Deaf-blindness is often described as an information gathering disability. People who are deaf-blind are not able to easily obtain information using the distance senses of hearing and sight, and this impacts their ability to interact with others and learn about the world around them. For children who are deaf-blind, this has significant educational…

Getting through the choppy seas of curriculum reform and high stakes testing, as well as meeting predetermined standards and adequate yearly progress, is often difficult for a teacher, let alone a school or district, to ascertain what specific content should be taught and what is actually being taught. Teachers often do not know what has been…

This bulletin is the fourteenth in this series of publications issued biennially by the Office of Education. The bulletin is prepared on the basis of responses given by Federal Departments and Agencies to requests for information about Federal expenditures for educational programs. Through this series of publications, the Office of Education has…

The scope of this paper is concerned with communicating developments related to elementary and secondary levels of education as mediated through State, intermediate, and local educational agencies. (Author/RK)

Summarizes comments made on S.2495, the Science and Technology Resources Survey and Applications Act of 1974, at Congressional hearings. Concludes that there is agreement on the policy provisions of the bill, but not on the establishment of new agencies and the assignment of their roles. (CC)

Explains how administrators can plan and manage specially funded educational projects. (Author/DN)

Examines the federal role in medical training by data from a national study of the training programs of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health. (Editor/PG)

Background concerning legislation and development of environmental programs is detailed in the areas of air pollution, water pollution, pesticides, and multimedia toxic substances. Each section contains a discussion of scientific knowledge, health effects, costs, proposed standards, and possible approaches to the problems. (LS)

Describes what has happened and what may happen to the bilingual education movement. Explains how Congress, the courts, State governments, and education associations are wrestling with the problem. (Author/DN)

Describes four basic planning strategies that can greatly increase an organization's chances for obtaining grants: (1) base the proposal on documented needs, (2) obtain crucial assistance from the funding agency, (3) demonstrate an organization's capabilities for program delivery, and (4) organize a countdown'' from the first planning session to…

This somewhat satiric article reports on the termination rites for federal funding of Library Services and Construction Act programs held recently at HEW. Revenue Sharing is supposed to fill the void but assurances of that were not well received by the gathered mourners. (DH)

The Intergovernmental Personnel Act opens avenues of cooperation between various levels of government and the schools and the colleges. (Editor)

Revenue sharing is a new experiment in federal assistance to State and local agencies. The experience with general revenue sharing may be followed by a large-scale sharing of U.S. funds for public schools. It could become the most important federal aid program in recent history. (Author/JN)

The Student Loan Marketing Association, a new member of the MAE family, aims at stimulating the flow of Federal student loan funds. (Editor)