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Download full textEmrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
American Indian and Alaska Native students enrolled in public schools have performed consistently below other students on national assessments from 2005-2019. The Johnson-O'Malley (JOM) program provides academic and cultural supports, through contracts, to meet the specialized and unique educational needs of American Indian and Alaska Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, American Indian Education, Public Schools, Alaska Natives
US Senate, 2017
This hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions examines fixing No Child Left Behind, focusing on supporting teachers and school leaders. Following an opening statement by Honorable Lamar Alexander (Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions), the following senators provide statements: (1) Honorable Patty…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Educational Improvement
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1977
Problems in the administration and management of Indian affairs were identified in two hearings held during the summer of 1977. The July 13 meeting featured non-governmental witnesses; much of the discussion focused on findings of a management study of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) initiated by the American Indian Policy Review Commission.…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Agency Role, American Indians
McPheeters, Harold L. – 1982
Issues are identified that should be considered by state officials, mental health program directors, university officials, and research coordinators and managers in setting up and managing state-supported mental health research programs. The following categories of research are defined: basic, basic categorical, clinical, socio-epidemiological,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, College Role, Cooperative Programs, Financial Support
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1995
This document presents witness testimony and supplemental materials from a Congressional hearing called to evaluate the progress of the High Performance Computing and Communications program in light of budget requests, to examine the appropriate role for the government in such a project, and to see demonstrations of the World Wide Web and related…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Government Role, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
The Subcommittee focused its 1-2 February 1977 hearings on the educational activity of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), as the beginning of an effort to obtain an accurate picture of the current state of educational programs dealing with Indians and the development of ways to improve both the programs and their delivery. On 1 February a panel…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Community Schools
Pelavin, Diane; And Others – 1980
An important indicator of the success of a funding agency is the achievement and impact of the projects it supports. This paper, one of three related documents, examines the effectiveness of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, a fund to improve educational opportunities. A telephone survey was conducted in 1979 of all of the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Innovation, Equal Education, Federal Programs
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1994
This report provides an evaluation of the implementation of the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSLP) and the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to provide educational loans to postsecondary students and their families. The report recommends that ED: (1) ensure that FDSLP…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Government School Relationship, Higher Education, Institutional Role
PDF pending restorationGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1991
A study examined local U.S. Employment Service (ES) office placement performance and the role of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in guiding and monitoring state and local ES program performance. Regression and other statistical methods were used to analyze state and local program performance based on the following: placement data for…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Employment Services, Federal Programs, Job Placement
Ashby, Cornelia M. – 2003
Recent events have increased concerns about the potential for fraud in student loan programs related to loans for U.S. residents attending foreign schools. In 2002 the Office of Special Investigations of the General Accounting Office (GAO) created a fictitious foreign school that the Department of Education subsequently certified as eligible to…
Descriptors: Agency Role, College Students, Foreign Countries, Fraud
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1975
This collection of statements of goals and objectives from member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) contains: (1) sections from management review and analysis program reports from the University of Washington Libraries and the University of Rochester Library; (2) a detailed organization description from the Columbia…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Higher Education, Library Administration
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1982
This report deals with testimony from delegates to the 1981 White House Conference on Aging and contains the delegates' and observers' evaluations of the conference and their recommendations. The statements provided include those of the conference director and other staff members and representatives from the audience who describe the planning of…
Descriptors: Activism, Aging (Individuals), Alienation, Citizen Participation
US House of Representatives, 2006
The purpose of this hearing was to review the effectiveness and value of the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) past and present programs in support of improvement of K-12 science and math education and to examine what role the Foundation should play in future federal initiatives for strengthening K-12 science and math education. This hearing…
Descriptors: Hearings, Agency Role, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This hearing examined issues concerning Project Head Start quality and expansion. Testimony was offered by: (1) Senator Edward Kennedy, who discussed the importance of strengthening Head Start; (2) Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, who presented highlights…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Government Role
Peer reviewedBradley, Doug – Change, 1979
Difficulties experienced by colleges with the regulations and policies of the Veterans Administration regarding the eligibility of veterans for educational benefits are discussed. Especially problematic are the "standards of progress" and "seat time" regulations. A study undertaken to examine the problem has not produced any…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Eligibility, Federal Government, Federal Regulation
