This document is a transcript of testimony given to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Strategies to reduce hunger in America are described and analyzed in the wake of proposed legislation, the Hunger Relief Act of 1986. Testimony is given on the following topics: (1) the Food Stamp Program; (2) supplemental food programs; (3)…

This document contains transcripts of witness testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to review the need for a national health care policy for long-term care. Opening statements are presented from committee chairman Claude Pepper and from Representatives Sala Burton and Barbara Boxer. Testmonies are presented from…

This document reviews federal support for education between fiscal years 1980 and 1984. Federal support for education totalled $62.2 billion in 1984, an increase of 18 percent over 1980. Between 1980 and 1984 the largest increase in federal support (30 percent as of 1984) went to research at universities and related institutions. During the same…

Considers the impact of federal aid on adult education as a lesson for community educators now about ready to receive federal aid. Suggests that adult and community educators have much to gain by working together. (Author/DN)

The dominant influence of the Federal Government in contemporary Australian tertiary education has grown largely from policies adopted during World War II. Perhaps the most important of these was the decision to establish the Financial Assistance Scheme, the forerunner of the Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme. (Author)

The report focuses on the National Association of State Mental Retardation Program Directors' project to produce an indepth analysis of income maintenance for the developmentally disabled. The following issues were considered: the disability determination process; eligibility for rehabilitation services; incentives and disincentives to employment;…

This document explores the interaction between the Title I legal framework and selected state and local compensatory education programs (SCE). Specifically, it is concerned with: (a) whether the language of the Title I legal framework setting forth the basic local educational agencies (LEA) program requirements applicable to SCE programs is…

This report is a compilation of federal efforts in educational research, development, dissemination, and evaluation for Fiscal Year 1975. Individual listings for 41 agencies report research, development, dissemination, and evaluation activities separately and, in many cases, name an agency contact person. (MM)

This article is a sequenced description by the chief of cycle operations at Teacher Corps of the origin and development of Teacher Corps projects, from selection and evaluation of concept papers, to proposal rating and funding, to assessment of each project's success. (JA)

Part of the monthly Saturday Review Supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.