The new director of the Right to Read Program answers criticisms of that program by its former director. (JF)

The history of Federal sponsorship of preschool educational programs. (Author)

Four Spanish-speaking Americans discuss manpower programs and the needs of their people. (Editor)

Northwest Indians turn to aquaculture as source of jobs and steady income. (Editor)

Describes three educational programs operating on the Navaho reservation: the Rough Rock Elementary School, the Ramah High School, and the Navaho Community College. (JM)

Describes how an agency in East Washington remained in operation by abandoning the neighborhood-center concept for the issue-group approach to poverty. (DM)

A. W. Smith gave testimony in answer to questions posed by Representative Henry S. Reuss, Chairman of the House Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee. Hearings were held in February 1970 to elicit views on programs necessary to attain a healthy environment. (Author/SD)

U.S. needs a program of national health insurance to include the entire range of services required to maintain every citizen's personal health. (IR)

Paper presented at the Education and Information Science Symposium," Sponsored by the Ohio Chapters of the American Society for Information Science in cooperation with The Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, June 23 and 24, 1969. (MF)

Describes policy decisions that have acted upon the 1982 Fiscal Year budget and funding priorities of the Administration on Aging's Gerontology Career Preparation Program, and projects the probable consequences of the policy option now being weighed to eliminate all future funding. (University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, TX 78712). (NJ)

The ideal organizational configuration for a federal evaluation contractor and the degree to which firms so configured will be able to meet the federal government's informational needs are offered. (Author)

Federal education policy should: (1) define objectives and targets of its activities more precisely; (2) define minimal conditions of organizational performance; (3) distinguish among sources of variability in state-local program implementation; and (4) specify the relationship between strategy and structure. (CJ)

The author responds to an article (EC 151 569) questioning the federal definition of learning disabilities (LD) because federally funded child service demonstration centers did not adhere to it. He asserts that this argument is faulty and that LD can be defined. (CL)