The document presents Federal government policies and programs for American Indians, and the history of the Federal government-Indian relationship. Topics discussed are: (1) land management and industrial development; (2) employment programs; (3) education; (4) welfare programs; (5) other Federal programs (housing, transportation, and public…

Case studies of individual Parent-Child Centers are part of baseline data collected for the impact study of the Parent-Child Center (PCC) program. Seven centers, selected as representative of the national program, are examined. Case studies include descriptions of facilities, the ethnic characteristics of participants, the communities in which…

Members of professional organizations, representing school libraries and audiovisual personnel, set up new standards for staffing the library media centers. These standards recognize that school libraries were taking on new and greater responsibilities and were incorporating more and more audiovisual functions which require a new professional…

The demographic and socioeconomic development of the Navajo Tribe is presented. The demographic data is based on the 1970 Census report. The other 5 topics are: (1) a short history of the Navajos; (2) a description of tribal government structure and its legal status of partial sovereignty; (3) education, covering Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and…

The hearing considered testimony from public and private witnesses on S.1017, the American Indian Self-Determination and Education Reform Act of 1973, and other related legislation. Three of the measures to be considered are identical to proposals submitted by the administration to the 92nd Congress: S.1340, providing for the detail of civic…

The second AID-NAFSA workshop members included many of the staff of the Office of International Training, 31 Foreign Student Advisors, and 23 other members of NAFSA. The three main objectives of the program are: to improve the capability of the participants by new knowledge and skills; to expose them to modernization and popular participation at…

To investigate the feasibility of applying benefit-cost analysis to poverty programs, participants in Job Corps and Neighborhood Youth Corps Out of School programs were surveyed. Program participants were compared with control groups of accepted applicants who did not show up for enrollment. Program effects were measured in terms of economic and…

Goals of the New Mexico Educational Talent Project--funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act--are (1) to identify qualified secondary school students at the 11th grade or earlier and assist them in completing their high school education, (2) to encourage an increasing number of high school students to select a teaching…

This report explores the evolutionary process of the concepts of accountability and performance contracting from their inception through mid 1970-71. Six major topics are discussed: (1) ideological, managerial, and pedagogical underpinnings, (2) definitions and history of the concepts, (3) five performance contracting projects, (4) the political…

To ascertain the effects of participation in the Chattanooga Neighborhood Youth Corps, this study tested the null hypothesis that self concept was unaffected by participation, status in the program (in or out of school), and sex role. In an experimental pretest-posttest control group design, a series of three instruments were administered to 94…

The first phase of a two-phase study of the employment success of welfare recipients trained and placed under the Work-Incentive (WIN) program is summarized. During this phase the methodology for the study was developed, including questionnaire structure, model field procedures, and study design. Preliminary instruments and procedures were tested…

This is a report of research undertaken to investigate those characteristics of Negro male high school dropouts that might inhibit their participation in Federal Manpower Programs. Study groups, each composed of approximately 300 young men born before 1952, and who left school in 1966 and 1967 before graduating from high school, were constituted…

This report critically reviews past benefit-cost studies of manpower programs and offers an alternative methodology for program evaluation. Because of selective admission criteria and a tendency to attribute all income changes to training, previous studies have had an upward bias in measuring the effectiveness of training. This study evaluates a…

The purpose of this workshop, composed of 22 participants representing public and private institutions in eight states and the District of Columbia, was to provide an over-view of many important areas of concern to the community college administrator. They include the role of community colleges in higher education, trends in the community college…

Section 102 (b) (6) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (Public Law 87-256), known commonly as the Fulbright-Hays Act, which is designed to promote international understanding and cooperation, is described in this brochure. The Foreign Curriculum Consultant Program is intended to help educational institutions at all levels by…