Prepared for a symposium presented September 1972 at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference (Salt Lake City) these papers represent political and ethnological research on western Great Basin Indians. The topics include (1) "Developing Political Power in Two Southern Paiute Communities", (2) "Channels of Political Expression…

The monograph asserted that the focus of Navajo education should be on the growth and development of Navajo children and the advancement of Navajo communities. The present system developed negative, anti-school feelings in many adults and children. Changes and improvements were urged. The document assumed that persons concerned with Navajo…

The purpose of this booklet is to provide a brief and concise outline of those Federal education programs which are of most interest to the Spanish-speaking community. The programs described are those funded under Title I and Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. A description of Title VII, how it works, who…

The Division of Compensatory Education, which administers Title I in the U.S. Office of Education, has examined a number of successful projects to determine what constitutes a good Title I project and what are the common denominators of success. The Williamsburg program, involving 25 kindergarten teachers, 100 teachers in grades 1 through 4, 20…

The report describes a 4-year demonstration project conducted by the Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind to determine the feasibility of training blind persons to work as taxpayer service representatives for the Internal Revenue Service. During the period (1967-1971), 10 training classes were completed. Trainees were placed in job positions in 32…

The Clinton Cassette Project was begun during 1969-70 to find out if children with reading problems could learn their lessons by listening to them on cassette tapes. This project was the first to include setups for individual and group listening in every classroom in an elementary school. Many tapes were produced and duplicated at Clinton School,…

Fourteen elementary teachers evaluated the quality and usefulness of 146 tapes produced by the Clinton Pilot Cassette Center, Minneapolis, Minn. Teachers' opinions, rather than tests on students, were the basis of the ratings. Judging from the ratings, most of the cassettes appear suitable for use with educationally disadvantaged youth and were in…

This report concerns aspects of the United States' changing policies for providing economic and technical assistance to developing nations. Of primary importance in a review of relationships with those rapidly developing nations no longer eligible for concessional assistance from the Agency for International Development (AID) are the possible…

This is the fourth of five documents compiled to report on the problem of innovation and change in the context of projects supported by the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Systems (NCIES) and the first in a series of two documents that examine in detail the Career Opportunities Program (COP) and its effects on COP aides,…

This handbook was written as a tool to acquaint teachers and trainers with the numerous existing programs to train the under-educated adult. Part I: People and Programs deals with looking at clients in Adult Basic Education programs and becoming acquainted with some Federal efforts in the field. Part II: Approaches to Teaching the Undereducated…

Parents' preferences for day care services are compared with the major types of existing day care. Survey data on the types of services parents prefer is first summarized. Then the major types of available day care are described. Finally, each type of care is evaluated on the basis of available data concerning parents' satisfaction with and…

Funding sources for migrant child care programs and their various components, such as services, personnel, food, equipment, and some Federal child care legislation bills, are given in this publication. The programs are grouped into the various agencies and departments of the Federal government which help fund them (i.e., the Department of Health,…

This report examines some school district characteristics as predictors of Federal aid applications. In the elementary school districts of one northern California county, the author tested hypotheses that applications for Federal aid were functions of (1) the school district awareness of Federal aid programs, (2) the rate of growth and financial…

It was the purpose of this 1958 paper to demonstrate to the Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian how Indian tribes were first dealt with as sovereign nations and how this concept has changed through time (particularly from 1948 to 1958). When the sovereign-nations or treaty period came to a close, the…

The purpose of this report is to review the history of the commitment to ensure nutritional adequacy for all American families during the last several years, and to study the relationship between proposed welfare reform measures and that commitment to nutritional adequacy. A specific proposal, H.R.1, eliminates food stamps, the Nation's primary…