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…

This is the third hearing in a series of four conducted to exercise con- gressional oversight of the Food Distribution Program of the Department of Agriculture. The following witnesses presented testimony, statements, and exhibits pertinent to this purpose: Honorable Efrain Santiago, Secretary of Social Services, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;…

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…

During the Johnson Administration the Presidency remained centrally involved in the education policy system. The usual flow of demands from the field and the education associations, through Congress and USOE, continued. However, the innovativeness which the President sought could not be obtained, so it was believed, if the bureaucracy remained the…

The purpose of this 1949 book is to summarize the beliefs of the education division of the United States Indian Service and to present summarized statements of the educational objectives and teaching practices of Alaska and the 15 states where the Indian Service operates schools. Part I answers such questions as how public schools are changing;…

The General Accounting Office (GAO) evaluated the Office of Economic Opportunity's (OEO) performance contracting experiment because of its potential impact in education. Performance contracting has been defined as an agreement between a local education agency, such as a public school, and a private educational firm, known as a learning system…

Prepared by the Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, (ESEA) Migrant Program director, this State annual evaluation report for fiscal year 1967 includes projects for migratory children of migratory agricultural workers in New Mexico. The material in this report represents a comprehensive analysis of Title I Migrant Program activity…

The two basic family feeding programs are food stamps and commodity distribution. The current food stamp program provides the poor with spending power enough to purchase at the level of the Department of Agriculture's Economy Food Plan. The dollar equivalent of this plan is 112 dollars a month for a family of four. This amounts to an average per…