The keynote speaker at a regional meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children notes increasing federal support for programs serving the handicapped, recommends continuance of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped as an advocacy agency, and stresses the right to equal educational opportunities for all Americans. (DB)

Based upon evaluations of 50 agencies as part of the Programmatic Research Project on the Rehabilitation of Homebound Persons, the booklet offers information for successfully administering homebound rehabilitation programs for handicapped individuals. Characteristics of New York's successful program are pointed out in the first chapter. Subsequent…

The text of oversight hearings on proposals to extend the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) includes presentations on the operation of programs authorized under the act. The measure, initially passed in 1964, has provided library services for those without access to them; these included the handicapped, hospitalized, disadvantaged…

The report provides a source of data on the financial support received by full-time graduate students in each of four divisions within each Ontario university. Incomes of Ph.D. students registered for all three terms of the academic year have been included in separate tables. No interinstitutional comparisons are made. (Author/MSE)

The historical development of private universities in Japan is traced, with special attention to the Imperial Ordinance of University of 1918, and postwar developments. The present state of private universities is examined, considering especially their role in national education, finances and financial support, and public support of the…

This report examines public television from the perspectives of the National System, Local Public Television, and School Programing. It provides a history of the development of Public Broadcasting nationally, and includes the points of controversy between the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). A…

This statistical report presents an overview of the current status of public broadcasting. Separate sections deal with the development of public broadcasting, finance, broadcast content, national interconnection services, public broadcasting audience, and employment of broadcast personnel. An appendix provides definitions of selected terms related…

This paper discusses a number of topics related to the educational role and financial support of nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in the United States, with emphasis on the importance of private philanthropy in providing financial support for such schools. Section 1 briefly examines the scope of nonpublic elementary and secondary…

The Parents' Confidential Statement (PCS) of the College Scholarship Service is designed to provide the aid administrator with the information necessary to make judgments on who receives aid. This booklet is designed to help aid administrators who wish to verify the information parents provide in support of the financial aid applications for their…

The House of Representatives voted that the National Science Foundation (NSF) must submit a list of all proposed grant awards to Congress every 30 days as well as justifications for them. The award of any grant can be vetoed by either house within 30 days. This supplants the current method of peer reviews of grant applications. (MLH)

The excerpts from four speeches at the National Adult Education Conference deal with the distribution of tasks of the State, communes, and organizations of free cultural activities in the field; administrative questions; and economic responsibilities. (Author/BP)

History of the Library Services and Construction Act, and the relationship between social and political conditions and library funding. (LS)

The history and impact of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title II, including a review of major studies and a discussion of the concept of consolidation of educational funding. (LS)

A proposal from the governor of Pennsylvania for financing all levels of education through a National Education Trust Fund (NETF) that would operate as the present Federal Highway Trust Fund does on a revolving, self-liquidating basis with the cost of an individual's education repaid through a progressive education tax on income. (JT)