Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

How do children fare in the federal budget? Investments in children's health, education, and overall well-being pay high dividends for taxpayers and the economy as a whole. Without adequately funded education, nutrition, housing, early education and care, and other basic supports, the foundation of children's well-being is at risk. This report 1)…

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

This document profiles 150 Federal benefit programs that provide cash on noncash assistance to persons demonstrating need or who qualify for benefits as a result of either contributions made by them or on their behalf or military service. These programs spent more than $400 billion in Federal tax dollars in fiscal year 1983, excluding…

In this report, an abbreviated descriptive summary of each Title I compensatory education project implemented by local education agencies in New York State during fiscal year 1977 is provided. Listed by county and city, each program is explained in terms of grade level, staffing, objectives, services, materials, number of pupils served and…

A survey is presented of the scope of the program of the Agency for International Development in the field of educational assistance to certain developing countries. The survey revises and updates previous surveys completed annually since 1966. The regions of the world in which A.I.D. operates--Africa, the Near East and South Asia, Latin America,…

Model programs funded under the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) and administered by the Office of Education Women's Program staff are intended to reach girls and women from low-income and middle-age groups those from American-Indian, Asian- and Pacific-American, black, and Spanish-speaking backgrounds, and those from rural, urban, and…

Giving a child the chance to select and keep a book for her or his very own is the Federal Inexpensive Book Distributions Program's strategy for stimulating an interest in reading. (Editor)

The second of three articles on the "individualized education program" concept set forth in P.L. 94-142 points out the importance of teacher training in making the idea work. (Editor)

This booklet is a collection of proven exemplary educational programs and practices from the National Diffusion Network (NDN). As part of a two-part series, this publication covers alternative schools and their programs. The NDN facilitates the exchange of information between the developers of successful projects and adopting districts. Many of…

A description of the French program in Ottawa schools and a look at the costs and sources of revenue for implementing a second language program. (Editor)

Approximately 288 programs conducted in various counties of Georgia during the regular school year or summer of 1969 and funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act are here reported in summary fashion. The following information is provided concerning each program: name of system, name of project, regular or summer…

A description is provided of the format used to estimate the costs associated with the development and operation of a computer-managed instructional system. Total costs are conceptualized as a function of the number of hours devoted to each stage of the project and the cost per hour. The data management systems which were developed required…