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Peer reviewedRoybal, Edward R. – American Psychologist, 1984
This article is concerned with the aged and looks briefly at the history of federal involvement in mental health care, discusses current trends, and examines the future of mental health care in the United States. (CMG)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Block Grants, Federal Government, Government Role
Download full textMerkel-Keller, Claudia – 1982
The future role and importance of educational evaluation are analyzed in terms of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act (1981), a block grant whose provisions minimize planning, reporting, evaluation and accountability requirements to ensure that national goals are met. The background in federal and state evaluation programs is…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Murray, Judith A. – 1993
The ways in which governments in different countries determine the amounts of money to be provided to individual institutions of higher education institutions vary considerably. This paper explains how government funds are allocated in Canada, focusing on grants in support of core operations to universities located in Nova Scotia. It examines how…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support
PDF pending restorationBarnhart, Jo Anne B. – 1992
One of the goals of the America 2000 initiative is that by the year 2000, all children in the United States will start school ready to learn. Child care will play a major role in the achievement of this goal due to the fact that nearly half of all preschool children spend a significant portion of time in child care settings outside of the home.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Block Grants, Community Information Services, Day Care
Peer reviewedLevin, Henry M. – Harvard Educational Review, 1982
Four types of federal grants used to address national concerns of educational equity are examined and evaluated: general aid to education, categorical grants for educational equity, block grants for specific groups of equity programs, and matching grants for educational equity. (CT)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Townsel, Alvin H. – 1982
It is too soon to know the effect of federal block grants on education, but one can speculate on their implications for fiscal management by looking at past block grant programs, examining the statutory provisions, and analyzing data available on states and cities. Past federal block grants have involved health, crime, community development,…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Beamer, Rufus W. – 1983
State advisory councils have been established by Congress to serve as an instrument for developing systematic, effective communications linkages between the world of education and the world of work. They are also intended to serve as advisors and independent evaluators of vocational education programs and to report their findings to appropriate…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Block Grants, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
