This is an evaluation report of ESEA Title I programs in St. Louis, Missouri which maintains that despite the decline in funds, St. Louis' Title I children held their own. In 1970, these students scored about two months higher on achievement tests than they had in 1966. The fact that Title I students are not losing ground is considered a…

This booklet is one of 34 in a series on childhood education programs in support of a White House Conference on Children, December 1970. The Goldsboro Program included 1,165 first, second, and third grade pupils in ungraded classes at seven schools. The pamphlet describes how the classroom organization and atmosphere, the instructional materials,…

This is one of four publications designed to provide government agencies with information on available training resources; it is intended primarily for clientele in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and contains information on interagency training programs available almost exclusively in this locale during fiscal year 1971. Courses are…

The Concerted Services in Training and Education (CSTE) program was designed at the federal level to coordinate the resources of all appropriate federal and state agencies in rural development. The pilot Arkansas program focused on the problems of a rural outmigration area characterized by low income, underemployment, and lack of industry.…

A comprehensive listing of all USOE-sponsored research on reading and related topics from 1966 through June 1969 is provided. This bibliography supplements the "USOE Sponsored Research in Reading," Bibliography 5, of the ERIC/CRIER Reading Review Series, which reviewed USOE-funded projects on reading from 1956 through 1965. Documents related to…

Projects relating to reading which were funded by the Bureau of Research of the U.S. Office of Education are listed in numerical order by project number. Descriptive information, which includes project number, title, investigator, institution, proposal date, and ERIC descriptors, was taken from the May 1969 edition of "Current Project Information"…

Lack of support, both in funds and in philosophic commitment, is responsible for the limited extent of educational research and development throughout the nation. More convincing results of educational research and more adequate dissemination of findings are needed to enable the educational community to use those findings as the basis for positive…

Brief descriptions are presented of a number of Office of Education federal funding programs directly supporting educational facilities planning and construction. Programs now in operation and several currently under consideration are pointed out. Consideration is also given to several programs in federal agencies other than the Office of…

This progress report studies the effects of programs funded under Title III in a selected group of colleges and universities. Thirty-seven developing institutions in the South and Midwest were visited and administrators, faculty, and students were interviewed. In addition, a brief opinion questionnaire was distributed to faculty members on 21 of…

In education, the road from research to practice is a long one and includes research, development, and application. The notion of a continuum from research to practice was recognized in 1965 when the provisions of the Cooperative Research Program were incorporated into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Since that time, however, total…

In reviewing the attempts to conduct Federal antipoverty programs with "maximum feasible participation" by residents of the communities involved, Daniel Moynihan describes the origin of this provision in sociological theory, then discusses the nature and the internal contradictions of the great national effort at social change conceived under the…

This collection of reprinted speeches delivered at the 1967 Ohio Conference on Disadvantaged Children covers the following topics: learning as the discovery of personal meaning, occupational and vocational training, characteristics of successful Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I Programs, the inherent difficulties of cultural…

The NIE (National Institute of Education) Design Proposal Review Board required advice to be used in selecting the Educational Satellite Communications Demonstration (ESCD) contractor. Therefore, a series of 25 "Lessons Learned and Problems Anticipated" (LLPA) sheets were prepared which seek to summarize the major insights relative to…

In recent years, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has had to re-examine its position regarding the current legal status of youth attending school. Court actions, although still indecisive on this point, precede a new era of school-student relationships which the BIA's Office of Indian Education Programs holds will assure improved conditions for…

This publication describes the concept of The National Center for Youth Outreach Workers in reaching out and contacting youth with problems--beyond the confines of an agency, set hours, and limited knowledge of the individual youth. The Center was conceived at a Young Men's Christian Associations' (YMCA) conference in Washington, D. C. in March…