The document is a summary of the Missouri State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan, which was designed to provide guidelines for allocation of resources for needed recreation facilities. The plan identifies the present and future needs for outdoor recreation and recommends ways of meeting these needs. This 1967 document provides a brief history…

The annual report of the National Congress of American Indian (NCAI) for 1969 provides a report of the year's work in each major area of NCAI activities, together with an occasional description of specific actions. Also discussed are the present state of Indian affairs, education, and improvement in the liaison activities with the United States…

A system for career advancement in the community action agency must be based on the fundamental principle that it is the responsibility of the community action agency to develop the full potential of the nonprofessional staff. The agency must take the initiative on several aspects of its policy and program. Nonprofessional employees must be able…

This is one of four publications presenting higher education financial data for the fiscal year 1966-67. The other three are Current Funds Revenues and Expenditures, Property, and Student Financial Aid. This publication, Federal Funds, was developed from financial questionnaires as part of the Office of Education's higher education general…

During the 1969-70 academic year at Los Angeles City College, 1,127 items of financial aid were given to 757 students. The purpose of this report is to present information on the number and types of aid administered, the students receiving aid, and findings of preliminary investigation into their effects on academic performance. The kinds of…

Introduced by discussions of the coordination of mental retardation programs, a summary of activities, and a list of the Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation for 1969, the pamphlet reports the activities of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in mental retardation. Activities described include those of the Health Services…

This manual, which will be periodically supplemented and revised, contains reference materials and information relating to the Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) concept. The 4-C program is a mechanism for coordinating federal, state, and local resources to develop day care services in a community. The manual explains the steps for…

The following topics are the subject of capsule summaries of Upward Bound (UB) program techniques that make up the major portion of this book, having been compiled from information submitted by project staff, consultants, and others who have seen Upward Bound in action during the past four years: recruiting students; curriculum, including…

Purpose, teaching program, teachers and principals, students, and school-state relations are various aspects of Finnish provincial folk high schools treated in this document which covers three major periods of development: 1889-1916; 1917-1939; 1946-1966. The schools focused on economics, vocation, retraining, patriotism, social preparedness,…

This bimonthly bulletin reports the current literature in science and public policy. Science is used to denote engineering, technology, and other sciences. The bulletin is intended for persons engaged in studying, formulating, or implementing public policy relating to science and its use. Its purpose is to aid such individuals by alerting them to…

Determination of the need for workshops for handicapped people, development of a new corporation, the adoption of bylaws, financial considerations, federal laws, workshop staff, resource material, state law, regulations, and forms, and procedures for establishing an extended employment workshop are mentioned and expanded in appendixes. Appendixes…

"Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap" by Gertrude Goldberg and Carol Lopate, which makes up the contents of this issue of the IRCD Bulletin, critically reviews income maintenance schemes, social insurance and public assistance programs, family allowances, the negative income tax, and full employment proposals. Of these plans to end poverty the…

The following programs are included: (1) Manpower Development and Training Act, (2) New Careers, (3) Vocational and Technical Education, (4) Work Incentive (WIN), (5) Neighborhood Youth Corps, (6) Demonstration Projects, and (7) Veterans Administration Training Assistance. Information about each program includes nature and purpose, national and…

This report consists of six individual reports that were done by staff members at the Library Research Center as part of the overall project. In Part I, "Financing Public Library Expansion: Case Studies of Three Defeated Bond Issue Referendums," Ruth G. Lindahl and William S. Berner analyze defeated library bond issue referendums in…

This document, based on 3-year summary reports submitted by the participating schools, summarizes programs supported by the Manpower Research Institutional Grant Program under authority of Title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended. In June 1966, the first grants were awarded to seven colleges and universities. The…