The purpose of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I is to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies serving areas with concentrations of educationally disadvantaged children from low-income families. This document explains the administrative structure necessary to impliment Title I programs on national, State, and…

Directed toward personnel in the Agency for International Development (AID), this document reviews the planning of AID educational assistance programs in developing nations. The report recommends that AID personnel should be in a position (a) to assign, organize, and monitor the planning of their own activities in the field of education; (b) to…

The sector approach to analysis of nation-wide learning services is a means of viewing all aspects of national development from the perspective of human resources. Such an approach requires a descriptive national profile; an analysis in terms of dynamics, output, goals, and constraints; a strategy to achieve the goals; and a plan to actualize…

Volume 2 of the evaluation report of the effects of ESAP comprises 5 working papers resulting from the evaluators' decision to explore the variety of research problems relevant to desegregation and policy making that they met with during the evaluation process. The first two papers deal with race relations in desegregated Southern schools: the…

This supplement was designed to be used in conjunction with Paper No. Six, which contains a detailed description of the methodology employed. In conjunction with General Accounting Office, the Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy chose as study sites six areas of the Nation from among the 59 census areas which have been designated by the Census Bureau as…

This book has been created to meet the basic needs of future teachers, educational specialists, parents, and those citizens who desire to become better informed on current educational concepts and practices. Eight chapters discuss the nature of the community, the activation of the educative community, the community school and community education,…

In this report, the results of analyses of data from ESEA Title I Program evaluations collected in the 1969 Survey of Compensatory Education are presented. These data analyses bear on the evaluation of the operations and impact of the programs in 9236 school districts and 3219 elementary schools, involving 215,995 teachers of 5,733,976 pupils in…

Section 3602 of the New York State Education Law provides supplementary means of improving the teacher-learning situation for those students having special educational needs associated with poverty. Funds are provided on an annual basis, 1970-71 being the third one for receipt of such funds by New York City. This bulletin contains summaries of…

Included are reports on seven case studies that identify the strategies used by projects to accomplish their goals and the context surrounding the change process in each project. The case studies are summarized in a final section and are organized around goals; organization and management; communicating skills and knowledge to trainees; trainee…

The development and application of a computerized model, designed to stimulate the nation's future educational needs and resources and the disaprities between them, are described. The results of the simulation, reported by region and by type of residential area, allow the following types of projections through 1980: (1) enrollment given…

Awareness of the importance of education in the achievement of national goals has led to an increasingly important role for the Federal Government in financing and governing education, particularly in those areas contributing the most to the achievement of national priorities. This increased participation of the Federal Government in education has…

The Black Child Development Institute is guided in its analysis of legislation by an organizational commitment to building child development institutions which meet the comprehensive needs of black children, families, and communities. Its premises are threefold. First, child development must encompass the black child's cognitive, physical, social,…

Empirical evidence is presented consistent with the hypothesis that instructional expenditures are distributed unequally, and that less is spent on non-white and poor students than on others in large American cities. The most experienced teachers are generally to be found in schools attended by the less poor white children. More important, the…

Reported on are the aggregated financial aid needs of full-time undergraduate students attending New Jersey's colleges and universities during the 1973-74 academic year. An aggregate need analysis methodology is employed, using assumptions that produce the most conservative estimates possible. Computation includes student's and parent's expected…

A discussion of the concept of equality as it relates to educational opportunities in New Jersey and as it has been interpreted both historically and in the present day setting, is the focus of this paper. The notion of equality and equal opportunity has been a part of American history from the beginning. Although throughout history many people…