How the Swedish after-school leisure program pedagogy relates to special education is rarely the subject of research. The problematization of the special education concept in the after-school leisure centers will be the starting point of this analysis model. This has been constructed with the aim of investigating how actors in the Swedish…

Provides detailed examples of the components of Title I as recently revised and suggests alternative ways that the program's new flexibility can be used to enhance school reform. Revised Title I audit procedures are also designed to promote improved program performance and increased understanding of the law. (SLD)

The St. Louis (Missouri) Public Schools After School program, which was implemented for the first time during the 1979-1980 school year, was designed to provide after school remedial mathematics and reading instruction to students in grades 1 to 8 who could not be serviced during the school day due to lack of space or program availability. Factors…

This report examines the impact of instructional programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act on the academic achievement of students served in the Houston (Texas) Independent School District during the 1989-90 school year. The Chapter 1 programs provided supplemental remedial instruction in reading/language…

Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) (P.L. 98-211 as amended) and New Jersey State Chapter 212 were enacted to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) to expand and improve their educational programs to meet the special needs of educationally deprived children. Each eligible LEA must apply…

Implementation of schoolwide projects in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) illustrates some of the conceptual problems associated with the Hawkins Stafford accountability amendments to the Chapter 1 supplementary education program. Unintended negative consequences are discussed, and recommendations are made to overcome these problems, including the…

An evaluative study was done of the supplemental education delivery system in reading and mathematics in the School District of the City of Saginaw (Michigan) at 28 schools. At the elementary school level the system includes push-in and pull-out programs in reading and mathematics and in reading intervention that served 2,494 students in grades…

Since 1981, Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act has provided school districts with supplementary services funds for more than five million low-achieving students. Historically, schools have used "pull-out" programs to serve this population, but the provisions of the current legislation, the Hawkins-Stafford…