The central question of this research pertained to the degree to which Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) enrollees, NYC personnel, and potential employers shared a common frame of reference, and held similar views regarding the transactions involved in entering the world of work. This was studied by an examination of the work related perceptions of…

This report, compiled by the Urban Education Task Force (under the Department of Health Education and Welfare), offers both a comprehensive analysis of the crisis in urban education and recommendations for the future. Chapters cover: the financial crisis of the urban schools, urban education as a system, the impoverished urban student, and the…

This report bears on the status of a program for nine Portland elementary schools comprising "Area II" (Model Schools) which were selected to receive additional assistance directed at helping underachieving children to greater school success. The following are dealt with: enrollment statistics; the school program; staffing; progress and…

Utilizing funds from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, representatives of the Pima Agency, Education Branch, requested the assistance of the Bureau of Educational Research and Services, College of Education, Arizona State University, in the development and presentation of a program of professional in-service education to enrich…

A three-year Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) project in mathematics was initiated at Hall Elementary School in Minneapolis, September 1969, under ESEA Title I funding. Hall School is in a low income area of the city and nearly all children in the project were considered educationally disadvantaged. First year evaluation results show that…

This book deals with the question of identifying the optimal mix between public and private programs and provides some guides concerning the appropriate role of government in the manpower area. There is a need for public manpower programs which give some long range direction to manpower policies and which give continuing emphasis to the…

The Tennessee Adult Basic Education Supervisors' Conference was held at Memphis State University in August, 1970; objectives were to provide information for the local supervisors on the purpose of adult basic education programs, guidelines and plans under which they have to operate, teacher training, the results of the Tennessee State Evaluation…

Objectives of this project were to identify and catalog all existing reports on contracted evaluation studies by the Community Action Program (CAP) evaluation branch and the various program offices; to analyze a sample of contracted evaluation studies in terms of their adequacy as research projects; to assess a sample of CAP inhouse evaluations;…

Explanatory statements by acting executive director of the National Council on Indian Opportunity noted (1) that the council was formed to involve Indian people in Federal policy and the program-formulation process and (2) that principal functions of the NCIO were to encourage full use of Federal programs to benefit Indians, to encourage…

An interschool summer seminar for high school students of varying racial and cultural backgrounds was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The objective of the six-week seminar, funded under ESEA, Title I, was to give the students the opportunity to learn about the patterns which constitute prejudice. Due to the late approval of the program only 49 of a…

The document, prepared by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, describes the Upward Bound program of talent development to prepare low-income youth for college. Policy guidelines and application instructions are presented under the rubrics of the applicant agencies, the Upward Bound student target population, and the academic institution (its…

After 3 years of operation, the Appalachian Regional Commission presents this report and evaluation of its activities as required by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. A brief overview is given of the history of the program, the Federal-state relationship, the strategy and method of attacking the regions' rural and urban problems,…

Evaluated is a project to increase services for socially maladjusted pupils in four New York City schools located in institutional settings. Additional teaching staff, equipment, and supplies were allotted to these schools under Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs. The degree of implementation of the plan to augment…

This study described and compared 12 current national work and training programs under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and the 1962 Amendments to the Social Security Act; investigated whether operation of the two public welfare systems reflected the intent of national policy and client needs; and identified operational problems encountered in…

This report, second in a three part series, surveys the educational activities administered by Federal agencies. It describes each program and summarizes the activities including data on funds obligated for them. Such activities are construed to include: (1) educational activities which are a Federal responsibility as indicated by statute or other…