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Sung, Youngji Y.; Chang, Mido – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
This paper examines the long-term effect of enrollment in center- or school-based care programs on the academic performance of language minority students in the USA. The study applies a longitudinal multilevel analysis to a nationally representative database, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K). Of particular interest are the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Academic Achievement, Kindergarten, Minority Groups
Claus, Richard N.; Girrbach, Charmaine J. – 1982
The long-term sustained impact of the Saginaw School District Chapter I Supplemental Teacher Participation (STP) program on third grade students during the 1979-80 school year was examined. A total of 256 students were classified into one of four categories: 1 year, 2 year continuous, 3 year continuous, and 2 year interrupted. Two different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Grade 3
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Orland, Martin E.; Apling, Richard – Journal of Education Finance, 1986
Explores the impact of budget changes on the intensity of program services received by students in federal compensatory education programs under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (1981). Results show that moderate budget cuts translated into service intensity declines, implying that Gramm-Rudman impacts could be worse.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
The reauthorization of the Follow Through Program (FT), a program designed to reinforce gains made by low income children in preschool, is the subject of this hearing report. Testimony includes a rationale for reauthorizing the program; information and comments concerning the accomplishments and future prospects of FT; a brief historical…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Hearings, Intervention
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Cooke, Charles M. – Education and Urban Society, 1982
Reviews the background, intent, and provisions of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA), a law designed to simplify and consolidate 30 Federal elementary and secondary education assistance programs. Asserts that significant deregulation will not occur under ECIA, and that the Act will create as many problems as it solves. (GC)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
This document reviews the impact of the Aguilar v. Felton Supreme Court decision requiring that Chapter 1 compensatory education services must not be delivered to students in private sectarian schools. The focus is on how these services have been implemented in such schools. Fifteen school districts were surveyed for demographic data, comments…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Cooley, William W. – 1986
The papers presented at this conference review current research on effective educational practices for low-achieving students and identify those that might be applied to programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. A function assumed by several conference participants was to act as reactor to papers…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education
Moore, Donald R. – 1986
The papers presented at this conference review current research on effective educational practices for low-achieving students and identify those that might be applied to programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. This reaction report focuses on the relationship between compensatory education and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Compensatory Education, Coordination
McCann, Richard A. – 1986
This report reacting to three papers presented at the conference on compensatory education with special reference to Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 focuses on a series of topics pertaining to the relationship between compensatory education and regular education. The report begins by summarizing the conclusions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Coordination, Disadvantaged
Wallace, Sherry; And Others – 1984
This report contains administrative summaries for program evaluations of these 11 1983-84 Chapter I, Chapter II, and state compensatory education programs in the Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. The programs evaluated are the Elementary Resource Teacher/Aide Program; the Chapter I Parochial Reading and Mathematics Program; the…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correctional Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Compensatory Education. – 1983
This document's purpose is to assist local educational agencies in providing compensatory education services to students in private schools and to provide clarification about compensatory education program responsibilities as mandated by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981. The first of the document's two major parts…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1983
This is the report of a hearing on the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981. ECIA established Chapter 1 and 2 block grants which transferred almost total authority for the largest elementary and secondary school Federal assistance programs in the United States to State and local education agencies. These programs had formerly…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Civil Rights, Compensatory Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Gray, Peter J.; Smith, Nick L. – 1983
Over 30 professional evaluators in five state departments of education and 5 large school districts were interviewed periodically over a 10-month period in 1982 to find out how the Education Consolidation Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) was affecting program evaluation activities. Preliminary findings on the impact of ECIA Chapter 1 (compensatory…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Decentralization, Educational Change
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate. – 1987
This document provides the text of Senate bill S. 373, reauthorizing the program of finance assistance to meet the special education needs of children of low-income families, children of migrant parents, Indian children, and handicapped, neglected, and delinquent children. Allocations and program requirements for the following types of programs…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, American Indians, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Hood, Paul D.; And Others – 1982
This report explores the effects of federal, state, and local fiscal cutbacks and of federal and state categorical program consolidation and deregulation on the capacity of state, intermediate, and local education agencies to provide instructional improvement services to schools in California, Nevada, and Utah. The planning process and impact of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education