Presented is a review of literature on the provision of special education services to handicapped children in rural areas. The inadequacy of such provisions is seen to be due to problems in transportation, unavailability of special equipment and teaching materials, and administrative problems. Cooperative programing is reported as the key…

Two Emergency School Aid Act (ESSA)-funded compensatory education reading programs served 1900 Minneapolis students in desegregated schools during 1974-75. Both programs generally met their objectives for comprehension gain among disabled readers. Students in the ESAA Intermediate Reading Program achieved a median rate of about 3 grade-score…

Volume I of the First Annual Report of the National Day Care Study (NDCS) funded by the Office of Child Development presents an overview of the NDCS study, the background of federal involvement in day care, the day care policy issues being addressed, an overview of the study design and phases, uses and limits of study findings, and the results of…

This catalog is composed of brief descriptions of, and extensive indexes to, federal programs that provide educational benefits to the American public. It includes programs administered by the U.S. Office of Education as well as those administered by other federal agencies. The federal education assistance programs are aimed at all educational…

This paper summarizes the purposes, history, and funding history of the curriculum development program which is Part I of the Vocational Education Amendments, describes the major categories of the program effort, and offers recommendations for the future of the program. Problems in career development and management at the national level which have…

This paper describes some of the systematic efforts used in the last decade for disseminating the products of research and development in vocational education and provides suggestions for dealing with problems and issues to facilitate the movement of information resources from producers to consumers. The paper: (1) Traces the history and role of…

To liberate individuals and free colleges to do what they do best the author proposes that each person receive a fixed sum of $10,000 on his eighteenth birthday or upon graduation from high school to be drawn through increased take-home pay, or used for further education, or for financial investment. (JT)

Criticising human capital analysis as it has been applied to public policy (e.g. seeing educational institutions as means to greater personal and national income and substituting capital for labor, which causes competition for students' borrowed money), the author argues for a negative income tax and an endowment funding for institutions of higher…

Discusses the federally sponsored Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides benefits for severely impaired children from low- and moderate-income families. (CM)

In an analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts, which represents the national government's direct involvement in support of the arts, the author considers that agency's impact, its policy changes, its funding priorities, and its politicization since 1965. (SJL)

This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)

This paper purports that art education in the schools is being taken over by a "conspiracy" of art commissions, rather than leaving art education to art educators. It is suggested that this "cabal" will attempt to replace art educators in decision making relative to curriculum, methodology, certification, and teacher preparation. (KC)

This article examines five major arguments against day care. Several approaches already in use in other countries are suggested as answers to the problems raised in the debate over care of children of working mothers. (MC)

Evaluation of the Work Incentive Program (WIN) indicates that this employment and supportive services program has been very effective in serving welfare recipients with poor work histories on a cost-effective basis. Subsidized public employment is particularly effective in increasing employment and earnings. (MF)

A quality assurance program for environmental monitoring is identified as necesary for the collection of reliable, interchangeable, and legally defensible data. The article defines quality assurance and describes the EPA quality assurance program. (MA)