A summary description and evaluation of Project Uplift, a compensatory reading program for first and second graders in the Kansas City District's Title I schools. (JM)

The school-based planning process often exacerbates efforts to improve instructional effectiveness. The importance of addressing strategic instructional issues in planning is emphasized. To ensure more positive outcomes, six important guidelines are offered. (Author/JS)

To effectively improve minority student achievement in metropolitan schools, educational alternatives based on staff development, administrative leadership, increased resources, reorganized school practices, community resources, and new educational environments must be developed. (Author/DW)

This report examines the Chicago Mastery Learning Reading Program (CMLRP) and other schoolwide approaches at selected schools in Los Angeles (California), New York City, and Chicago (Illinois) to identify factors in augmented achievement gains. This extended summary and conclusion seeks to provide information which can improve the general…

The authors review compensatory education programs, summarize studies of their effectiveness, and conclude that such programs can be effective--although they must be accompanied by increased opportunity in the society as a whole. (JM)

In recent years a number of new institutions; i.e., "street academies", have been established to educate students who have dropped out or are prone to drop out of inner city secondary schools. There is reason to believe that many of these schools have been successful with youths who had not succeeded before, and therefore that lessons might be…

The Model Cities Educational Priorities and Program Development (EPPD) Project involved two elementary schools located within the Model Cities areas of Kansas City, Missouri, during the 1972-3 school year. The stated objectives of the program were as follows: (1) Identify the educational needs of inner city children in America in the 1970s, with…

This exploratory study examined the relationship between reading performance scores and three measures of home environment among kindergarten students of differing racial and ethnic background. It also determined whether there was evidence that participation in a Follow Through Program had been effective in overcoming educational disadvantages…