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Redding, Sam; Dunn, Lenay; McCauley, Carlas – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2015
The purpose of this guide is to provide states, districts, and schools with information and support to prepare applications for 2015-2016 School Improvement Grants (SIGs). The guide includes tools, checklists, and questions for SEAs and LEAs aligned with the revised SIG requirements, primarily focused on how to leverage the "planning…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Grants, Federal Aid, School Turnaround
Whitefoot, Patricia – National Indian Education Association, 2010
In this testimony, Patricia Whitefoot talks on behalf of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) with regard to President Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request. She describes how Native education still faces enormous challenges, including severe underfunding. Far too many students and schools continue to experience abject failure. NIEA…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Budgets, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
Taylor, Myrtice M.; Helton, Jane R. – 1973
The purpose of this report is to present a description of the instructional program, funded in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and the findings of the study which assessed pupil performance in reading and mathematics and related estimated costs to pupil performance. The following projects were utilized as…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstrations (Educational)
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Le Tendre, Mary Jean – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1996
Examines the change in focus of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 from an emphasis on isolated remedial add-on services to a concentration on leveraging overall improvement in teaching and learning. Benefits of schoolwide programs are highlighted, and the components needed for developing high-functioning schools are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
This final report presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Title I Institutionalized Facilities Program in New York City for the 1980-81 school year. The areas of evaluation included: physical facilities, staff, instructional approaches in reading, mathematics and writing, materials selection and utilization,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
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Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
This interim report of the "National Assessment of Chapter 1 Independent Review Panel" presents preliminary findings from studies completed as part of a national assessment of the Chapter 1 program. The first of the report's seven sections discusses the intent of the program, while the second examines its educational and economic…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Change, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education