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Matter, Kevin; And Others – 1981
The Low Socioeconomic Status and Minority Student Achievement Study is designed to investigate the overall impact of the Austin Independent School District's programs on low socioeconomic status (SES) and minority students' achievement and school leaver rates. This evaluation is designed to monitor low SES and minority student achievement on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Data Collection, Dropouts
Stubbs, Judith E. – 1981
This is a report on the Positive Human Interaction Project (PHI) implemented under the Emergency School Aid Act in the Metropolitan Nashville (Tennessee) school system during 1980-81. The report describes the PHI centers set up in thirteen project schools to prevent resegregation in desegregated schools by encouraging interaction activities among…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Environment, Elementary Schools, Federal Programs
Cioffi, Michael R. – 1982
This study examines and compares the perceptions of educational professionals and non-professional personnel concerning Parent Advisory Council members' degree of participatory decision making in the administration of Title I programs in New York City. The sample of educational professionals consisted of New York City district superintendents,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Involvement, Community Leaders, Decentralization
Maestas, Julia – 1981
Data on concentrations of Hispanic populations in the United States, Hispanic enrollments in two-year, four-year, and graduate programs, and Hispanic-related awards by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) by category of institution are presented. Included are: the distribution of the total Hispanic population of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, College Attendance, Degrees (Academic)
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1980
The first annual report (1979) of the 15-member Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Advisory Committee for Exceptional Children (ACEC) reflects activities, concerns, and recommendations to the Department of the Interior for providing appropriate specialized programs and services for education of the projected 4,506 American Indian and Alaska Native…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education
Hansen, Janet S.; Clewell, Beatriz – 1982
The major maintenance programs, changes brought about by the 1981 Omnibus Reconciliation Act, and the effects on students or prospective students are described. Attention is directed to Social Security, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, food stamps, public housing assistance, the Comprehensive Education and Training Act…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Students, Dependents, Disabilities
Quinn, Lois M.; And Others – 1980
This pilot study examined the interrelationships between school desegregation programs and housing patterns in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. First, a field study explored the attitudes of minority families participating in the city-suburban school desegregation program which involved city-suburban pupil transfers. Secondly, the pupil movement under…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Desegregation Plans, Federal Programs, Government Role
Pfister, Linda; And Others – 1981
This handbook is designed to assist employment and training agency staff in developing, adopting, and implementing an effective intake program for employment and training programs. An introductory section explains the purposes of the handbook and presents an overview of the intake process. In the next section, the action planning guidelines are…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Vocational Education, Eligibility, Employment Programs
Jackson, Charles J.; Huffman, Glenda K. – 1979
The CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) Unified Intake Services is a CETA eligibility, assessment, and training program for residents of Tulare County, California. The prime function of the Unified Intake is to assess economically disadvantaged persons and to assist these individuals to obtain appropriate occupational training,…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs, Eligibility
Stover, Francis W. – 1981
Information on the Veterans Educational Assistance Program (GI Bill) and other veterans' educational programs, participation rates, eligibility for educational assistance, and training trends is presented. More persons have trained in college than in any other type of training under the GI Bills; this is followed very closely by noncollege school…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Attendance, Declining Enrollment, Dropouts
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
This document presents recommendations made to the Administration and Congress concerning future federal funding for vocational education and the staff report reviewing the federal role in vocational education. Part A lists recommendations for federal funds: (1) limitation to appropriations furthering the national interest, (2) use for program…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Research, Employment Programs, Employment Projections
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1981
This handbook, developed by the National Alliance of Business, is designed as a tool for Private Industry Councils (PICs) in promoting permanent partnerships between public and private interests in training and employing the disadvantaged. Basic information on roles, organizational issues, and program activities of the PIC are considered in four…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperation, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1980
The Tennessee Nutrition Education and Training (NET) program is part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to develop a coordinated nutrition education program for children from preschool through grade 12. In its first year of operation, the Tennessee NET program conducted summer nutrition education workshops for elementary teachers and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1977
A bilingual, bicultural program in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, part of the Experimental Schools Program, was designed to reverse "negative self concept, motivation, and attitudes" of its Mexican American students, and by so doing, improve their academic achievement. Efforts were employed to: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Coogan, Mark, Ed. – 1981
This report abstracts and summarizes 19 Indiana Youth Employment and Training Programs (YETPs) funded in FY 1979-80 with moneys allocated by Subpart A, Title IV YETP of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act of 1977. Projects are grouped into subject categories of ongoing and planning projects. Within categories, the projects are…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adolescents, Career Development, Credits
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