Congress has raised concerns about difficulties rural school districts face implementing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA). This report describes: key challenges rural states and districts face; strategies rural districts have developed; expenditures and resources related to rural districts? compliance; and guidance and assistance from the…

For over a half-century, discussions of educational barriers have figured prominently on the national agenda. In the 1940's, under the leadership of President Harry Truman, the Commission on Higher Education articulated the nation's commitment to "eliminate the barriers of equality of educational opportunity." Nearly two decades later,…

Reported were data on the classroom functioning of 602 high school students attending eight different urban ghetto schools, including assessments of reasoning ability, verbal productivity, original and independent thinking, anxiety, rapport, obstreperousness, negativism, withdrawal, and expression of inability to cope with achievement demands.…

This essay proposes an historical overview of educational experience in the United States. (Author/RK)

Discusses a study conducted to determine and describe the status of, and need for, family planning information and communications in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program as perceived by program aides. (SB)

Findings are discussed in the light of social-learning theory. (Authors)

Describes the failure to raise adequate school revenues through equitable means and the inability to allocate resources in an effective and equitable manner. (Author)

A group of independent schools developed summer remedial and enrichment programs for disadvantaged urban youth which were conducted with the cooperation of the communities, public schools and State Department of Education. Funding was through Title I and Title III, poverty agencies, and individual contributions. (JB)

Describes a heavy construction equipment operation and maintenance program conducted in the Appalachia region of eastern Kentucky. (GB)

An unusual poverty immersion program that teaches what can't be taught in a classroom. (Editor)

Taken from a paper delivered at the Durham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in September 1970 proposing a new selection procedure, training program, employment, and research projects for university graduate science students. (IR)

An analysis of the selection and training processes and methods used to integrate the nonprofessional into the agency structure shows that such methods generally result in a loss of the valued skills. The author discusses methods for maintaining these skills and concludes that compartmentalization is a viable short run approach. (Author)

In support of a balanced Federal aid program. (IR)