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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1981
By request of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the General Accounting Office (GAO) verified the number of full-time equivalent Indian students reported as attending 12 tribally controlled community colleges during the 1980-1981 academic year and obtained college officials' opinions on the benefits of the Tribally Controlled Community…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, American Indian Education, American Indians, College Students
Jacobs, James N. – 1980
Several examples are offered of situations in which, in order to be in compliance with one law or regulation, the district was in violation of another. Legislation cited which has caused such conflicts includes (l) the Auxiliary Services Act, (2) Title I, and (3) mandates to use the urban mass transit system for transporting children to school.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
The volume contains six working papers presented at a 1981 National Institute of Education conference on Indian participation in educational research. The articles are: "A Cross-Cultural Content Analysis of Nez Perce Tribal Legends and Selected Anglo-American Children's Stories for Value-Attitude Factors of Achievement Motivation" by…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1977
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) authorizes a variety of demonstration projects to explore different approaches to help youth complete high school and enter the world of work. This report discusses the issues that must be considered in designing action program approaches and outlines the knowledge development…
Descriptors: Action Research, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Programs, Education Work Relationship
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New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Bilingual Education. – 1979
This 1977-78 report on Elementary Secondary Education Act, Title VII, programs in New York State presents information in the form of tables and listings and a map. The following information is included on the bilingual education programs: estimated number of pupils, amount awarded, years of service, and languages offered by region, project, city,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Anderson, Robert – 1978
A study was performed to determine (1) the characteristics of unassigned recipients in the Work Incentive (WIN) program; (2) what services are currently being offered to this group and what services they need to increase their employment potential; (3) the amount of time they spend in this status and the frequency of their movement in and out of…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential
Flanagan, W. Malcolm; Schoepke, JoAnn M. – 1978
Citing other studies, this paper provides a background overview regarding the design of a lifelong career development model for severely handicapped individuals which is now in progress at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the Educational Amendments of 1976…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Development, Career Education, College Role
Alabama State Univ. System, Montgomery. – 1977
Some of the bureaucratic forces that affect the University of Alabama are discussed. External forces include the federal and state governments, the statewide coordinating body for higher education, accrediting agencies, and the university system under which the institution operates. Other forces are at work internally that compound the…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Affirmative Action, Budgeting, Bureaucracy
National Commission on the International Year of the Child, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report to the President overviews the activities of the United States National Commission on the International Year of the Child (IYC), 1979, and makes recommendations for national policy. Part One consists of a brief report of organizing activities of federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations, synopses of local initiatives for…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Citizenship, Cultural Awareness, Economic Factors
Longanecker, David; And Others – 1980
The task of designing future postsecondary education policy in fiscal year 1981 is discussed in relation to two unique conditions. First, the federal role as a provider of student assistance was increased dramatically in 1978 by passage of the Middle Income Student Assistance Act, and the full costs of implementing MISAA are coming due. Second,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Aitken, Donald; And Others – 1980
The Jefferson County School District 509-J (Madras, Oregon), the Warm Springs Confederated Tribes, and selected community leaders cooperated in a 1979 study to determine the financial impact of the Warm Springs community on the district's budget and to provide reliable financial information for planning purposes. A task force gathered data dating…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Cooperation
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1980
The following award-winning dissertations in bilingual education are included here: (1) "The 1974 Bilingual Education Amendments: Revolution, Reaction, or Reform" by Susan Gilbert Schneider; (2) "(Memory Organization, Bilingualism, and Interlingual Interference: A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Distance and Semantic Judgment…
Descriptors: American Indians, Auditory Discrimination, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
These three articles describe three programs operating under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), a comprehensive endeavor to lower the high rate of joblessness among youth. The first article focuses on the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects--popularly called Entitlement--which is an experimental and intensive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged
ABT, CLARK C.; MILLER, PETER S. – 1967
A MODEL INTENDED TO PREDICT THE RELATIVE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS WITHIN THE SAME SCHOOL-COMMUNITY SETTING IS DEVELOPED. THE MODEL IS AN ATTEMPT TO AID IN DECISIONS CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS OF TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965. COSTS ARE ESTIMATED FROM BUDGET ALLOCATIONS.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Benefits, Compensatory Education, Computer Oriented Programs
CUTTER, DORIS – 1966
THIS WORKSHOP WAS ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE BAPTIST WORKERS WITH THE DEAF THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME BETTER ORIENTED TO THE PROGRAM OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SO THAT THEY CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN THE REHABILITATION PROCESS. AFTER A PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROCESS IS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Church Programs, Church Responsibility
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