In preparation for the scheduled expiration of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation at the end of fiscal year 1982, background information was gathered to analyze the effects of CETA training on participants' post-program earnings. An analysis was made of information gathered on persons over 24-years-old who entered a…

A report on the current status of accessibility to university education in Ontario has several major objectives: to review the social science literature on such concepts as equality of educational opportunity and accessibility, considering the social, political and intellectual climate of the times; to examine parliamentary minutes and reports of…

Three regions of Tasmania (the Huon Valley, North-East Tasmania, and the Derwent Valley) were studied between June 1978 and June 1980 to discover what happens to school leavers in rural country areas and how their options and opportunities were to be considered with regard to range of occupational choices perceived to be or actually available. A…

Major changes affecting New York City's homeless poor in the past 15 months are assessed in this follow-up study to a research project which a year earlier had examined the problems of homeless adults in the city and had made recommendations to deal with these problems. Data were collected through informal interviews, surveys, and observations.…

This guidebook is intended to aid adult basic education teachers in the selection of audiovisual resources designed to teach living skills to low-functioning adults. The first section describes effective use of audiovisuals, preparation of a lesson incorporating audiovisuals, and lesson plan uses of media. Two audiovisual evaluation forms are…

Eight pieces of federal legislation relating to job training are provided. These are (1) the Job Training Partnership Act, as amended; (2) the Wagner-Peyser Act, legislation to provide for the establishment of a national employment system, as amended; (3) the National Apprenticeship Act; (4) the Vocational Education Act of 1963, Title I, as…

Eight New Jersey State colleges which shared essentially the same goals and offered similar financial aid packages were studied in order to determine the relationship between persistence rates of disadvantaged students in opportunity programs and the role of faculty in such programs. Student data were provided by New Jersey's Equal Opportunity…

Divided into six sections, this book focuses on creative pupils and creative reading, special considerations when developing programs for gifted students, materials and resources, meeting the writing needs of gifted students, suggestions for meeting their unique needs, and future trends regarding the gifted. The titles of the articles and their…

A policy analysis examined existing school-to-work transition programs in order to identify and evaluate the arguments for a national initiative to provide school-to-work transition services to high school seniors who are poorly equipped to obtain and retain jobs after graduation. To gather data for the study, the researchers conducted a…

This Delphi analysis of the "Instructionally Effective School" (IES) was designed to measure the current state of the art and science of school-based teaching and learning for poor children, and to describe the policy implications of the developmental level for school people, districts, states, and the federal government. Teams of…

The results of a 1983 followup survey to assess the long-term impact of the federally-funded Special Services for Disadvantaged Students (SSDS) program are presented. Educationally or economically disadvantaged students who enrolled in the program during their freshman year, 1979-1980, were studied. Questionnaires investigated respondents'…

Information on the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) at private colleges and universities in New York is provided. HEOP provides supportive services and financial aid to state residents attending private institutions in the state. The objective is to meet the special needs of students from disadvantaged backgrounds through such…

An exploratory study was conducted to investigate the self-concept of 160 disadvantaged black fourth graders attending two elementary schools in East Cleveland, Ohio. Self-concept was studied in relation to children's levels of anxiety, their feelings about school and school subjects, their educational and vocational aspirations, teachers'…

Data on the status of Samoan students reveal that they suffer severe educational deprivation in many areas. This deprivation is obscured and often exacerbated by grouping data on Pacific Islanders with that on the comparatively more successful, more numerous, culturally very different and generally more urbanized Asian American groups. While early…

In order to ascertain the effect of open admissions by investigating the graduation rate of basic skills students, a follow-up study was conducted of the 1,728 students who entered Queensborough Community College in fall 1970 and who were assigned to remedial reading and/or writing. Of a total enrollment of 3,230, 24% or 774 students were…