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Direct linkDeBray, Elizabeth; Blankenship, Ann Elizabeth – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Congress's role in defining and promoting equality of educational opportunity has evolved over the past 55 years since "Brown v. Board of Education." Most recently, all three branches of the federal government have focused more on equality of educational opportunity for "individual" students rather than for protected classes.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Government Role, Federal Government, Federal State Relationship
Download full textPiche, Dianne M. – 1999
This report represents one component of a project to examine how recently or whether enacted federal education reforms, put into place through the reauthorization of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (Improving America's Schools Act of 1994), are being implemented in high poverty schools. The first part of the report…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedPlunkett, Virginia R. L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Describes the new directions, or paradigm shift, that schools must learn to deal with under the 1994 Improving America's Schools Act as subsumed under five headings: (1) standards; (2) focus on teaching and learning with an accelerated curriculum; (3) flexibility for local initiative; (4) links among schools, parents, and communities; and (5)…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Petro, Janice Rose – 1996
Chapter I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the largest federally-funded program designed to provide services to elementary and secondary students to meet the special needs of educationally deprived students who reside in areas with high concentrations of low-income families. The 1994-95 school year is the last year of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Sunderman, Gail L.; Mickelsen, Heidi – 1998
This study examined how recent federal, state, and district policies shape the design and implementation of schoolwide programs for Title I students in the Chicago Public Schools (Illinois). Four inner city elementary schools were selected for the study. Two had academic outcomes higher than expected, and the other two had lower academic outcomes…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Peer reviewedPlunkett, Virginia R. L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
As educators work to pull together the various components of the Improving America's Schools Act, they must not lose sight of its central purpose, increasing children's learning. Guidance and assistance for low-achieving students must accompany a mind-set of higher expectations for achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
PDF pending restorationRubenstein, Michael G.; Gayler, Keith S.; Haslam, M. Bruce – 1998
This report summarizes findings from surveys of Title I district administrators and private school representatives regarding the provision of Title I services to eligible students attending private schools. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA),…
Descriptors: Administrators, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Educationally Disadvantaged
California State Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, Sacramento. – 1996
The California Youth Authority, the state agency that serves youth offenders, has received federal grant funds to supplement state-funded education programs for educationally disadvantaged students since 1967. Since 1989-90, these funds have been provided through the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendment (ESEA), Chapter 1 of Title I. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Delinquency
Smith, Ralph; Griffith, Julia – 1998
Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended in 1994, provides federal funds to states to contribute to the improvement of elementary (including preschool) and secondary educational programs in both public and private schools. Title VI funds supplement or increase local funds, but may not be used to supplant them. The 1997-98…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Improvement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Curry, Janice; Washington, Wanda; Zyskowski, Gloria – 1997
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 is a compensatory education program that enables high-poverty schools to provide opportunities for children to meet state performance standards developed for all children. Title I Migrant, also federally funded, provides…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
