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Keliher, Alice V. – Children, 1969
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs, Health Programs
True, Douglas; Ehda, Patty – 1980
Designed as a handbook for primary grade parent volunteers in Kings County Schools (California), this publication provides information on compensatory education and parent involvement. The following special programs are explained briefly: Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title IVB of the ESEA, Senate Bill 90 for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Compensatory Education, Parent Materials, Parent Participation
Download full textPlunkett, Virginia R. L. – 1969
This publication describes (1) the origin of the Follow Through program, (2) the present status of the Colorado Follow Through program, and (3) criteria for establishing other such programs. It contains a dozen photographs of children participating in Follow Through programs. (WD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Parent Participation, Primary Education
Juniper Gardens Children's Project, Kansas City, MO. – 1968
Thirty children and their mothers from a poverty area of Kansas City enrolled in a Head Start parent cooperative nursery school. The mothers actively participated in a parent-training program consisting of tutorial training in which a series of lessons designed to teach preacademic concepts and skills to the children was presented to the mothers.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Mothers, Parent Participation
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Dept. for Exceptional Children. – 1973
The four Follow Through projects in Illinois are described and evaluated. These projects involve approximately 1,450 children in K-3 in Mounds, East Saint Louis, Waukegan, and Chicago. The Chicago project is subdivided into three individual projects and is trying three experimental programs. Emphasis is given to the nature of the environmental…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Curriculum Services. – 1978
Of the 345 Title I projects in operation in Massachusetts during 1975 58% were conducted during the school year, and 42% were conducted during the summer term. During this year, 77,706 children attending both public and nonpublic schools participated in Title I programs. Of the 319 projects responding, 98% indicated that they had an active Title I…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Mathematics
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1977
Information presented in this report includes basic statistics for fiscal year 1977, participation trends, instructional impact, expenditures and staffing patterns, parent involvement, and five-year trends. The first ranked areas of instruction in the Title I program was reading, and the second was mathematics. A third significant instructional…
Descriptors: Activities, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1978
The thirteenth annual report of activities provided in Ohio through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, this summary includes information on the following: basic statistics for fiscal 1978 (the 1977-1978 school year and the summer that followed); participation trends arranged according to instructional areas; grade ranges of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction
Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments, Huntsville. Human Resources Program. – 1973
This report describes the Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments (TARCOG) Home Start Program. Five aspects of the program are presented. (1) The nutrition component is aimed at helping parents make the best use of food resources through good planning, buying, and cooking. (2) The health program involves provision of medical and dental…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Health Services, Intervention
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Federal Programs. – 1978
Descriptions of ten reading, mathematics and readiness programs chosen for statewide dissemination in South Carolina are presented in this document. The programs were selected following a study funded by Title I and conducted to serve 127,702 children in local South Carolina school districts. Each was found to provide solutions to critical…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Learning Readiness
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1979
The Transitional Class Program is a joint effort of the New York City Board of Education and the Community School Districts to provide a positive learning experience for children in their early school years who have fallen behind their peers. This preliminary report describes the program and examines its impact on student attendance. Student…
Descriptors: Attendance, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Instructional Programs
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1979
This handbook provides a comparative listing of 22 federally legislated basic skills programs. Included are the names and phone numbers of working representatives associated with each program, application deadlines, target groups, funding instruments, possible grantees, sign-off requirements, program content, technical assistance, evaluation…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Tuscumbia Public Schools, AL. – 1969
Objectives of this program are to provide health services, foster emotional development, plan for educational growth as a developmental and purposeful process, and encourage parent participation. Children receive medical and dental examinations and care. Social workers serve as liaisons between school, home, and community for recruitment and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Emotional Development
Mahony, Janice; Hayward, Becky Jon – 1980
The goals of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program operated by the Public Schools of the District of Columbia were to provide disadvantaged children with supplemental instructional services to improve their performance in reading and mathematics and to support their affective and psychomotor development. Almost 15,000 students…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Affective Objectives, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1970
This profile of Project Head Start as it was in 1968 is based on data compiled from Bureau of the Census surveys. The sample involved 5 percent of the children and their families in the full year program and 1 percent in summer Head Start. Approximately 1 out of every 4 classes in the full year and 1 out of every 20 classes in the summer program…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Demography, Facilities, Family Characteristics
