This bulletin presents data taken from the report, "Federal Funds for Research, Development, and Other Scientific Activities," Volume 23. Data given for 1974 and 1975 are estimated and do not represent final obligations. The survey on which the report is based was conducted at the midpoint of fiscal year 1974 when the President's budget for fiscal…

An HEW funded Institute on Utilization of Library Manpower was held at the Graduate School of Librarianship, University of Denver, November 29 through December 10, 1971. The 22 participants examined the tasks performed by various library personnel and attempted to evolve new task groupings which would fully utilize the talents and increased…

This speech historically reviews what the federal role is, and what it ought to be, in terms of national priorities, and in terms of what is appropriate within national goals for the present and foreseeable future. Emphasis is placed on the GI Bill of Rights, the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, and the State…

On April 24, 1974, the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science held hearings in San Antonio, Texas, to gather testimony on its proposed program. Six questions were specifically raised by the Commission: priorities for service, improved services and community relations, deficiencies in service, non-book services, paying for…

This document is the third part of a comprehensive study designed to review child development data and a program evaluation data so that proposals for Federal program planning can be made. This section (Volume 3) includes a series of three chapters directed at future program management. The first chapter examines the bases for present and proposed…

The effects of industrialization on the economic and social profile of a rural community are described in this paper. Some of the major changes when industry moves into a community are in the land use and support systems such as an increase in the demand for water, energy, and waste disposal. Other changes are in the labor force, retail sales and…

This report contains the National Institute of Education (NIE) Planning Unit's recommendations for transfer of U.S. Office of Education (USOE) funded R&D projects to NIE upon its effective date of operation. The report recommends that candidates for transfer should generally be ongoing projects monitored in programs scheduled for NIE transfer…

The United States Office of Education has funded, under ESEA Title V, a network of regional projects called Interstate Projects for State Planning and Program Consolidation. The participants in the projects include all of the State education agencies. The purposes of the network of Interstate Projects are to (1) identify, analyze, and work…

The author examines past and present student loan programs and new alternatives. Responsible people take a wide range of positions on the desirable role of student loans in higher education finance. Views on student loans, in part, reflect the relative importance various observers attach to three basic rationales for government intervention in…

The studies discussed in this paper are federally funded intervention studies involving preschool children and follow-up studies of early elementary school children. This paper is divided into three major sections: Day Care Intervention Studies, Child Development Intervention Studies, and Child Advocacy Programs. The purpose of this review is to:…

The intention of this paper was to inform readers about educating Native Americans and what could be done to better meet the Indians' needs. To present this, the paper covered the history of Indian education, the present, and the future. Indians were initially educated to force them to change, assimilate, and become acculturized, rather than to…

The available evidence suggests the MDTA-Institutional program should be revamped with more reliance on the private sector for production and delivery of institutional training. In his review of eleven studies of Federal manpower programs, O'Neill finds that the MDTA-Institutional program, the oldest of the Federal training approaches, has…

The fluid power industry has been a leader in technical education. The problem of preparing skilled manpower is both short-term as regards current needs and long-term in light of the general objectives of American education. Career education provides the solution. The opportunity is available to leaders of the fluid power industry to support both…

This report provides a case study of cooperation between the New Jersey Department of Education and the Model Cities Program to improve State education planning and to restructure grant administration machinery. To assist the project, the Department provided onsite technical assistance to the model cities. According to the report, the Department…

Information about the families contacted by the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) who rejected the invitation to enroll in the program is presented. Interviews were conducted with 147 homemakers whose names appeared on a prime contact list prepared from recommendations of local public agencies. Upon completion of the…