Education laws and policies have moved toward promoting socio-emotional (SEL) skills, adopting numerous terminologies in their standards. However, the incremental change has left compensatory education practitioners who are committed to promoting SEL opportunities with little guidance when the programs' governing policies do not include language…

In this article, Edward Zigler, interviewed by Barbara Beatty, talks about a turning point in the history of Head Start that reveals how policy choices, bureaucracy, and science came together when he was told to phase out the program in 1970. New to Washington, Zigler learned that President Richard M. Nixon's domestic policy advisor Daniel Patrick…

I focus on the role of preschool intervention and developmental psychology researchers in defining the concept of the "disadvantaged child" and in designing and evaluating remedies to alleviate educational "disadvantages" in young children. I argue that preschool interventions concentrated especially on compensating for…

Full-year Head Start programs are listed in State order in this directory. Mailing address and director's name are provided for each program. Locations of OCD regional offices are provided in an appendix. (KM)

This document provides an abbreviated descriptive summary of each Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I project implemented by local education agencies in New York State during fiscal year 1976. The information is presented by county. Financial data is indicated. Amendments to the original Title I, ESEA, include Public Law 89-750…

THIS REPORT LISTS TITLE I PROJECTS IN NEW YORK STATE AND NOTES THEIR EXPENDITURES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1966. TITLE I FUNDS, MORE THAN $109 MILLION, WERE SPENT ON SPECIAL COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. (LB)

The contents of this report are organized in five parts, as follows. Part One, "Title I: The Cornerstone of Compensatory Education," is a discussion of Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act (PL 89-10): its purpose, the scope of Title I programs, the selection of target areas, aid to nonpublic school children, the…

THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED WAS TO INITIATE COMPENSATORY LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS PROGRAMS FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN IN COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA. EACH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL WAS GIVEN AN ALLOCATION OF FUNDS AND THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM. ADDITIONAL TEACHERS AND ANCILLARY PERSONNEL WERE EMPLOYED. SELECTION OF STUDENTS WAS ACCOMPLISHED…

THIS REPORT LISTS ABOUT 1,050 EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS AND SERVICES ACCORDING TO THE COUNTIES IN WHICH THE PROJECTS TOOK PLACE. THE LIST INDICATES THE (1) DESCRIPTIVE TITLE OF THE PROJECT, (2) SCHOOL DISTRICT, (3) GRADE LEVELS INVOLVED, AND (4) TIME OF THE PROJECT (REGULAR SCHOOL YEAR, SUMMER SCHOOL, OR BOTH). (LB)

While forging a political and social consensus to support existing compensatory education efforts, supporters have exhausted any notion of whom they mean to help, what their problems are, how to determine success, or how best to help. This article redefines high risk youth, dispels some common misconceptions about low-achievers, and outlines…

THE PROGRESS OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT (ESEA) TITLE I COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECTS IN 1,044 CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS IS SUMMARIZED IN THIS REPORT. THE FIRST SECTION GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECTS AND DISCUSSES FUND ALLOCATIONS AND SUCH PROBLEMS AS LACK OF STAFF AND THE TIGHT TIME SCHEDULE DUE TO DELAYED…

THESE ABSTRACTS DESCRIBE TITLE I COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECTS CONDUCTED FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH IN THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS DURING 1965-66. EACH ABSTRACT LISTS THE PROJECT'S ADMINISTRATOR, APPROVAL DATE AND DURATION, BUDGET, PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS, AND PERSONNEL, AND PROVIDES A BRIEF NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF EACH PROJECT. (LB)

THIS REPORT CONTAINS THE RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF TITLE I PROJECT DEVELOPMENT. A QUESTIONNAIRE REQUESTED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION--NAME OF PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, TYPE OF PROJECT (CURRICULUM, MULTIMEDIA, STUDENT-PERSONNEL SERVICES, ADMINISTRATIVE, OR OTHER), NUMBER OF PUPILS SERVED,…