This paper presents a multi-pronged strategy for reducing poverty and unemployment by increasing the number of jobs for unskilled workers and raising their wages. The first component of this strategy is a marginal hours employment tax credit, similar to the recently enacted New Jobs Tax Credit. This would serve to generate an expansion in…

A study was undertaken by the International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm) to examine the feasibility of establishing a network for the coordination of terminological work and the required technical and organizational structure for this type of collaboration. The first half of the study (1) provides an historical perspective of…

This paper presents the eight major categories of recommendations made by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM's) booklet "An Agenda for Action," that are considered components of programs designed to improve mathematics education, and as a by-product, raise mathematics scores of pupils on standardized tests. The three…

This paper outlines the activities of a project that provided proposal development training for educators from three of Virginia's black colleges. The program is described as an attempt to maximize educational research proposal development skills by providing participants with information regarding funding agencies and their priorities, the…

THIS BULLETIN OUTLINES THE BACKGROUND OF PROJECT ABLE, AS A GUIDE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS WISHING TO PLAN AND PROPOSE AN ABLE PROJECT. ABLE IS A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WHICH DEVELOPS, TESTS, AND DISSEMINATES PRACTICES TO IDENTIFY AND HELP CAPABLE PUPILS FROM LOWER SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS. THE OBJECTIVES ARE--(1) INTENSIVE REMEDIAL, INSTRUCTIONAL,…

The handbook is designed for use when requesting State or Federal vocational education funds for projects concerning research and development, teacher education, education professional development, exemplary programs, dissemination-diffusion programs, vocational guidance, planning, data collection and utilization, evaluation, and curriculum…

Proposed is a means of modifying soiling behavior of students (in grades K-3) in a regular classroom. Outlined are daily measurement, baseline, contingency, and teacher training procedures for the system involving verbal praise and activity time rewards. Also described are the evaluation design, special learning materials, and generalization and…

We must know more about adult education, why people enroll, who they are, and what they expect; we must develop new and better techniques for serving them; and we must define the role of government. Some have proposed a National Center for Lifelong Learning, which could interpret data on adult education and serve as the instrument in developing a…

The project proposal describes a resource room program for 15 educable mentally handicapped and 20 learning disabled students at nine junior high schools in Portage, Michigan. Noted are the problems of avoiding the negative effects of disability labeling and the inability of regular class teachers to provide appropriate instruction for special…

The report presents responses from 57 member States of the International Labor Organization (ILO) to 16 questions as part of the preparation for placing an item entitled "Human resources development: vocational guidance and vocational training" on the agenda of the 59th (1974) Session of the ILO Conference. For each of the questions, the question…

This prospectus proposes the development, by a consortium of states and provinces working with the Agency for Instructional Television, of television programs to teach measurement with the metric system. The scope and meaning of the metrication process are described, with affective as well as cognitive factors noted. Following a review of how the…

Described is a proposed 2-year study by the Atlanta Association for Retarded Children of Georgia's criminal system as it relates to the mentally retarded. The primary purpose of the study is said to be the determination of the best system for the delivery of services to mentally retarded individuals incarcerated in Georgia's penal institutions.…

Proposed is a program to encourage 100 gifted secondary students in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to initiate and carry out educational projects on an individual basis, to be funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. Provided are statistical data on the general project, budget, pupil population, program staff, (more than 200…

Securing funds to support a project does not necessarily guarantee its success. For any venture to be successful it must be undergirded by an effective management system. Discussed are four basic questions on the topic of effective project management. (1) When should project management start? (2) Who is responsible for the effective management…

A 20-item checklist for proposal writing is based on 15 years of helping various agencies apply for funds from a variety of sources. (Author/MLF)