Three panels appearing before the Senate Special Committee on Aging discuss the sensitivity of the Administration on Aging to Native Americans, coordination of services between Title II and Title VI of the Older Americans Act, and availability of services under the act. Witnesses recommend language be included in the reauthorization of the Older…

This report examines participation rates in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. TRIM2, a microsimulation model that simulated the eligibility and benefit rules of the AFDC program on a state-by-state basis, showed that there had been a dramatic decline after 1981 in the rate at which AFDC families were applying for and…

Studies show Hispanics to have substantially higher rates of illiteracy than any other major population group in the United States. Illiteracy is one of a number of language problems for this population; other problems include limited oral English proficiency and native language illiteracy. Hispanics drop out of school in higher numbers and leave…

This report describes the 3 years of operation of the Special Education Software Center (Menlo Park, California), implemented with federal funding by SRI International, LINC Resources Inc., and the Council for Exceptional Children. The report describes activities of the Center and portrays, from the patterns of information requests received by the…

The Office of the State Comptroller in New York conducted several audits of the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) at about 90 registered business schools in the state. TAP provides up to $3,300 per year in tuition assistance to disadvantaged students who take approved programs at the private schools. In 1985-86, TAP paid about $45 million to the…

These proceedings of a national Australian conference deal with many aspects of educating gifted and talented students and contain an opening address by I. Mathieson concerning the philosophy of the Queensland (Australia) State Education Department and a statement by James Gallagher, President of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.…

This U.S. General Accounting Office report discusses the Medicaid management controls needed to assure that mentally retarded residents of nursing homes receive the services they need to help them function independently. Medicaid's involvement with the retarded in institutions and nursing homes includes financing active treatment services, such as…

Specifically organized for the use of South Carolina public and private agencies providing information and referral services to migrant farmworkers, the directory is the most current listing of federal, state, and local resources available. Federal programs of the Farmers Home Administration, applicable sections of the Social Security Act, and…

The Bienvenido Bilingual Education Project was funded under Title VII of the Elementary Secondary Education Act and implemented in kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms of two elementary schools in Clark County, Nevada. The project aimed to provide for the bilingual educational needs of Spanish speaking students which had not been met by…

Intended primarily for state and local health and education staff, the guide considers using the school setting as one resource in the Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) Program. Chapter I introduces the EPSDT program and describes its services to Medicaid eligible children. The chapter also sets forth school health goals as…

Given the fundamental program changes that have occurred in the nation's social programs since President Reagan took office, federal evaluation activities need to be rethought and redirected. It is critical that the utility of programs be documented, economical delivery services be developed, and redundancy of interventions be reduced to optimize…

A summary of 1981-82 Title I funded educational projects carried out in the State of Georgia is provided in this annual report. Data in the report are based on a reporting sample of one-third of the State's participating school districts, and lead to the following information. (1) More than 57,000 Georgia school children participated in regular…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a federally funded, nationwide survey of educational achievement in 10 academic fields. The program is examined to determine whether viable alternatives exist to measure educational achievement. The information produced by NAEP concerns the educational achievement of 9-year-olds;…

This report describes evaluation activities for federally funded education programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 1981. Chapter 1 briefly discusses organizational and policy changes within the Department that affected evaluation. Chapter 2 provides overviews of evaluation procedures undertaken for programs in elementary and…

The paper reports an attempt to evaluate instructional practices in compensatory education by looking at both costs and effects associated with the practices. The study covered some 300 Chapter l projects over a three-year period, focusing on project settings and instructional approaches used in the projects. Results of the study indicated that…