Article is the transcript of a speech by Dr. John Barcroft, Director of the Division of Public Programs for the National Endowment for the Humanities, given at the National Meeting of State-Based Committees in Washington during May of 1973. (GB)

Shows that only 21 states have legislation designed to aid gifted children (termed those with intelligence scores of 120 and above). (DS)

A rehabilitation project at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury which provided job training for inmates in such occupations as maintenance men, farmhands, cook helpers, and general maids. (BC)

Ten-state project tests new routes to better life for itinerant workers. (Editor)

The article discusses the feasibility of developing small living alternatives with Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded funds. (Author/SB)

Concludes that Title I has suffered from a politically bad image that might be due in part to unrealistic expectations. (FL)

Discusses problems that social scientists face when evaluating social programs, including cost, methodological concerns, and the development and application of new analytical techniques. (GC)

Program evaluation as a methodology is discussed, and its application to government export promotion programs is examined. Because the variety of approaches to export program evaluation, resulting data are often of limited usefulness. A programmatic approach to program evaluation is proposed. (TJH)

Congress substituted direct federal loans for federal guarantee of private loans for postsecondary education. Budget savings were overestimated because credit risks, recognition of administrative costs, and increases in administrative and borrowing costs were ignored. Savings could have been achieved by reducing returns to private lenders and…

This directory of supportive and rehabilitative programs for people with deafness includes federal programs; state vocational rehabilitation offices; regional and local programs; national professional organizations and centers; chapters of the National Association of the Deaf; and professional committee members of two other organizations. (DB)

Stresses the need for increased federal, state, and local support for child immunizations resulting from the alarming increases in the incidence of rubella and other infectious diseases, and endorses the Standards for Pediatric Immunization Practices recently published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association." (MDM)

Discusses how the direct-lending program, popular with colleges, may be doomed; a lawsuit and changing political fortunes pose threats to the system. (EV)

Educators across the United States continue to enable a wider and more ethnically diverse proportion of students to achieve success in AP[R]. Significant inequities remain, however, which can result in traditionally underserved students not receiving the type of AP (Advanced Placement) opportunities that can best prepare them for college success.…

This first document in a three-volume summative evaluation report presents a portion of the internal evaluation conducted by the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state region. (The three-volume report presents both…

This second document in a three-volume summative evaluation report presents a portion of the internal evaluation conducted by the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state region. (The three-volume report presents both…