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Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
This report describes and evaluates the Child and Family Resource Program (CERP) in Poughkeepsie, New York, one of 11 sites of this Head Start-affiliated program. Placing a professional in appropriate community agencies to help bring about changes in the social service delivery system (the Resource Agency Person (RAP) concept) is considered a…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Day Care, Delivery Systems
Yokelson, Doris, Ed.; Karsten, Peter, Ed. – 1975
The final and fourth volume in a collection of papers on poverty issues, this document deals with studies of poverty and social welfare programs in five Western European countries, Canada, and Japan. Eight sections constitute the document: some cross-national characteristics of poverty; poverty and antipoverty in Britain (characteristics of…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Anderson, Stephen M. – 1975
The data in this report comes from the 1972 Consolidated Program Information Report (CPIR) designed to provide statistical information about federal educational aid programs at the local level. These data focus on the characteristics of the children who participate, the total staff involved, and all expenditures incurred in the operation of…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
The laws covered in this report were initiated as part of a federal policy of assisting school districts financially burdened as a result of new or expanded federal activities. Public Law 81-874 authorizes financial assistance for maintenance and operation of schools to local education agencies. Public Law 81-815 authorizes federal financial…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annual Reports, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Kirschner (E.J.) and Associates, Washington, DC. – 1975
This report consists primarily of an executive summary of the findings of a study undertaken from July 1974 to September 1975 by Kirschner Associates, Inc., for the Office of Child Development, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in order to assess the overall effectiveness of the Project Head Start Training and Technical Assistance…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Support, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1975
The laws covered in this report were initiated as part of a federal policy of assisting school districts financially burdened as a result of new or expanded federal activities. Public Law 81-874 authorizes financial assistance for maintenance and operation of schools to local education agencies. Public Law 81-815 authorizes federal financial…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annual Reports, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peters, Richard O. – 1976
Who determines the structure and content of children's learning? It is at the federal and state legislative level that the laws-of-the-land are made. Both at the federal and state levels, lawmakers have enacted legislation that has had direct effects upon students and instructional curricula. Federally sponsored programs have had great impact upon…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community, Court Litigation, Curriculum
Hertz, Thomas W.; Harrell, Adele V. – 1974
This report analyzes early childhood research activities supported by the Interagency Panel on Early Childhood Research and Development during the 1974 fiscal year, and identifies trends and shifts in the agencies' research plans. The report is composed of five chapters which contain the following: (1) information about the historical background,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Child Development, Cooperative Planning
Baldwin, Fred D. – 1972
This report responds to an Office of Management and Budget request for an evaluation of Federal manpower and recreation programs for youth. The legislative and administrative statements of program goals have been studied. Staff members of the administering agencies have been conferred with frequently. Reports from those agencies' information…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
Albuquerque Public Schools, NM. – 1972
This federally funded exemplary career education project involved 35 Mini-Grant programs conducted within 24 elementary and middle schools in the Albuquerque Public Schools. Project highlights are described, noting the favorable impact of innovative career awareness activities upon disadvantaged Indian students, their parents, and the community.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Career Development, Career Education, Developmental Programs
Kerle, Ken – 1974
Penal systems of European countries vary in educational programs and humanizing efforts. A high percentage of Soviet prisoners, many incarcerated for ideological/religious beliefs, are confined to labor colonies. All inmates are obligated to learn a trade, one of the qualifications for release being evidence of some trade skill. Swedish…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, College Instruction
Seidman, Laurence S. – 1974
The report consists of three parts: "The Design of a Federal Employment Program to Counter Recession"; "The Design of a Federal Employment Program in a Strategy to Raise Low Earnings"; and "The Design of a Guaranteed Job Opportunity as a Part of Welfare Reform". In Part 1, an Anti-Recession Program (ARP) is proposed. ARP is an automatically…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Blake, Peter – 1974
The housing crisis in the United States is primarily urban. Unlike areas of urban blight, rural alums are not slums of despair by any means. "Slums of despair" is a term used in a recent study of urban life to describe those areas in some of our inner cities whose inhabitants feel they are utterly trapped--that they stand little chance of…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Government Role
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Research and Development. – 1972
The 10-page bibliography is a selective list of reports completed under contracts and grants from the Manpower Administration, Office of Research and Development. The reports are based on comprehensive and innovative research and development projects and are listed under the following headings: (1) Use and training of paraprofessionals; (2)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Development, Counseling Services, Employment Opportunities
Molz, R. Kathleen – 1974
The civil libertarian aspects of the National Program for Library and Information Science are analyzed. The five assumptions on which the program is based are closely examined for their references to the word "right." Details are given of the historic development of the library profession's increasing concern for the protection of…
Descriptors: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
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