In 1971, a Federal program was started to promote and assist Indians who might choose a career in health. Due to a reorganization slated within the Health Resources Administration (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare), however, this Indian program is headed for deescalization and merger with other programs for the…

Reports on a follow-up study of Sixth Cycle Teacher Corps graduates who taught pupils in grades 2-6 across the country. These graduates were compared with other young teachers who taught the same type of pupil in the same school district, on the basis of teacher performance and teacher effectiveness measures. (JA)

Reports on the Conference on Information and Referral Service in Public Libraries held in Detroit on May 7-9, 1975. (PF)

Descriptions of sessions of Special and related programs.

The paper reviews the Reagan administration's efforts to convert human services financing to a block grant approach and describes the response of the United Cerebral Palsy Association (UCPA). The Budget Reconciliation Act and its impact on funding for such services as developmental disabilities, vocational rehabilitation, and Title XX Social…

The Subcommittee on Human Resources (Committee on Education and Labor) was convened to review federal transportation policy with regard to Project Head Start and to discuss possible solutions to problems which have recently surfaced. The problems are related to funding and the time provided to local Head Start programs to purchase and/or replace…

An impact evaluation of the Spanish/English component of the federal Bilingual Education Program (BEP) was done by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) between 1974-76. The AIR evaluation took three years, cost $2 million, and examined many aspects of the BEP. This paper explores the influence of the AIR evaluation on the 1978…

The Follow Through program epitomizes many of the successes and failures of federally funded compensatory education. The program, designed to "follow through" in grades kindergarten through three on the documented gains of disadvantaged children graduating from Head Start, emerged as a planned variation experiment that systematically…

This government report reviews U.S. refugee resettlement programs and policies. Part I of the book provides an overview of U.S. refugee admissions programs and discusses refugee admissions policies for two time frames: 1945 to 1965, and 1965 to the present. In Part II an analysis of Federal assistance programs for domestic resettlement of refugees…

The booklet lists administrative and legislative recommendations from the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals. Suggestions are made for such priority action items as consumer involvement in planning and decision making, establishment of a federal programs coordinating center, and enactment of a comprehensive national health insurance…

This report discusses the program and plans of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for 1979-80. The publication provides an overview of the major program activities for fiscal year 1979 and plans for 1980. The center provides data to monitor trends in education and address key policy issues. These data are supplemented by special…