The Training Incentive Payments Program (TIPP) is an experimental and demonstration project designed to explore the feasibility of using financial incentives to stimulate more effective upgrading of the skills and earnings of low income workers in the private sector. Self administration is stressed, with incentive payments to employers based on…

In this study of the current state of evaluation of health programs, which emphasizes the relationship between health status and poverty, four health programs are examined: Family Planning, Neighborhood Health Centers, Migrant Health Programs, and Comprehensive Health Services for Children and Youth. The study shows that the current health…

This report reviews the knowledge gained in 4 years of operation of labor mobility demonstration projects and provides guidelines on the design and operation of a permanent worker relocation program. Data were gathered both from written material covering the experience of each project and from field trips to some of the projects when additional…

In the last several years, Federal funds have subsidized occupational training programs which have occurred on the job under employer sponsorship and supervision. This report examines the question of whether Federal financing is substituted for private efforts which would occur in its absence, and how such substitution can be avoided in the design…

A fiscal analysis of fixed-amount Federal grant programs using the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity is essential to an evaluation of the Federal grant structure. Measures of program need should be current, comparable over time and among states, and subjected to sensitivity analysis so that future grants can be estimated. Income…

The early 70's will see educational programs in transition as the Nixon administration attempts to redesign Health, Education, and Welfare. The program thrust is beginning to become apparent in 1970. Local educators need to take into strict account the fact that education can no longer do the job alone. Educators must use other social agencies and…

This is the report of hearings on a bill to extend to June 30, 1978, the authorization for programs funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and for related programs. The statements of state and local officials, teachers, and other educators are included, as well as statistical data about and evaluations of the programs.…

This book offers a concise description and critique of the government's program to feed needy families. It is suggested that food programs have failed for two basic reasons: (1) they have been designed to meet the needs of food producers; and, (2) they have been administered to please a public anxious to deny help to the "unworthy poor." It is…

Several aspects of the attitudes held by teachers of American Indian children toward their own and other cultures need to be studied. Recommended research topics along these lines include: (1) a study of the teacher subculture where teachers of Indian pupils live in a distinct enclave, with emphasis upon characteristic attitudes toward Indians…

Title VI-A provides matching federal funds for the purchase of college and university laboratory and audiovisual equipment, closed-circuit television equipment and classroom materials related to the improvement of undergraduate education. This report presents case studies of 12 institutions which obtained Title VI-A funds in the past 4 years. The…

A profile of Title I and III reading program evaluators from data collected on a survey of 299 evaluators was made. The survey consisted of four sections: (1) The Evaluator--information on his educational background and training and on the programs with which he was connected; (2) Data Collection--information on the sorts of data the evaluator…

This report describes the past activities and future plans of the Federal Water Quality Administration (FWQA). The first of the four sections in the report provides general discussion about these forms of water pollution: municipal wastes, industrial wastes, thermal pollution, oil and hazardous substances, mine drainage, sedimentation and erosion,…

This manual was prepared to aid in building an effective evaluation structure for government programs and projects throughout the HEW agencies. It is intended to assist evaluators in the development of a strategy -- when to evaluate, who should evaluate, and how to supervise the evaluation; how to allocate resources among different types of…

This report assesses the crisis facing nonpublic education and offers interim recommendations for utilizing the existing school legislation and for enriching certain proposals under review by the current Administration. The report discusses both financial and nonfinancial issues. (JF)

This annual report of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to Congress describes training activities instituted under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) through 1970. With major emphasis on fiscal year 1970, the report includes descriptions of programs and participants. Evaluation activities designed to measure increases…