Authors take a critical look at the HEW Task Force on Higher Education and the recent article by its chairman, Frank Newman. (Ed.)

The Republican Congresswoman from Massachusetts reports on an all-day hearing held in Fall River, Massachusetts during 1972 to establish a state-wide, federally-assisted day care system. (DS)

Evaluating a federal agency's success in stimulating and broadening the program efforts of community organizations present a challenge to social science researchers. The authors describe a methodology developed and used effectively in one metropolitan area to measure program change. They identify and utilize the findings to show how greater change…

Significant monetary benefits, due mainly to increased and improved labor market participation, found in combined in-school and summer Neighborhood Youth Corps programs, although no net benefit in high school retention and graduation rates. (MF)

To find a solution to the many economic, health, and education problems confronting the American Indian, it is proposed that a National Conference on American Indians be called by the president. Such a conference, patterned after previous White House Conferences, would give Indians an opportunity to address themselves to the resolution of their…

The University Year for Action is a federally funded program that lets students work firsthand with some of the problems of our society; drug abuse, poverty, the elderly, and the mentally ill. (PG)

Federally financed art programs were established in five Baltimore County schools in 1967 to provide additional art classes for culturally deprived pupils. (DS)

Describes a tuition assistance program offered by the Manpower Opportunity Program, an OEO-funded agency in Arizona, which provides financial assistance and supportive services for migrant seasonal farm workers and their children to obtain a higher education. (RJ)

Describes the growing federal commitment to provide government services for rural areas comparable to those available in urban areas. (BH)

The U.S. Office of Education, charges Congresswoman Green, is a never-never land of poor business judgment with incredible laxity in letting, monitoring, and evaluating contracts and grants. (Author)

The commissioner's defense against Congresswoman Green's charges of mismanagement in the U.S. Office of Education. (JF)

In writing on the subject of industrial education in the early years of the century, Dewey's strategy was to describe the possibilities for imaginative educational uses of industrialism and to contrast these with wrong tendencies in the vocational education movement. (Author/MB)

An administrator's guide to the ingredients of career education. Tells how to get additional funds under the Vocational Education Amendments. (JF)