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Watkins, Lucy R. – Equity and Choice, 1991
Chapter 1 legislation provides additional resources to schools with a certain percentage of low-income students to help ensure that all children learn. Calls on parents and legal service advocates to take an active role in ensuring accountability for Chapter 1's application in schools, and provides questions to help parents better understand and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advocacy, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Tatel, David – Equity and Choice, 1988
State governments are losing more desegregation cases. The basis of liability change from local agencies to state ones during the 1970s and 80s. The consequences are that some states continue to deny responsibility and others, more wisely, acknowledge responsibility and develop programs to desegregate as a matter of state policy. (VM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Equity and Choice, 1985
Brief statements and references are provided on resegregation resulting from: (1) allocation of students to separate classrooms in elementary school according to ability; (2) within-classroom ability grouping; (3) tracking in high school; and (4) disciplinary policies and student suspensions. Further references on resegregation are also provided.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Discipline Policy
Dolan, Lawrence J.; Haxby, Barbara – Equity and Choice, 1991
One goal of the Success for All program is that each student in high poverty schools will achieve at or near grade level by the third grade. Describes and gives the rationale behind the program's Family Support Team component, which is concerned with attendance intervention, home visits, parent involvement, and integration with community agencies.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Early Intervention, Educationally Disadvantaged
Freedberg, Louis – Equity and Choice, 1989
An elementary school in a poor neighborhood in San Francisco has confronted the problem of at-risk students through the turnaround strategy of accelerated education. The Daniel Webster School and schools in Redwood City have used cooperative learning, parent and community involvement, and increased student expectations to challenge traditional…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Learning, Disadvantaged Youth
Janey, Clifford B. – Equity and Choice, 1989
Reviews the role of technology in the classroom and the role that technology can play in educational reform. Discusses issues of educational equity connected with the use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in remedial, compensatory, and special education for minority students. (FMW)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
Davies, Don; And Others – Equity and Choice, 1991
A telephone survey of 26 principals on their use of Chapter 1 funds for family and community involvement activities found several barriers, including restrictions, lack of information and adequate funds, and fear of change. However, schoolwide planning, new legal flexibility, and district support can make Chapter 1 funds more useful. (JB)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Decision Making
