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Download full textCasey, Joseph; And Others – 1981
This study presents a detailed evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), a federal program designed to assist state efforts to develop and improve public libraries, and examines the policy implications of these results as they relate to the future of federal involvement in public…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Decision Making, Federal Programs, Grants
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
The Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and XI, Public Law 95-561: Problems in the BIA Portland Area. issue of administrative funds (Element 10, Title XI, Basic Indian Education Act) to be allotted to the Portland area of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Maxine Edmo, president of the Advocates for Indian Education educational arm of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Levine, James A.; And Others – 1981
This report examines the relationship between the federal government's child care programs and policies and the federal government's goal of equal opportunity for women. Specifically, the report reviews three dimensions of federal child care activities: programs and policies whose primary purpose is to assist families with child care; the…
Descriptors: Day Care, Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities, Employed Women
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
This publication is a product of the knowledge development effort implemented under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It is the second volume of an assessment of the Job Corps, which found that, overall, the Job Corps experience of training young men and women for employment has been beneficial to society, although there…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report focuses on the young school drop-out portion only of the supported work experiment, which also included offenders, ex-addicts, and welfare recipients. The goal of supported…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency
Sullins, W. Robert; And Others – 1980
A project was conducted to determine problems or barriers prohibiting awarding credit for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) training in Virginia. Potential solutions and strategies for their implementation were to be identified. A variety of methods were used to obtain information required to produce a Plan of Action that presents…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Credits, Educational Cooperation
Knee, Ruth; Krueger, Gladys – 1981
This guide is designed for individuals working in community mental health centers or other mental health programs concerned with needs and problems of the elderly. Section One examines the mental health needs of the elderly, and identifies major community social support programs that help the elderly with social and economic needs. Section Two…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Directories, Federal Programs, Individual Needs
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The results of a reivew by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), this paper examines the Title XX Program of the Social Security Act and makes suggestions for its improvement. The Title XX Program provides funds to states to enable them to tailor social services programs to fit the needs of local communities. Such services are…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Community Services, Contracts, Federal Programs
Jaeger, Richard M. – 1978
An alternative is proposed to the legally required uniform procedures and criteria for reporting the results of Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I projects. It is suggested that Congress is unlikely to respond to nationwide impact data on the effectiveness of Title I even when such data are available. It is further proposed that the RMC…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Equated Scores
Owens, Becky, Comp. – 1977
Federal agency programs in support of international education are summarized in this report. The publication is designed to help readers discover unknown programs, more fully understand more familiar programs, and learn more about specific requirements for agencies where proposals have been unsuccessfully submitted in the past. Focus is directed…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exchange Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Passow, A. Harry – 1978
Since the early 1960s, there has been an outpouring of research and a mounting of programs and projects dealing with compensatory education for the disadvantaged. Despite continued debate over what constitutes compensatory education, many programs for the educationally disadvantaged share common characteristics. Three of the largest Federally…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Compensatory Education, Educational Strategies
Brandt, Ronald S. – 1976
The following recommendations on curriculum development are presented: (1) Federally sponsored research and development in education has had a beneficial effect on American schools, and promises to be even more effective if responsible, long-term policies can be established and followed; (2) Freedom of choice and cultural diversity can be…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Objectives
Spence, Toni, Comp.; Tulloch, Charlotte, Comp. – 1978
This guide provides a listing of major resources and means of access in the area of career education. In section 1, "Background of Career Education," state and federal laws concerning Kentucky career education are discussed, state and federal advisory councils are examined, and an abstract of the Kentucky state plan for career education…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Educational Resources
Goodman, John, Ed. – 1978
This document is divided into five parts. In Part 1, the reader is introduced to the discussions that follow by an account of the effect of school crime on school climate, and the response of the Teacher Corps and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in creating a joint program in youth advocacy to improve conditions in the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Crime, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment
Berman, Paul; McLaughlin, Milbrey – 1978
Past federal educational policy failures can be traced to three sources. The first is unrealistic expectations about schools' capacity for social reform, about the time needed to produce significant change, and about the degree of federal leverage over local school district behavior. The second source is the misconception that improving…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
