's groups, and other public and private programs. (BH)

This is a report of a campus tour led by US Representative Bill Brock of Tennessee to gain a better understanding of student unrest. The 22 participating Congressment were divided into 6 regional groups which together visited over 50 universities of all types and sizes. Their report discusses a series of issues named by students as major sources…