Court litigation on sex discrimination in public agency hiring may significantly alter the balance between plaintiff and defendant in Title VII action, but its narrow view of the tone of the law may be affected more than procedure. (MSE)

The United States secretary of education states his desire for a renewal of America's commitment to education in the face of foreign economic competition, and the executive director of the President's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives describes the task force's mission and activities. (PGD)

Stakeholder evaluation was designed to address widely recognized problems in the conduct of evaluation. However, global propositions about the problems and prospects of program evaluation obscure the circumstances in which social science can contribute to social problem solving. (Author/PN)

Recommendations are made to Congress and the Department of Education on evaluation of federally supported education programs. The work covers local, state, and federal efforts to address questions about evaluation procedures and practices, and the use of evaluation results. The recommendations are directed toward improving the quality and…

Funds (1983) for National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research programs include $1,092,200,000 (NSF), $5.5 billion (NASA), and $119 million (EPA). NSF's science education activities were raised to $30 million in spite of the Administration's plan to phase…

To maximize freedom from personal and political conflicts of interest, decentralized mechanisms of federal program evaluations are needed. Block grants mean that state legislatures and governors will become more responsible for oversight of funds. Three proposals are presented for helping the states deal with these increased evaluation…

Discusses the history of Indian, Chicano, and Puerto Rican colleges in the United States. Describes some of the current legal and legislative concerns facing these institutions, particularly in the areas of funding and accreditation. (EKN)

In assessing the validity of a norm-referenced model used in evaluating large-scale federal educational programs for disadvantaged children, gain estimates were shown as approximately equal with randomized control group model estimates compared by retrospective analyses of two databases. (Author/CM)

Beginning with statements indicating the serious inadequacy of America's science education, the author describes a National Science Foundation program to recruit principals to support science education improvement and to conduct inservice training in science education for their teachers. (JM)

Summarizes a report from Northwestern University that reviewed Federal evaluation practices of federally supported educational programs at the national, state, and local levels. Considers: (1) evaluation purposes and methods; (2) evaluators' capabilities; (3) use of evaluation results; and (4) ways that evaluation procedures/practices can be…

Holds that civil rights problems are most severe in rural regions, especially in the rural South, and that current policies have failed to address rural communities. Discusses problems in the areas of welfare, equal employment, and equal educational opportunities, and suggests the need for a comprehensive examination of conditions in rural…

Suggests developing a five-dimension rating scale to assess participants' perceptions of both the process and the product outcomes of the Group Projects Abroad (GPA) experience, a federal program funding foreign study by curriculum development teams. Outlines the rationale for each dimension and proposes guidelines for constructing scale items.…

This paper shows how several of Cook and Gruder's meta-evaluation models have been applied in the national evaluation of Project Follow Through. Participants in the evaluation are identified, their roles are described, and the degree to which these roles map onto the meta-evaluation models is assessed. (Author/BW)

The development of an alternate model of colonization--one that allowed greater autonomy and self-determination for the Native American people--may explain the greater degree of success on the part of the Catholics in the field of Indian education than that of the Federal government. (Author)

Presents an overview of the fiscal year 1980 budget for science education programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Broad goals of the NSF science education programs and budget highlights are also discussed. (HM)