This publication presents a set of eight recommended reforms and improvements for delivering financial aid to postsecondary students especially the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). The recommendations are: (1) make applying for student aid simpler for students; (2) assure the continued availability of a dependable, reliable source of…

The Office Information Systems-International Program at Southwestern College, in California, was designed to provide Hispanic students with training for entry-level office employment. In 1993, a project was undertaken to develop and pilot intervention strategies to assist limited-English proficient students in the program's intensive general…

In 1983, the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) established a systemwide program review process calling for the evaluation of instructional programs and student and academic support services on a 5-year cycle. This report describes the 1993 program review process and its results, and provides examples of how specific colleges use the review…

A hearing was held to discuss the future of Project Head Start. Witnesses from corporations offered testimony supporting the strengthening of early childhood education, particularly Head Start, and urging the federal government to give increased attention to early childhood education. Subsequent testimony from experts, program directors, and…

This report describes the summer occupational/vocational programs held in each of three vocational school districts and it compiles activities in the regular school districts in Delaware for fiscal year 1991. The three vocational-technical school district programs profiled are those of Kent County, Sussex County, and New Castle County. For each…

A report is given on a task force exploration of teacher shortages and surpluses and the effect they have on the quality of teacher education programs. Data are presented for the nation, geographic regions, and 16 states: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon,…

An evaluation was conducted of minority (Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian) and female performance in the Army's Initial Entry Rotary Wing flight training program. Each minority group was compared to a matched sample of majority students. The groups were matched on several test scores, education level, age, rank, and source of entry. The…

This report describes problems West Virginia State has experienced in serving children, especially those in poverty-stricken areas, and recommends ways to overcome these problems. In confronting these issues, the task force made recommendations in four topic areas: Reorganization and System Change, Education and Child Care, Teen Pregnancy, and…

The study described in this report was conducted to explore the problems with, and possible alternatives to, the current Title IIA and IIB allocation formula required by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The study included a literature and legislation review; interviews with practitioners, public interest groups, and Congressional staff to…

A survey of former students of the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) wood technics programs and employers in woodworking industries was conducted during spring of 1985. General objectives were to determine job classifications, types of businesses, and relative importance of tasks or duties in various woodworking-related…

The Des Moines Independent Community School District program, Transitioning Youth to Employment (TYE), was implemented in the first semester of the 1983-84 school year. The program's purpose was to bring special education students from self-contained classrooms at the comprehensive high schools to Central Campus for a one-semester course designed…

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--through the explicit and implicit shelter allowance provided under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and General Assistance--spends at least $10 billion a year on housing assistance, or about as much as the Department of Housing and…

An evaluation of the elementary school teacher education program at the University of Texas at Austin sought to identify the most important research-based teaching skills in the program, compare perceptions of all members of the program on specific teaching skills, and identify preservice teachers' perceptions of program components. A composite…

The central purpose of this study was to develop and field test written criterion-referenced tests for the ornamental horticulture component of applied principles of agribusiness and natural resources occupations programs. The test items were to be used by secondary agricultural education students in Florida. Based upon the objectives identified…

At the request of the United States Senate Budget Committee, a study was conducted to analyze present federal programs affecting the youth labor market and to consider a number of alternative options. The study showed that in 1981 the unemployment rate among white youths aged 16-21 was 15 percent, more than twice the average rate for the labor…