This document analyzes and evaluates data to compare educational program inputs with program results in Texas. School district superintendents, principals, and classroom teachers completed questionnaires concerning school organizational patterns, size, and services; facility conditions; student background, absences, behavior, and performance; and…

Six articles discuss the 1987 Economic Censuses: a historical review by Bohme; Worden on the value of economic censuses; Wikoff and Powell-Hill on planning the questionnaire; Blum, Bowman, and Sullivan on changing data needs; Zeisset on the data's availability to users; and Schlueter, Ray, and Hartz on international economic statistics. (EM)

This study presents a detailed evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), a federal program designed to assist state efforts to develop and improve public libraries, and examines the policy implications of these results as they relate to the future of federal involvement in public…

This analysis of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) In-School Enrollee was based on a probability sampling of all the nation's youths enrolled in the program. 3,618 were studied. A comparative group of 1,143 similar line poverty youngsters in the same schools, but not in the Neighborhood Youth Corps, were also analyzed in areas where parallelisms…

Volume 3 of the 3-volume report by ACKCO, Inc. presents various appendixes pertaining to the legislative review and the fiscal, management, and program studies conducted by ACKCO, Inc. to review the Impact-Aid Program, Johnson-O'Malley Program, Indian Education Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I. A chronological summary of…

The summative evaluation of the Small College Consortium (SCC) for the school year 1977-78 examined the project to assess: its perceived impact; the effectiveness of the project staff; the adequacy of the budget available to each college; the degree to which comprehensive, integrated, ongoing development has taken hold; perceived needs for future…

Data from monthly and quarterly reports to the Director of Education are summarized to present an overview of vocational education in Canada as offered by public and private institutions excluding universities. Content includes federal participation in vocational education and a summary of programs in: (1) institutes of technology, (2) technical,…

THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS REPORT DESCRIBES HOW TITLE I ACTIVITIES WERE INITIATED IN ARIZONA AND THE VICISSITUDES OF COORDINATING THEM WITH OTHER PROJECTS FUNDED UNDER THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT AND OTHER FEDERAL ACTS. MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS INCLUDED (1) UNDERSTAFFING WHICH HINDERED THE STATE IN PROCESSING PROPOSALS, (2)…

The question, "How many people are enrolled in public school adult education?" is presented. The current survey on Adult Education in the Public Education System is one of several surveys. Adult education is defined here as "organized instruction to meet the unique needs of persons beyond compulsory school age who have interrupted or completed…

Factors such as jobs, counseling, family backgrounds and relationships, adult associations, school personnel influence, and general poverty characteristics were analyzed within the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) and comparative groups of youths. Focus was placed on how these elements influenced their adjustment to self and school. Although 84% of…

High School and Beyond is a national longitudinal study of the cohorts of 1980 high school seniors and sophomores in the United States. The School File, a machine-readable data file (MRDF) contains questionnaire response data provided by administrators from 988 public, Catholic, and private schools. The file focuses on a number of school…

The effectiveness of the Nichols Avenue Follow-Through Program, in Washington, D.C., and the extent to which it provides for improving opportunities for children of low-income families to learn and achieve up to and above national norms in the areas of reading and mathematics were evaluated. The program goals were to assure that: (1) by the end of…

In summer of 1970, the Atlanta Public Schools received funds for a camp project involving 380 junior high pupils, 95% Negroes and 5% Caucasians. Objectives included providing the opportunity for pupils to assume responsibility, develop self-reliance, and thereby increase self-respect; teaching the skills involved in outdoor recreation; teaching…

Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title II funds were used in a 12-month project for the improvement of mathematics and science teaching at the prekindergarten through grade 12 levels in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD). The project provided: (1) staff development workshops; (2) consultants to develop a secondary…

A summary report is presented of the first of two interviews with a random sample of parents of kindergarten, third and sixth grade students in the project. Undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Parental Involvement Component of the Title VII Bilingual Project, the interviews had a twofold objective: (1) to measure the degree of home support…