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Download full textAdams, Marilyn Jager – 1986
This paper discusses ways that students can better be taught to think. It argues that poor/low-achieving students served by Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 could genuinely profit from instruction on thinking and that, for maximum impact, such instruction should be introduced as a course in itself, separate from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Compensatory Education
Doyle, Walter – 1986
This conference reaction paper tracks some of the common themes that run through five papers presented at the same conference at the session on curricular and instructional issues in compensatory education with special reference to Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. The reaction paper attempts to interpret the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Coppola, Mary Allison – 1991
This study was conducted to identify a difference between preschool teachers' and school-based administrators' perceptions of critical issues and the numerical ranking assigned to those issues in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' (North Carolina) Chapter 1 Preschool Program. The study tested three hypotheses, and sought to ascertain what teachers…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Attitudes
Passow, A. Harry – 1986
The papers presented at this conference review current research on effective educational practices for low-achieving students and identify those that might be applied to programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. A function assumed by several conference participants was to act as reactor to papers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedIkpa, Vivian – Educational Research Quarterly, 1993
A study of the effects of gender, race, and participation in the Chapter 1 program on the achievement gap between students in grade 3 (mandated busing year) and grade 4 (after termination of busing) for 434 students in Norfolk (Virginia) indicates declines in achievement test score for both African-American and white students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, Busing
Zumwalt, Karen K. – 1986
The papers presented at this conference review current research on effective educational practices for low-achieving students and identify those that might be applied to programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. A function assumed by several conference participants was to act as reactor to papers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives
