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Alaska State Dept. of Community and Regional Affairs, Juneau. – 1977
This annual report reviews the role of the Alaska Day Care Assistance Program, which was established in 1976 and amended in 1977 to provide child care assistance to families with children under 10 years of age regardless of their eligibility to receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The report describes the financial support awarded to…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Day Care, Family Characteristics, Financial Support
Download full textRafanello, Donna – 1993
To assess the effectiveness of the child care delivery system in Evanston, Illinois, a study was conducted of parent and caregiver perceptions of the affordability, availability, accessibility, and quality of local child care services. Questionnaires were distributed to the directors of 14 local child care centers and to 832 parents currently…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Child Caregivers, Community Leaders, Community Satisfaction
Peer reviewedLong, Patrick T.; Kraus, Barbara – Rural Educator, 1983
The Colorado Rural Recreation Director's Project, based on a 1981 national survey identifying recreation/leisure needs of rural Americans, provided summer recreation for 11 western Colorado rural communities. Clinics in New Games, frisbee, hackisac, and tennis were given. Successful networking of resources by all involved parties produced positive…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Needs Assessment, Physical Recreation Programs, Program Content
Newitt, Jane; And Others – 1984
A policy analysis examined existing school-to-work transition programs in order to identify and evaluate the arguments for a national initiative to provide school-to-work transition services to high school seniors who are poorly equipped to obtain and retain jobs after graduation. To gather data for the study, the researchers conducted a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Mauch, James – 1978
A study was conducted to evaluate the Inter-American Center for the Teaching of Statistics (CIENES), a center established in Santiago, Chile, by the Organization of American States (OAS) to improve statistical reporting and training. Study objectives were to evaluate the administration of CIENES, assess operating costs and program results,…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Course Descriptions, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
National Commission on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1983
The need for efficient and effective systems to deliver financial assistance to students and to administer the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program is assessed, and recommendations for improving delivery systems are provided. Attention is directed to the delivery of Pell Grant and campus-based assistance, the provision of information to current…
Descriptors: College Students, Delivery Systems, Federal Regulation, Government School Relationship
Mendez-Vigo, Marisa – 1994
A study examined training in the retail trade in Spain. Employment, work, and training patterns in Spain's retail sector were researched, and case studies of five retail firms were conducted. Two retailers were too small to afford their own training organization but had formulated personnel policies providing for training. The third case was a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Distributive Education, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Blaschke, Charles L.; And Others – 1977
A project was conducted to assess the evaluation needs of post secondary cooperative education program administrators and to develop procedures and checklists for assessing productivity and impact of postsecondary cooperative education. This work built upon a general design developed in 1976 under part C of Public Law 90-576 for improving…
Descriptors: Administrators, Check Lists, Cooperative Education, Counseling Effectiveness
Rock, William – 1978
The result of a program audit requested by the Office of Education (OE), this report addresses all major elements affecting the operation of the Title I Migrant Education Program and includes recommendations of the Migrant Branch Chief and of key OE advisors for the program. Following a discussion of background legislation, of recommendations…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Banta, Trudy W.; Boser, Judith A. – 1981
Data from individual final project reports and evaluation reports prepared by external evaluators were compiled to evaluate the 17 local projects that were conducted in Tennessee during 1980-81 under the provisions of the Career Education Incentive Act. Included among those areas examined during the evaluation were the following: project…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
An evaluation was made of the classroom and on-the-job training programs administered locally under Title I of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in six states (California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, and Wisconsin). Based on samples of over 3,000 trainees during fiscal year 1976, it was found that job placement…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Problems, Career Guidance, Dropout Rate
European Social Fund, Dublin (Ireland). – 1992
Ireland's program of specific skills training (SST) Objective 1 courses, which are designed to train/retrain the labor force required for implementation of Ireland's Industry and Services Operational Programme, was evaluated by analyzing program expenditure reports and participant profiles, surveying a random sample of 101 employers, and visiting…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Certification, Curriculum Development
Los Angeles Community Coll. District, CA. – 1988
In 1987, a study was conducted by the Los Angeles Community College District's (LACCD) English as a Second Language (ESL) Institute to establish baseline data on the English language needs for the LACCD's service area. The study drew upon census data provided by the Southern California Association of Governments, information on elementary and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This first part of the congressional hearings held in Washington, D.C., in February 1981, to reauthorize the Vocational Education Act of 1963 contains 16 pieces of testimony about vocational education programs in different institutional settings. Individuals giving testimony include representatives of the following institutions: Des Moines…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Lucas, Geoffrey S. – 1985
A study examined nontraditional, community-based rural General Educational Development (GED) programming outreach efforts in Pennsylvania. Data for the study were obtained through two computerized bibliographic searches, interviews and phone calls to the GED Testing Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and from phone calls to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Education, Community Programs
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