Compensatory education funds permit local educational agencies (or school districts) to use a variety of highly specialized materials, resources, and training for the pupils and teachers in eligible schools. These special compensatory services (as individual projects) are systematically assigned on a pupil needs basis. Compensatory education…

The paper examines the economic situations in Greenland and Alaska. Similar in many ways, the 2 countries represent opposite policy poles from a cultural standpoint. The basic economic problem is one of severe regional imbalance when compared with the rest of the nation. For both, government policy has tried to raise income and consumption to a…

The Director's section of this 1972-73 report details the tribal take-over of Johnson-O'Malley (JOM) funds and the state's Indian education program. The narrative portion describes JOM and supportive programs for American Indians in Minnesota. JOM supported projects cover 3 principle areas: (1) basic, e.g., transportation; (2) parental cost…

The annotated bibliography is divided into four main sections: planning and administration of training programs, planning and administration of executive development programs, supervisory development programs, and training methods. The first two sections contain subsections on evaluation, Federal programs, and State programs. The third section has…

The Management Sciences Training Center has among its objectives the following: (1) to provide responsive and practical interagency and intergovernmental training and developmental programs in specialized disciplines used and technical elements involved in the management of public programs, (2) to provide management sciences training support to…

This document presents an overview of the status of Federal legislation for and appropriations to education for the fiscal year 1971. Federal assistance to higher education is discussed, and the amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the National School Lunch Act, and the Special Milk Program are explained. Tables list…

As reported in this publication, about 410,000 Alaskan Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts receive a full range of curative, preventive, and rehabilitative health services--including hospitalization, outpatient medical care, public health nursing, maternal and child health care, dental and nutrition services, and health education. The U.S. Public Health…

Findings and recommendations growing from a 1-year study of the status of education for the children of migratory farm workers are presented. The major focus of this Ford Foundation study is an evaluation of programs financed through special Federal migrant education funds authorized by Congress in a 1966 amendment to Title I of the Elementary and…

Phase II of the Emergency School Assistance Program (ESAP), a federal program designed to aid local education agencies in bringing about racial desegregation of their public school systems is discussed. This phase is an intensive study of 20 selected ESAP districts, which identifies and documents ESAP activities that have successfully aided the…

This study attempts to analyze the relationship between Agency for International Development (AID) University contract goals and the problems encountered in educational assistance project activities through an examination of project operations and the adviser's participation in them. Documents and personnel of 5 of 13 AID projects in Thailand were…

This report is a guide to ESEA Title III programs in Massachusetts. Forty-six programs are described; these programs concern, among many other topics, curriculum development, bilingual education, inservice teacher training, interdisciplinary programs, individualized instruction, learning and behavior problems, and environmental study. In addition…

This report contains the results of a pilot test which represents the first complete field test of methodological work begun in October 1967 under a Federal grant for the purpose of job analysis in the health services. This 4-year Health Services Mobility Study permitted basic research, field testing, practical application, and policy involvement…

A study of the forest operations and wood products industries was conducted in Atlanta and Seattle by the National Society of Professional Engineers. Included among these industries are tree development, crop and land management, logging, material handling transportation, cutting, peeling, assembly, pulp and paper, mobile homes, construction,…

A study of the future use of technology in education was conducted by the National Society of Professional Engineers in order to determine the potential employment opportunities of ex-aerospace technical professional manpower in education. A qualitative review of manpower trends in the fields of teaching, school administration, career counseling,…

From November 1971 to February 1972 the National Society of Professional Engineers conducted a study for the U.S. Department of Labor of public services of Orange County, California, to identify employment potential for scientific personnel in aerospace and defense engineering. The study findings were that fewer than 50 new jobs will become…