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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
Download full textCrain, Robert L.; York, Robert L. – 1974
The Evaluation of the Emergency School Assistance Program (ESAP) for the 1971-72 school year is the first application of full-blown experimental design with randomized experimental and control cases in a federal evaluation of a large scale program. It is also one of the very few evaluations which has shown that federal programs can raise tested…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Educational Research
Mahan, Thomas W. – 1967
Under Project Concern minority group children in Hartford, Conn., were bused to 33 elementary schools in five suburban school systems. The goals were to change the de facto desegregation of the inner city schools, to design an effective, supportive educational intervention program to arrest and remediate school failure, and to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Attendance, Bus Transportation
