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Duis, Harold F. – 1970
This preliminary report, consisting of 14 statistical tables and a summary of their contents, was prepared from the states' reports on vocational education programs. The tables, which include data on enrollments and expenditures, indicate the national norm and each state's relationship to this norm. For certain items, data for previous years are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
Gibney, Thomas – 1971
To determine the impact of Summer Institutes on the professional activities and competence of the participants, a questionnaire was sent to 5,452 participants of 1970 Summer Institutes approximately 16 months after they had returned to their classrooms. Completed questionnaires were returned by 4,476 participants. Several demographic…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Institutes (Training Programs), Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Teachers
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2001 geography results show student improvement since 1994 at grades 4 and 8. The average score of twelfth-grade students, however, has not changed significantly when compared to 1994 results. This colorfully illustrated and easy-to-read report, which highlights findings of "The Nation's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1995
The Workshop on Integrating Federal Statistics on Children provided a forum for assessing strengths and shortcomings of existing and proposed federal statistical data sources for children and families. In particular, these data sources were assessed with respect to their capacity to fill the most pressing information needs of those who formulate,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Health, Children
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. General Education Div. – 1992
This document first provides an overall explanation of the Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1 and then describes Arkansas' involvement in Chapter 1 services. The report reveals that there were 76,588 Arkansas students who received Chapter 1 services in fiscal year (FY) 92, which amounted to a 7 percent increase over the previous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
McClintock, Charles – 1985
Factors related to the contextual aspects of educational administrators' information needs were studied in a statewide survey of 199 administrators of adult and community education programs. Attention was directed to: varying preferences for different information sources, the effects of different decision or program development tasks on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, College Administration, Decision Making
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Congressional Research Service. – 1985
This report contains the results of an evaluation of the impact of U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO on various international educational, scientific, and cultural activities. The study was undertaken to assist Congressional subcommittees in considering the Reagan administration's fiscal year 1986-87 requests for contributions to the United Nations'…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Communications, Copyrights, Cultural Activities
HARDING, LARRY G.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH INVESTIGATION WAS TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATENESS OF CURRENT AVIATION STRUCTURAL MECHANIC S (STRUCTURES) SCHOOL, CLASS A, TRAINING FOR MENTAL GROUP IV PERSONNEL. THIS TRAINING CONSISTS OF A SEQUENCE OF THREE COURSES. IT WAS FOUND THAT 50 PERCENT OF THE GROUP IV STUDENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM TRAINING PRIOR TO…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Failure, Aviation Mechanics, Enlisted Personnel
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1965
Under the Navajo Emergency Education Program, launched in 1953, dormitories were built in towns near reservations and Indian children attended public schools under contractual agreements between the schools and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). In 1964 three BIA educators were designated to conduct an investigation of the program. The following…
Descriptors: American Indians, Contracts, Dormitories, Educational Opportunities
Weisberg, Herbert I; Haney, Walt – 1977
Both administratively and in terms of their evaluations, Head Start and Follow Through have been treated as separate programs. Follow Through was initially conceived, however, as an effort to preserve and augment Head Start gains. In this report, achievement test data on a set of children who participated in both Head Start and Follow Through are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Data Analysis
Stebbins, Linda B.; And Others – 1977
This segment of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model presents background information and discusses the evaluation of the progress of Cohort III entering-kindergarten children during 4 years of Follow Through participation. Also discussed, for the purpose of examining replicability of effects, is the progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience
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Harrison, Helene W. – 1975
The program is primarily designed to provide bilingual education for pupils, in grades K-6, with limited English-speaking ability. Due to parental requests, approximately 16 percent monolingual English-speakers have been accepted into the program. Of the 529 children enrolled in the program, 89 percent have Spanish surnames. Objectives for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Anglo Americans, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students
Arnstein, George – 1976
The problem with the G. I. Bill is that some veterans enroll in school, start collecting their monthly stipends, do not attend classes but keep on collecting. The Veterans Administration is trying to protect federal funds and is trying to stop the cheating, but it may not be doing the right thing. The real problem is seen to be more complex,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Records, Conference Reports, Educational Assessment
Dutton, Donnie – 1970
A five-day adult basic education workshop was held at Somerville, Tennessee, in February of 1970 for 21 teaching and administrative personnel of the Fayette county Manpower and Economic Development Administration. This report of the workshop contains only: edited presentations of the instructional materials; group reports prepared by participants;…
Descriptors: Achievement, Administrators, Adult Basic Education, Adults
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1967
The annual report gives data on the United States contribution through the Agency for International Development (AID) toward the training of persons from the less developed countries, in the U.S. or a third country. Included is background information on AID-sponsored training as regards: (1) relationship to program goals (2) cost sharing; (3)…
Descriptors: Contracts, Developing Nations, Educational Objectives, Financial Support
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