The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) is now before Congress for review and reenactment. This article examines previous CETA program efforts and the new provisions intended to target jobs and training to the most disadvantaged in terms of income and length of unemployment. (Author/AM)

In this short essay, Douglas J. Besharov argues that Congress should mandate an honest assessment of Head Start's strengths and weaknesses to enable the program to more effectively enhance early childhood education. He discusses evidence of Head Start's limited effectiveness and proposes that it begin operating based on research.

Attempts to provide the school administrator and his food service manager with information about how to best operate the cafeteria in view of food shortages and new USDA regulations. Describes foods that will be in relatively ample supply during coming months and analyzes whether food vending machines are a help or a menace to nutritious lunch…

The authors challenge the prevalent view that the cure for rising welfare costs is to put more people to work. (RJ)

Supervisors rate former welfare recipients equal to or better than regular workers. (Editor)

A successful program must be able to offer participants the jobs which they consider superior to their presently available alternatives. (Editor)

Describes a three-phase program designed by the Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency to help the rural poor; includes development of human resources, housing, and economic resources. (JM)

This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

Address presented at the 1970 Conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Boston, Mass., November 21, 1970. (AJ)

The guidelines for Title IV Consolidation, Part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, provide direction to state education agencies for the diffusion of exemplary or innovative programs and practices. In Illinois, diffusion strategies developed under Title IV-C have resulted in the replication of many successful programs. (GC)

To enable decision makers to become more aware of the levels of confidence that can be placed in the results of particular computerized decision models, methods for establishing confidence levels are discussed. The U.S. General Accounting Office has developed criteria and review procedures for evaluating computerized policy analysis models.…