This report describes a federally-funded national conference on career education held in Columbus, Ohio, which focused on the professional development of educational leadership personnel. Centering on the development of individual university-based teams through the involvement of selected leaders in a series of national conferences, the April 1972…

This study was conducted to meet the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriation's request for a comprehensive and documented report that covers the current status and relationships of all major Federal programs concerned with health manpower. Part One gives an overview of Federal health manpower programs and outlines major recommendations, including the…

This report is the latest in a series of annual reports to the President and Congress on total Federal obligations (excluding loans) awarded to individual institutions of higher education and selected nonprofit institutions. A major portion of the report focuses on Federal obligations to universities and colleges for research and development, R…

The discrepancies between the comprehensive design for Follow Through evaluation and the program management's needs of the seven models in Philadelphia are discussed. The national evaluation has focused on pupil performance and achievement data. The local evaluation, conducted since 1968, has focused on: (1) the assessment of the correspondence…

The first of a series of evaluations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Higher Education Program, the report focused on the characteristics and opinions of 2,736 American Indian and native Alaskan students who received financial assistance from this program. Demographic data were depicted in graphs which generally related to available…

This is the fourth publication in the series of Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Special Materials program with its emphasis on preparing teachers for teaching underachievers. The publication is divided into eight parts, providing adequate background on BSCS materials and procedures to be used by teachers. Included are three chapters…

Ways in which the nation's schools could make economies, without sacrificing the quality of education, were investigated. Opportunities to achieve economies were identified in three broad areas: (1) The instruction of pupils, including the utilization of teachers and other professional instructional personnel; (2) The delivery of administrative…

Designed for evaluation and program planning and budgeting, the model presented herein provides a framework for estimating the contribution of individual manpower services in increasing the earning potential of manpower trainees with various sets of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The model shows how to maximize total increase in…

The National High School Debate Problem Area for 1973-74 centers on the questions, "What is the role of the federal government in extending public assistance to all Americans living in poverty?" This collection of federal government documents and periodical articles supplements the "ERIC First Analysis" of the topic (CS 500…

This report discloses that, since the passage of Public Law 874 in 1950, about 2,000 districts or 20 percent of all districts receiving entitlement under the law in 1952-64 experienced some federal installation phaseouts. The study indicates that only in a small percentage of these districts were the effects of the phaseout sufficient to cause…

Documentary evidence that Federal spending on human resources development disproportionately favors metropolitan counties over non-metropolitan areas is presented. The first chapter, "What Is Rural America?" focuses on 3 aspects of the rural problem: (1) the problem of definition, (2) the rural population distribution, and (3) the…

Although the study includes sections on the history and organization of the building trade unions in metropolitan New Orleans and on the operation of the Apprenticeship Outreach Program in the area, its main focus is on employment, earning, skill levels, and attitudes of white and black carpenters, union and nonunion, and with black roofers, union…

The purpose of this study was to determine attitudinal differentiations within the Mexican American community's leadership in the implementation of effective programs to incorporate Mexican Americans into the general planning process and, more specifically, into governmental planning offices. The thesis tested was that Mexican American involvement…

This study is one of two containing the findings and summary of an evaluation of the Work Incentive Program (WIN). A national survey, involving 50 projects, the study focuses on three aspects of the program which include: (1) the degree to which the WIN population represents the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) population, (2) the…

This study reviews the evidence on the impact that manpower training programs have had on the earnings of the poor, in order to assess the likely success that greatly expanded training programs would have in reducing the amount of public assistance payments and the size of welfare roles. Between 1963 and 1971, the Federal Government obligated 6.8…