This manual is designed for social service agencies, educational institutions, and other organizations who want to strengthen their programming for economicaly disadvantaged teenage girls and young women. It provides materials for the development and implementation of NEW PASS, a unique career awareness program that uses nontraditional employment…

Environmental and institutional barriers faced by individuals and families living in economically distressed areas prevent them from benefiting from education to the same degree as other populations. A high level of economic and social distress is associated with high dropout rates. To help institutions to more effectively address the needs of…

The requirements for vocational assessment of special needs students in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act are not well served by the traditional kinds of vocational assessment often practiced. Instead, vocational assessment for the purposes of responding to the mandate of the Act should be defined within the context of answering service…

This newsletter focuses on the educational rights of the homeless. It contains the following articles: (1) Homelessness: A Barrier to Education for Thousands of Children; (2) New Federal Act Protects Education Rights of Homeless Children; (3) Suggested Questions Regarding the Education Provisions of the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and (4)…

School improvements have been implemented in 27 schools in Columbus, Ohio, emphasizing the characteristics of effective schools. These characteristics include: (1) a sense of mission; (2) strong instructional leadership; (3) high expectations for students as well as school staff; (4) frequent monitoring of student progress; (5) a positive learning…

Data used for this study were provided by classroom teachers concerning second grade students in an urban school system composed primarily of minority and economically disadvantaged children. Measures of children's internal and external feedback propensities were developed. The propensities' relationship to other variables of interest was…

Papers on school and children's libraries which were presented at the 1982 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Learning to Learn in the Street," a description by B. Lang (France) of "street libraries" and other institutions designed to introduce economically disadvantaged children to…

At a time of high unemployment and increasingly constrained public resources, more and more attention is being focused on how to further the private sector's involvement in expanding opportunities for individuals, especially the hard-to-employ, to obtain long-term productive employment. Although at least 12 pieces of federal legislation that…

This handbook provides Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors and youth program planners with information on planning and implementing youth participation in their employment programs. (Youth participation means projects in which young people assume responsibility for work that meets genuine community needs.) Section 1…

The purpose of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) is to establish job training and employment assistance programs for economically disadvantaged youth and hard-to-hire, unskilled adults. Like the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), JTPA works through a locally based program delivery system. Unlike CETA, JTPA calls for equal…

This conference report identifies research needs in evaluating and documenting large scale school improvement efforts to serve disadvantaged populations. Summaries of the conference presentations are provided, grouped into three sections. The first section examines the basis of conducting evaluations. Several basic assumptions are challenged,…

The purpose of the project being reported on here was to develop a "Directory of Microcomputer Software for Special Needs Students." The bulk of this final report consists of a copy of the actual directory. Based on information gathered from commercial software manufacturers and distributors, the directory lists microcomputer software for…

This longitudinal study investigated the loss of Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1 services and its effect on student achievement in Austin Independent School District schools desegregated by court order through school pairing or revision of school attendance boundaries. The achievement of two groups of kindergarten through third…

The Science Assessment and Research Project conducted an assessment of the opportunities for computer learning in the nation's schools. As part of this study, 15,847 junior and senior high school students (13 and 17 years old) responded to a questionnaire regarding computers and computer usage. This is a summary of the findings: Opportunities for…