This article discussed the significance of improving low-income family children's information literacy, which could improve educational quality, enhance children's self-esteem, adapt children to the future competitive world market, as well as the problems in improving low-income family children's information literacy, such as no home computer and…

The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is the first major opportunity to use a behavioral economics lens to look at programs that serve poor and vulnerable people in the United States. Sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S.…

The public computing center offers an economical and environmentally friendly model for providing additional public computer access when and where it is needed. Though not intended to be a replacement for a full-service branch, the public computing center does offer a budget-friendly option for quickly expanding high-demand services into the…

The Office of Head Start/Region 11 serves nearly 23,000 American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) children in 26 States throughout the country: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina,…

Since the advent of institutional care in the nineteenth century, there has been extensive discussion concerning the relative merits and constraints inherent in such service provision. In the twentieth century, the trend toward institutionalization began to be reversed. Patients or clients were released or returned to communities and community…

This support document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Approaches to Measuring and Understanding Employer Training Expenditure," and is an added resource for further information. As outlined in the report, the research for this study was based on interviews and case studies, analysis of other research…

A discussion which contends that there is merit in not gearing satellite systems solely to educational broadcasting and that they should be designed for general communication, including telephony and television entertainment. (Author/HB)

A bibliography of 114 books and 32 professional journals and periodicals found most useful to community services and continuing education (CS/CE) professionals working in higher education institutions in Maryland is presented. Books are listed alphabetically, and the subject category in which the contributor found the reference most useful is…

FORUM is the newsletter of the American Association of Junior Colleges Community Services Project. The topics represented in these six issues include (1) coordination of adult educational opportunities in North Carolina; (2) approval of a constitution and election of officers for the National Council on Community Services; (3) announcement of a…

Community service programs in the junior college, a relatively new area of interest and attention, are growing rapidly and are expanding. One area that has not received much emphasis concerns community involvement in the institution. The author presents an overview of existing community service programs, in addition to interviews conducted at…

The proceedings of Senate hearings on a bill to authorize the establishment of an older worker community service program are presented. The nature of the proposed program is to give the aged an opportunity to achieve financial independence through employment in federally financed community service programs. The proposed legislation is intended to…

A study of volunteerism in an eight-town area of New Hampshire secured responses from 112 of a sample of 312 volunteers in 1978. These volunteers were predominantly male, middle aged, and married. They served either for personal prestige or community service motives. A cumulative savings of $46,000 resulted from their efforts. (SK)

A brief review of some of the current literature about this subject which has been processed in recent months by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. (EB)

Described is the program of the Recreation Center for the Handicapped, Inc., in San Francisco. (KW)