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Reichman, Susan L.; Rayford, Lawrence – 1988
Using test results to align curriculum was studied in two applications with Chapter 1 programs. Curriculum alignment is the process of coordinating instruction so that a particular curriculum builds on skills students have learned in previous courses while providing skills for future success. In using test results for program improvement,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedFox, Barbara J. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Argues that an increased federal government emphasis on accountability will have a great impact on reading teachers in the 1990s. Explains the changes brought about by the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary Education Improvement Amendments of 1988. Explores the possibilities for responding to a strengthened federal focus on accountability.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Birman, Beatrice F. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
A recent analysis of the Chapter 1 program shows that it facilitates achievement. However, it does not move students substantially toward the achievement levels of advantaged students, and the gains do not persist after students leave the program. Six findings are presented along with recommendations for improving the programs. (VM)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education. – 1991
Testimonies, prepared statements, and supplementary materials presented at a hearing on the role of business in educational reform and implications of the Hawkins-Stafford Amendments of 1988 are compiled in this document. Findings from a survey of state Chapter 1 coordinators are provided, as well as information about the American Business…
Descriptors: Accountability, Business Responsibility, Cooperative Education, Corporate Support
Funkhouser, Janie E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1985
The summary descriptions of state programs in compensatory education (SCE) contained in this report update information presented in the 1981 Bay Area Research Group (BARG) report. A more restrictive definition of compensatory education is used in this current report, whereby only programs in which a specific target population is named and in which…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, Educationally Disadvantaged
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1987
Local Education Agency (LEA) administrators (principals and superintendents) and State Chapter 1 coordinators representing all 50 states were surveyed regarding their reactions to House Omnibus bill (HR 5), which would significantly change Chapter 1 programs. Over 3,600 school districts responded. The respondents were asked to indicate their level…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Coordinators, Educational Finance
Leitner, David; Trevisan, Mike – 1993
This paper presents findings of a case study that documented the implementation of a portfolio assessment system in response to mandated program improvement and assessed its impact on teacher and student behaviors. The sample included elementary and middle school teachers and students from three Chapter 1 schools in a rural California school…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Gaffney, Michael J.; Schember, Daniel M. – 1987
This paper describes and analyzes the internal consistency of the formal and informal legal frameworks governing certain aspects of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 Chapter 1 Program. A major focus is how these frameworks differ from those of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the program which…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Coordination, Delivery Systems
Kaemper, Jack; Morse, Kathy – 1988
Six of the 39 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public Schools' Chapter 1 participating schools, as part of the school-based budgeting process, allocated a portion of their Chapter 1 resource allocation for on-site intensive staff development activities. Three schools--Alamosa, Chaparral, and Duranes--agreed to utilize the time of a Support for…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Full Time Equivalency, Inservice Teacher Education
Barro, Stephen M. – 1991
In the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to conduct a study of methods used to allocate federal elementary and secondary education grants among the states. This document, the final report on that study, assesses grant distribution funding…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Advanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1989
This document outlines practical considerations involved in planning schoolwide projects funded under Title I Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1975. A schoolwide project is a project conducted by a school district to upgrade the entire educational program of a school that has an enrollment of at least 75 percent low-income…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility
Chicago Public Schools, IL. – 1991
The Chicago (Illinois) School Reform Act of 1988 (Public Act 85-1418) requires each attendance center in the Chicago Public Schools system to prepare a three-year School Improvement Plan. This guide was prepared to help schools coordinate various plans and to link improvement planning with budgeting. The guide includes four principal sections. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Compensatory Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Support Programs. – 1987
This document presents the distribution of Chapter 1 funds in North Carolina during academic year 1985-86, and analyzes the effects Chapter 1 programs have on student's academic performance. Included among the findings are the following: (1) 125,355 students, or nine percent of the students in North Carolina's 1,378 schools, participated in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Educational Improvement
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
This report presents statements, letters and supplementary material submitted in favor of a bill renewing funding for Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Testimony describes how successful the program has been and suggests how the bill can be changed and the Chapter 1 program improved. Among suggestions made are the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Dropouts, Educational Finance
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Div. of Program Resources. – 1995
Under the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, the eligibility requirement to become a Title I schoolwide program is relaxed. As a result, there will be a dramatic increase in the number of schoolwide programs. The Kentucky Department of Education saw a critical need to develop a planning guide to be used for technical assistance to eligible…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
