This report, required by section 233 of the Manpower Development and Training Act, opens with the chapter, "Adapting to Economic Change," which comments on major program changes during 1967, all of which relate to increasing the proportion of hard-core unemployed in the program. The chapters, "The Range of Training," and…

Case histories evaluate the effectiveness of recent and current retraining programs for unemployed workers under Federal, state, municipal, and union-management auspices, judging them by their success in placing workers in useful employment in distressed economic areas. Data on various aspects of retraining programs under a wide variety of…

A directory of federal and state programs to help the handicapped find employment, this booklet also describes programs for the able-bodied. Contents included are (1) programs for people who need additional education, rehabilitation, or training before they can get a job, (2) programs for those who need a job and for communities that need to…

THIS STUDY EXAMINED THE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT EX-TRAINEES, THE SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGES THAT OCCURRED AFTER TRAINING, THE LONG- AND SHORT-RANGE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SERVICES RECEIVED UNDER THE MDTA PROGRAM, AND HOW THESE MAY BE IMPROVED. FOR APPROXIMATELY 500 PERSONS WHO COMPLETED AN MDTA…

An analysis of questionnaires completed by 413 recipients of U.S. Office of Education graduate fellowships in mental retardation under the provisions of Public Law 85-926 was conducted. Recipients of university and state fellowship awards were included in the sample. The findings indicated that 95% of the fellowship recipients had had prior…

The report reviews multicultural/bilingual programs for which funds have been allocated by the National Institute of Education (NIE) for fiscal year 1977-78. There are two major sections to the report. The first section discusses the history, legislation, and development of bilingual education programs in response to federal requirements. Mandates…

This booklet relates the history of the Career Opportunities Program (COP). The objective of the COP was to provide for indigenous community residents working as paraprofessional teacher aides in the nation's low-income urban and rural schools the opportunity to advance within the education profession and, ultimately, to improve the learning of…

This booklet reports on the 1975 National Conference on Parent/Early Childhood Education (P/ECE) which addressed the question of parents' influence on the cognitive and social-emotional development of their children during the preschool years, focusing particularly on ways that the importance of learning in the home can be stressed to parents and…

The main objective of this study was the development of an evaluation and reporting system that would provide information considered to be meaningful to those involved at the local, district, state, and federal levels. Subobjectives are to determine the amount and type of evaluation information needed at each level to assess the ability and…

The document studies the availability and use of manpower data in vocational education and delineates the underlying factors influencing data usage. Information was collected from 10 States selected from 10 Federal regions. Descriptions of the findings are presented for each agency according to the following categories: (1) State vocational…

Ten consultants were employed by the National Institute of Education (NIE) to examine the state of educational research and development (R&D) with specific reference to the regional laboratories and the R&D centers established in the late 1960's. By confering with NIE officials, surveying the directors of regional laboratories and R&D…

The United States Office of Education (USOE) policy in funding purposive television programing for children was investigated. Information and policy recommendations were gathered from existing sources in the general literature, USOE file materials, 10 single-topic commissioned papers, a 10-member advisory board, a Federal advisory group, and…

The stated purpose of this study is to determine what pupil, teacher, and school district characteristics relate to young children's expressed attitudes as measured by the School Sentiment Index and to determine the usefulness of this measurement instrument. The subjects of the study were kindergarten through grade two children who received…

This evaluation focuses on a comprehensive arts and reading enrichment program for socially and economically deprived inner city adolescents who are performing two years below grade level in reading and/or mathematics. One hundred children participated in this six month program considered to be strongly oriented toward reading improvement. A…

This Head Start evaluation system was developed at the request of the California Head Start Directors Association. There was a broad-based input in all phases of its development, from Head Start directors, Head Start staff from all components, and Head Start parents. It was extensively field tested in one of the major California Head Start…