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Effectiveness of Compensatory Education.
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Cooley, William W. – Educational Leadership, 1981
School districts should be allowed to dispense with labeling children as disadvantaged and to use the Title I support they receive in schools that have a high proportion of children from poor families. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Synthesis of Research on Compensatory and Remedial Education.
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Anderson, Lorin W.; Pellicer, Leonard O. – Educational Leadership, 1990
Current Chapter 1 remedial and compensatory education programs may not be worth the substantial funds being poured into them. To address shortcomings, such programs should be upgraded, reconceptualized as educational (not funding) programs, and fully integrated into the total school program. Includes 14 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
That Controversial Follow Through Evaluation: An Interview with Richard Anderson
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Brandt, Ronald S. – Educational Leadership, 1978
The main implication seems to be that the national government should take care. If it wants to solve social problems at the level of the individual, the Follow Through experience offers no encouragement that it can be done through federally directed curricular reform. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education
In Defense of Compensatory Education.
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Dallam, William M.; Deimel, Gilbert – Educational Leadership, 1981
Two rebuttals to William Cooley's criticisms of Title I programs in the January 1981 issue of "Educational Leadership" claim he incorrectly interpreted the data on the effectiveness of the programs. Cooley responds. (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
No Simple Answer: Critique of the "Follow Through" Evaluation
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House, Ernest R.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1978
Examines the Abt Associates, Inc. findings on the effectiveness of Project Follow Through and disputes the report's conclusion that so-called "basic skills" approaches to the schooling of poor children are superior to other methods. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education