A 1983-84 survey of migrant directors was conducted to provide information regarding the PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence) Program and to solicit recommendations regarding the role of the program in the secondary education of migrant students. Survey questionnaires were received from migrant programs in California, Arizona, Oregon, Arkansas,…

An overview investigation of two U.S. Department of Education college construction loan programs was conducted by a House of Representatives' subcommittee. Both programs, the College Housing Loan Program (CHLP) and the Academic Facilities Loan Program (AFLP), were created by Congress in response to upsurges in college enrollments. CHLP provides…

The differential interest costs to rural governments associated with borrowing in the tax-exempt bond market is a function of the advantageous position of several large partially rural counties and the dominance of school district borrowing in rural communities, rather than a disadvantage of predominantly rural governments. This conclusion is the…

Prepared for joint hearings on the impact of the proposed budget cuts on programs affecting children, these background materials describe the main programs which serve children in five general areas. These areas are health services for mothers and children, child nutrition programs, aid to families with dependent children, day care and other child…

Weekend College at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis is described with attention to learning later in life. In the first 10 years, Weekend College has offered 325 courses. Students have come long distances, some more than 100 miles, to attend classes. The following advantages of Weekend College have been cited by students:…

Differences between black and white students' college performance were examined, along with the effects of institutional characteristics and relationships with faculty. A sample of 2,218 black and 1,876 white students from 30 universities in 10 southern and southern border states were studied. The faculty sample consisted of 280 black and 426…

Adults learn from many sources, such as volunteer work, community services, homemaking, jobs, and other activities, and they increasingly want this learning to be recognized so that they can reenter the job market, get a promotion, or return to college. Therefore, scientific methods have been developed to help adults document their experiential…

As part of the Stanford Curriculum Study, information is provided on the university's approach to monitoring undergraduate education through research into student academic records. Trends in bachelor's degrees granted in the various departments from 1960-1961 to 1981-1982 at Stanford are charted and compared to national trends. Course enrollments…

The pamphlet offers unit-by-unit outlines for a high school course in consumer economics. The 20 objectives of the course stress ability to: assess the proper use of human and material resources, understand the consumer's role in the market system, distinguish the difference between needs and wants, recognize the efficacy of interacting with…

Supporting performance objective 40 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on posting to the cash record book from cash proof forms are included in this packet, which is one of a series. The student materials include five cash sales reports…

Supporting performance objective 33 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on maintaining subsidiary ledgers are included in this packet, which is one of a series. The student materials include source documents of ten business transactions,…

Supporting performance objective 34 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on posting (transferring) entries from journals to ledgers are included in this packet, which is one of a set. The student materials include a cash receipts journal…

Written to provide business executives with examples of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs that successfully prepare people to be skilled workers, this guide also describes the financial incentives for hiring unemployed and economically disadvantaged persons. In an overview of CETA and Title VII programs, private industry…

Chachoengsao Province and Lampang Province were selected in 1976 as sites for an "action survey" to identify appropriate program areas for rural women so that governmental and voluntary agencies could be assisted in planning. During December 994 families and 1,272 women (ranging from 15-70 years old) were surveyed. Interviews were…

The availability of evening and weekend baccalaureate degree credit courses and factors that discourage institutions from introducing or expanding such courses were investigated through a fast response survey that was sent to a national sample of universities and other four-year colleges. Among the findings are the following: almost three-fourths…