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DRINAN, ROBERT F.; AND OTHERS – 1965
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEGROES IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE EXAMINED. RACIAL CONCENTRATIONS IN BOSTON'S SCHOOLS VARY WIDELY ACCORDING TO THE GRADE LEVEL OF THE PUPIL. THE VAST MAJORITY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS ATTENDED SCHOOLS THAT WERE MORE THAN 90 PERCENT WHITE IN ENROLLMENT. ONE POLICY OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE REGARDING…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Opportunities, Human Relations, Open Enrollment
Hyett, Barbara Helfgott, Ed. – 1979
The poems in this anthology were written by elementary school students in the Oliver Hazard Perry School in South Boston, Massachusetts. The students were participants in a Federally funded special arts project, TryArts, which sought to stimulate self-expression by exposing children to professional artists and performers and by involving them in…
Descriptors: Children, Compensatory Education, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Hyett, Barbara Helfgott, Ed. – 1980
The poems in this anthology were written by elementary school students in the James A. Garfield School in Boston, Massachusetts. The students were participants in a Federally funded special arts project, TryArts, which sought to stimulate self-expression by exposing children to professional artists and performers and by involving them in the…
Descriptors: Children, Compensatory Education, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Alonso, Ricardo, Ed. – 1978
The poems in this anthology were written by students in the Josiah Quincy Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts. The students were participants in a Federally funded special arts project, TryArts, which sought to stimulate self-expression by exposing children to professional artists and performers and by involving them in the creative…
Descriptors: Children, Compensatory Education, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1982
This interim process evaluation report focuses on the impact of funding cuts on Boston's 1981-82 Title I program, possible areas for further cutbacks, and several policy issues. Results of questionnaires completed by administrators, teachers, and paraprofessionals as well as interviews and classroom observations were all used in the evaluation.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1983
Boston's Chapter I English as a Second Language (ESL) Program is intended to provide intensified oral/aural instruction in English to students with limited-English-speaking ability who are lagging behind in regular bilingual classes. An ultimate goal of the program is to prepare students from a variety of linguistic backgrounds (including Spanish,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups
Baltzell, D. Catherine, Ed.; Ames, Richard, Ed. – 1979
This volume attempts to identify and describe factors that supported the unexpected expansion of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I services in thirteen participating local education agencies (LEAs). It also describes changes in program delivery patterns that may not have supported expansion of services but may have accompanied…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Educational Planning and Research, Boston, MA. – 1978
Boston's Title I High School Reading Program (1977-78) was intended to meet the needs of educationally deprived children from low-income families. Although few test scores were available, it appeared that 50 percent of the program students achieved the designated one-year gain in reading comprehension. Only 4 percent of the approximately 425…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, High Schools
Public Affairs Research Inst., Wellesley, MA. – 1981
This report evaluates Boston's Title I Elementary Reading and Mathematics School Programs for 1980-81. Ninety-eight percent of students enrolled in the programs received Title I instruction five days a week. Instruction was highly individualized, and teachers and aides used individualized daily planning. On the average, students attended school on…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1983
The major focus of this interim report on Boston's Chapter I Elementary Reading Program (1982-83) is a comparison of the traditional pull-out model with a pilot model in which the Chapter I teacher works in the student's regular classroom and uses the same basal reader as the classroom teacher. The pilot project was not well received, with 73…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Pilot Projects
Vazquez-Nuttall Associates, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1982
Boston's 1981-82 Title I program, consisting of supplementary reading instruction in the elementary grades and reading and language arts at the middle and secondary levels, is evaluated in this report. In the elementary grades, the average pre-post test gain was well above the program success criterion. On the average, a greater percentage of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Heuristics, Inc., Dedham, MA. – 1979
In this evaluation report for Boston's Title I Elementary Enrichment Program (reading, math, and language arts) for 1978-79, reading students in Grades 2 through 6 are shown as equalling or exceeding the specified criterion for success. Grade 1 students finished the year an average of two months below grade level. In math, gains at all grade…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Educational Planning and Research, Boston, MA. – 1982
Boston's Title I English as a Second Language (ESL) program (1981-82) was designed to provide supplementary ESL instruction to educationally deprived children in elementary and middle schools. The program's major objectives were to develop aural-oral English language skills in limited-English-speaking children, and to help them adjust socially and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Compensatory Education, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBoston 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
Heuristics, Inc., Dedham, MA. – 1977
This report presents the summative evaluation of four components of Boston's Title I project (1976-77). Areas in which three of the programs, the Elementary Reading and Math Program, the Middle School Reading Program, and the National Institute of Education (NIE) Demonstration Project (reading), were particularly successful were administration and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
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