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Rivlin, Alice M., Ed.; Timpane, P. Michael, Ed. – 1975
This book consists of nine articles prepared for a 1973 conference that considered the lessons of two federally funded compensatory education projects of the late 1960s, the Follow Through program and the Head Start Planned Variation program. Both were planned variation programs, under which local communities were invited to design, implement, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Gramlich, Edward M.; Koshel, Patricia P. – 1975
This book examines in detail the experiment in educational performance contracting conducted by the United States Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) during the 1970-71 school year. Major objectives of the OEO project were to find out whether a private educational firm could teach educationally disadvantaged children to read and write better than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educationally Disadvantaged
Direct linkTowne, Lisa, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2004
The Center for Education of the National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a series of activities to address issues related to the quality of scientific education research. In 2002, the NRC released "Scientific Research in Education" (National Research Council, 2002), a report designed to articulate the nature of scientific education research…
Descriptors: Workshops, Educational Research, Peer Evaluation, Federal Programs
