Section 204 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 directs the General Accounting Office (GAO) to make studies of the costs and benefits of existing programs. This document was developed to respond to this legislation through informational support to GAO and others interested in evaluating the effectiveness of Federal programs. It includes…

The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs held hearings on the "Food Distribution Program." The Program--often referred to as the "commodity distribution,""surplus distribution," or "direct distribution program"--has the dual purpose of alleviating farm surpluses and helping the poor. It…

The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 challenged vocational educators to set up meaningful services for persons with special needs. Pennsylvania vocational educators feel they have begun to accept this challenge. This report reviews the major programs that received funds for the disadvantaged in Pennsylvania under Public Law 90-576 during…

This collection of documents is concerned, specifically, with the problem of drug abuse in the U. S. and the coordinated attack planned by the President's proposed Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention. The office would not be concerned, directly, with problems of reducing drug supply or with the law enforcement aspects of abuse control,…

This speech describes the management by objectives program initiated by the Office of Education and shows how the implementation of such a program in institutions and school systems could assist them to become accountable to their constituencies. A related document is EA 003 885. (JF)

The purpose of this report was to review programs carried out by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) during 1969 and 1970 to help design, develop, implement, and evaluate various means for further strengthening traditionally Negro institutions of higher learning. The report summarizes two 4-week summer workshops for faculty members of…

In tracing the history and purposes of domestic antipoverty programs, this study seeks to explain why the problem of poverty in America is still unsolved. The analysis of past performance and proposals for the future are based on a combination of cost-benefit analysis of specific programs and general economic analysis of the problems of domestic…

A new approach was instituted for the fourth Automatic Data Processing Conference of the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Agency personnel were interviewed prior to the Conference to establish questions and issues that the meeting ought to address. An objective opinion was sought from Organizational Development Associates, a…

The Johnson-O'Malley Act (JOM), passed by Congress in 1934, authorized the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to contract with the states and other political entities for educational services to American Indians. Although the rationale for the JOM program was not understood well by a high proportion of the Indian patrons of public schools or by the…

This report, while urging increased federal aid to elementary and secondary education, cautions that the manner in which these dollars are disbursed is also critical. The author outlines some of the problems of categorical aid programs and suggests that the revenue sharing concept may be a preferable mechanism for providing general aid to…

This is the second in a series of reports from the U. S. Metric Study conducted by the National Bureau of Standards, focusing on the impact of universal adoption of the metric system on federal agencies other than the Department of Defense. Fifty-five such agencies participated in this survey, 20 percent of which anticipate increasing metric usage…

We must search for greater productivity in the teaching and learning process. During the past 15 years expenditures for elementary and secondary education have climbed from about four percent of GNP to eight percent. Much of this expenditure has been for educational technology, but we still don't know enough about how to use it. To help make…

This report extensively reviews the progress of the United States in space during 1967, the tenth year of the space age. The first chapter of the report summarizes the 1967 space activities; and each of the remaining 13 chapters is devoted to reviewing the space-related activities of a particular federal agency (13 agencies included). Appendices…

THIS DIRECTORY GROUPS FEDERAL ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES ALPHABETICALLY BY ADMINISTERING AGENCIES AND LISTS, WHEREVER APPLICABLE, (1) PROGRAM TITLE, (2) NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM, (3) ELIGIBLE GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS, (4) AMOUNT (WHEN AVAILABLE) AND NATURE OF THE FUNDS OR OTHER ASSISTANCE, (5) LEGAL AUTHORITY, (6) SOURCES OF…

This position paper, prepared by the Conference of Local Environmental Health Administrators, places the planning potential of environmental health in its proper perspective in Health Systems Agencies planning and policy formation. (Author/BB)