The commitment on the part of the national government to provide some assistance to the elderly began in the 1930s, but in the last decade or so, this commitment has substantially increased. (Author/AM)

The new pressures on aging policy are certain to bring with them inequitable and unintended consequences. The very old have not shared fully in the policy gains made by the older population generally, yet they will possibly suffer most from whatever "aging backlash" develops in the future. (Author/AM)

The mechanism for providing more and better employment and training services to Asian Americans is already in place. What is needed now is greater understanding of how that mechanism works and greater involvement in what it is doing. (Author/AM)

Characteristics of the 1.3 million participants enrolled in CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) programs during the first quarter of fiscal year 1978 are presented primarily by way of a data table. Some of the statistical categories included are enrollment by program title, sex, age, education, socioeconomic status, military status,…

Limitations of and opportunities for interagency coordination and data sharing among Federal international exchange and training programs are discussed in this article, based on a General Accounting Office (GAO) study. Included are the GAO's recommendations to the International Communication Agency (ICA). (JMD)

This is a discussion of some of the reasons for the high cost of health care in the United States in government programs, hospital wages, physician's fees, excess beds, too many specialists, and high technology--and some of the proposed solutions to these problems. (BB)

Assistant Secretary of Labor Ernest Green promises a closer cooperation between Department of Labor officials and vocational educators and notes that this should result in better job training and information for unemployed youth. In this article, Green shares his observations on the Administration's attitude toward vocational education and the…

This paper outlines the major considerations of the U.S. Office of Education in the awarding of grants for the development of metric education programs. Four categories of projects are described. (SD)

Examines the claims of the developers of the Adult Performance Level (APL) program to improve the teaching and testing of adults enrolled in federally supported adult basic education programs, identifies APL's theoretical problems, scrutinizes the technical aspects of its development, and evaluates the role of the U.S. Office of Education in these…

An engineering-economic simulation model of residential energy use is employed to evaluate the effects of nine different residential energy-use "futures" as to economic impact on Americans to the year 2000. (Author/CP)

Discusses the impact of fellowship programs that send scientists and engineers to work in United States congressional offices. (SL)

Lists titles and program descriptions of numerous government agencies at local, state, and federal levels which offer aid ranging from priced publications to developmental grants for career education activities. (BM)

The central proposal is the establishment of an educational research and development institute and an implementation council in each state. These would make it possible for the states to carry out vital research, development, and implementation activities that have not yet been conducted well at either level. (Author/IRT)

Responding to an article from the April 1987 Phi Delta Kappan criticizing Chapter 1 structures, the author points out that radical changes will not improve the program, instead a broader "systems approach" for interpreting rules governing such programs is needed. (MD)

In 1980, five federal special education longitudinal qualitative impact evaluations were all prematurely terminated. What happened, why it happened, and what salvage decisions were made are examined in this article. The impact of these decisions on the design of RFPs and future evaluation plans are also discussed. (Author/EGS)