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St. John, Edward P. – 1989
This document identifies and describes the sources of public support for postsecondary vocational training in the United States, including the mix of public assistance that is currently available to economically disadvantaged individuals. Following an introduction, the second section is an overview of the general financing situation. Tables report…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Eligibility
Manset, Genevieve; St. John, Edward P.; Simmons, Ada B.; Worthington, Kimberly; Chung, Choong-Geun; Manoil, Kim – 2000
This report summarizes a study of the impact of Indiana's Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program (ELIGP) on schools in the third year of funding, 1999-2000. This impact study replicates the study completed in the first 2 years of ELIGP funding (1997-98, 1998-99) and includes the following: an analysis of the impact of ELIGP, focusing on changes…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Educational Research, Grants

St. John, Edward P.; Hu, Shouping; Weber, Jeff – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2000
This study used the "workable persistence model" to assess the effects of financial aid on persistence of full-time resident undergraduates within the Indiana State postsecondary system. The analysis provides support for state-provided, need-based financial aid programs, and finds that student financial aid is adequate to equalize…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Grants, Higher Education, Models

St. John, Edward P. – Research in Higher Education, 1999
A study piloted a new approach to assessing the effects of changes in funding for state grant programs on college assistance. Analysis of Washington's state grant program indicates that an increase in state funds for need-based grants in 1993-1994 resulted in improved within-year persistence in public four-year universities. It is concluded that…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Grants, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness