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Download full textNGA Center for Best Practices, 2010
Expanded learning opportunities (ELOs) support state education goals by providing safe, structured learning environments for students outside the regular school day. ELOs include after-school and summer learning programs, as well as before-school, evening, and weekend programs. Although research demonstrates that high-quality expanded learning…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Governance, Educational Change, Grants
Cribb, Herschel – Opportunity, 1971
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Kaufman, Maurice; And Others – 1980
This report presents an evaluation of the Medford, Massachusetts, Language, Education, Acceleration Program (Project LEAP) for the 1979-80 school year. The first section presents findings of evaluator observations during program implementation. The second section reports findings from quantitative measures: standardized tests,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Curriculum Services. – 1978
Of the 345 Title I projects in operation in Massachusetts during 1975 58% were conducted during the school year, and 42% were conducted during the summer term. During this year, 77,706 children attending both public and nonpublic schools participated in Title I programs. Of the 319 projects responding, 98% indicated that they had an active Title I…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Mathematics
Latham, Eleanor E. – 1980
This evaluation research report describes a program originally implemented to meet the needs of English dominant Hispanic students in an urban junior high school. The report combines qualitative and quantitative data in order to provide an understanding of the relationship of program goals, implementation procedures, and effects and delineates…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Hispanic Americans, Individualized Instruction
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. School of Education. – 1972
This report was prepared to provide information on the operation and management of state-funded educational programs for the disadvantaged in Massachusetts institutions of high education. Schools surveyed included ten of the 13 community colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Detailed information was collected from each school on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Meyer, John K. – 1978
Basic features of a method of connection-making training, developed by Gordon and Poze, can provide a compact method of connection-making in varying mental age levels. Based on the premise that simple connection-making is innate and available to stimulation in children of the primary and kindergarten grade ages, this method was used on a target…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Heuristics, Inc., Dedham, MA. – 1973
This report presents the evaluation of the Fall River Middle School Research and Development Center, a project funded under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Act as a model demonstration bilingual program, beginning in 1972-1973. The Title VII bilingual program operated at the fifth grade level in three schools with two bilingual program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
Boston Public Schools, MA. – 1966
SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR CULTURALLY DIFFERENT AND DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE DISCUSSED. SPECIAL EMPHASIS IS GIVEN TO THE BASAL READING PROGRAM IN WHICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS, HIGH MOBILITY, AND LOW ASPIRATIONS HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO READ AT OR ABOVE GRADE LEVELS. IN THIS PROGRAM CHILDREN…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Basic Reading, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Jordan, David C.; Spiess, Kathryn Hecht – 1970
The general objective of this study is to assist in the improvement of compensatory education programs in Massachusetts through modifications of current programs based on evaluations specific enough to permit the formulation of concrete recommendations for improvement. A 10 percent sample of projects was chosen for study as theoretically…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Colon, Javier; And Others – 1990
This paper aims to analyze entitlements designed to guarantee equal educational opportunity rights for Latino students in Massachusetts public schools, review policy debates on these issues, and recommend areas for research. The primary interest is threefold: (1) entitlements could be expanded; (2) to show where their limits lie; and (3) to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Opportunities
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Curriculum Services. – 1978
This statistical report reviews Massachusetts Title I projects in terms of: the population served; participating schools; amounts of staff training, community and parental involvement; and effects of the programs on educational achievement. The format is largely tables and figures interspersed with textual presentation of the same data. Title I…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Kaufman, Maurice; And Others – 1977
An Elementary and Secondary Education Title I program for the 1976-77 school year was conducted in public and parochial schools in Medford, Massachusetts. The program provided reading and language arts instruction, physical education, speech therapy, and counseling. Children in grades K-6 who scored below the fortieth percentile on school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Kaufman, Maurice; And Others – 1978
This report describes the implementation of the Language Education Acceleration Program (LEAP) of Medford, Massachusetts. The program is evaluated. The administration of the program is discussed. Pre and post test results are given and analyzed for the Metropolitan Achievement Test, Stanford Early School Achievement Test, phonics, structural…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills
Heuristics, Inc., Dedham, MA. – 1973
This report presents the evaluation of the Worcester Operation Reading Base (ORB) Program which operated during 1971-1972, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. The ORB Program was designed to provide small group remedial reading instruction to students in the target area schools of Worcester. Evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
