This study investigates how the college readiness of participants in a compensatory program designed to facilitate interest in science and engineering was determined. Archival data were used to qualitatively analyze the performance reports of 205 student participants during the compensatory program's first 5 years. Findings indicate participants…

This article reviews educational initiatives of state and federal government that were designed to remedy the effects of racial segregation on Black public school students in the United States after the famous "Brown v. Board of Education" decisions. Several policy and legal initiatives are reviewed, including school desegregation,…

The various data analyses comparing different approaches to teaching the disadvantaged show that the Direct Instruction model was more effective in terms of basic academic goals and affective outcomes. (Author/AM)

Argues that the failures of compensatory education are due to an unwillingness to acknowledge the depth of deprivation of the child and an inability to focus upon him the massive resources necessary to compensate for deprivation. Offers a new concept which wi ll depict the need for compensatory programs. (DM)

The New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program, which operates in 52 school districts, is designed to reduce potential educational deficits of economically disadvantaged children. This article reports on the program's effects on cognitive functioning of children in their kindergarten years and discusses implications for educational…

Addresses the distribution and composition of educational investment among social classes, discussing topics related to equality of educational opportunity, and detailing a plan for financing equal educational opportunity. (JM)

Argues that special and segregating programs for students having difficulty learning focus on within-child deficits, keep students apart from their peers, and lower teacher expectations. The authors make a case for urban schools and teacher preparation that enhance skills in dealing with diverse learners and encourage inclusion. (GR)

Argues that economic methodologies can be of great assistance in framing the problem of how much more should be spent on the educationally disadvantaged student than on his more advantaged counterpart, and in contributing to studies that address it; and outlines a simple macro-economic model of society which incorporates educational expenditure as…

Focuses on alternate ways of helping the disadvantaged, ways of determining the optimal level, if any, of compensatory education expenditures, the meaning of "equality of opportunity", the use of cost ratios, egalitarianism as a social goal, the problem of when to compensate the disadvantaged child educationally, and the need to identify and…

A study was conducted to examine how a broad combination of federal education programs (in operation in 1981-82) affected states' administration of federal and related state programs. Results did not confirm assessments of federal education programs as administratively burdensome and excessively restrictive at the state level. (Author/GC)