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Durost, Walter N. – 1971
The New Hampshire statewide testing program was implemented to provide a data base for the evaluation of the effectiveness of Title I projects as required by Federal law. To accomplish this objective, achievement and intelligence tests were administered to children in Title I projects and regular programs in four elementary grades--2, 4, 6 and 8.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education
Syracuse Univ. Research Corp., NY. – 1973
This proposal is for an additional New York State secondary certification to be called the Regents External High School Diploma. The new diploma program has been designed to provide a flexible and credible alternative to the four-year high school diploma and to the New York State Equivalency Diploma. The external diploma ordinarily would be…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1969
Progress in the Michigan Statewide Assessment Program initiated during the 1969-70 school year for the purpose of evaluating certain performance levels of the Michigan Public School System is summarized. This report focuses on the assessment of Basic Skills performance in the fourth and seventh grades and describes the specific steps taken to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Educational Programs
1969
The six papers are: (1) "Vocational Education Program Planning at the State Level," by Walter M. Arnold, Director, Pennsylvania Vocational Education Study, (2) "A Systems Approach to Vocational-Technical Education Planning at the Local Level," by Cleveland L. Dennard, President, Washington Technical Institute, (3) "The…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Conference Reports, Educational Planning, Federal State Relationship
Seaman, Don F.; Kohler, Emmett T. – 1969
This reports a large-scale evaluation of the adult basic education (ABE) program in Mississippi, begun under Title II-B of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. In 1968-69 the ABE Program enrollment was 22,000, although the target population was 440,000. When the Mississippi State Department of Education was first authorized to conduct ABE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Civil Rights, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Washington Research Project, Washington, DC. – 1969
This report deals with the aid to local school systems with high concentrations of children from low-income families, but excludes treatment of two other categories of financial assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I--aid to children of migrant workers and American Indian children attending schools operated by the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1974
A plan to integrate consumer education concepts into the Maryland public school curriculum has presented broad goals, concepts, and objectives to form a framework for comprehensive consumer education. Compelling forces accelerating the need for consumer education have originated within schools to make education relevant to the problems of real…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Griffith, William S.; Kent, William P. – 1974
To assess efforts in Adult Basic Education (ABE) on a nationwide basis, a longitudinal evaluation was conducted in 1971 of State programs funded under the Adult Education Act of 1966. Data were gathered across a variety of ABE programs and a representative sample of 2,318 program participants was studied over an 18-month period through a series of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Compensatory Education
Shook, Vern – 1973
The evaluation data for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and State operated dormitories for Native Alaskans is contained in this section of the Project Alaskan Native Needs Assessment. An instrument, originally developed for Project Off-Reservation Boarding Schools, 1972 (ED068237) evaluation, was selected. Eleven procedures for the use of the…
Descriptors: Activities, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Boarding Homes
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
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
In 1967-68, the San Jose Unified District, in cooperation with the Education Division of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., implemented a special program for disadvantaged, underachieving, eighth-grade students. The primary objective of the program was to improve the motivation and achievement of disadvantaged students by providing special…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Mathematics Instruction
Schweitzer, Paul; And Others – 1971
The five State Urban Education C.E.C. programs in District 19 include Project Excellence, a recycled clinical program which provides diagnostic, referral, and educational service to elementary and junior school students who demonstrate some difficulty in their scholastic and/or emotional adjustment to school. In Operation Reading Success for Sixth…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Compensatory Education, Guidance Programs, Paraprofessional School Personnel
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Davidson, Walter; And Others – 1976
The 1975-76 program aimed to: raise or maintain the rate of gain in computational and communicational skills of each student in the tutorial program; improve the computational and communicational skills of each student in the "Career Development" program; increase each "Career Development" student's awareness of, specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment
Sierra Planning and Research Associates, Reno, NV. – 1976
A process assessment was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the procedure used by the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education (USOE), in conducting State Management Evaluation Reviews for Compliance (MERC) with Federal legislation and regulations governing public vocational and adult education programs. The…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Agencies, Adult Education, Adult Programs
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Pope, Jacqueline – Black Scholar, 1988
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is unsatisfactory: it is biased against the poor, and allows the government to control the poor. Evaluates Massachusetts' Employment and Training (ET) program, and New Jersey's Realizing Economic Achievement (REACH) program. Offers recommendations for REACH and for an improved Federal welfare program.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit), Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
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