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Reaching Rural Students with Resources and Enrichment-Focused Learning in the Summer Months
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O'Connell, Kathrina M. – Rural Educator, 2023
This promising practice describes the summer programming transformation at a rural, Title I school. After eliminating barriers to education and remediation overtones, the school now provides free transportation, meals, and books for all participants and engages them in research-based, enrichment-focused literacy learning. The program's first year…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Youth, Summer Programs, Educational Change
Follow the Money or Follow the Mentors? The Impact of Mentoring on Absenteeism and Achievement in High Poverty Schools
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May, Judy Jackson; Conway, Diane M.; Guice, Andrea D. – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2021
Since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, over 300 billion dollars have been funneled to schools through Title I funds. Qualifying school districts receive Title I funds to address disparities between disadvantaged students' academic achievement and their less impoverished peers. Substantial research has focused on…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Mentors, Attendance Patterns, Academic Achievement
The Relationship of Title I Student Achievement to Program and School Attendance.
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Ziomek, Robert L.; Schoenenberger, William J. – Elementary School Journal, 1983
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Elementary Education
Title I Achievement as Related to Program and School Attendance. Revised.
Ziomek, Robert L.; Schoenenberger, William J. – 1980
School district personnel responsible for administering Title I programs recognize that for a student to take advantage of remediation the individual must be present for instruction. Many evaluations of Title I programs have attributed increased achievement to increased attendance, without explicitly investigating this assumed relationship. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Implications of "Follow-the-Child" Proposals. National Institute of Education Compensatory Education Study.
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Basic Skills Group. Teaching Div. – 1977
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is designed to provide special services to educationally disadvantaged children attending schools located within attendance areas with high concentrations of low income children. If attendance areas are changed, the concentrations of low income children within attendance areas also…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Change Agents, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged