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Curriculum Review, 1980
After briefly outlining the purpose of the National Diffusion Network (NDN), this article describes five reading programs judged by NDN to be exemplary. Each description includes target audience, content, evidence of effectiveness, implementation requirements, costs, and contact address. Three are primary programs, two elementary, and four…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedLevine, Daniel U. – Integrated Education, 1971
A summary description and evaluation of Project Uplift, a compensatory reading program for first and second graders in the Kansas City District's Title I schools. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedAllington, Richard – Reading Teacher, 1980
Provides a brief overview of the Educational Testing Service's 1971 survey of compensatory reading instruction in the United States. (FL)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
Download full textOffice of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This source book provides brief descriptions of exemplary Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs that have been approved for dissemination as of November of 1977. For each project the following sets of data are provided: (1) the target audience of the program, (2) a description, (3) tests administered to program participants and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation
Rogers, Donald D. – 1977
The Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) is a compensatory education effort undertaken in Washington, D.C., to attack reading problems at a community level. In this paper the following questions are addressed: (1) Can the Federal government afford RENP? (2) Is RENP more expensive to support as a Federal program than it would be with Title…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance
Peckens, Russell; And Others – 1975
A description and evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded project in Guam; "Facilitating Language Arts Through School and Home (FLASH V)," is reported in this document. The project consisted of three overlapping activities: the Cultural Language Arts Programs, home intervention, and school intervention.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts, Language Skills
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1977
In this publication the programs described serve local school districts, neglected and delinquent children in state institutions, schools for the handicapped, and the children of migratory agricultural workers and migratory fishermen. Most Title I programs were operated in elementary schools. Reading, mathematics, and language arts were the most…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Delinquency, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Smith, Lawrence L.; Bengston, John – 1978
This report documents the results of a special reading program offered to low income high school students involved in a youth incentive entitlement work/study project in Alachua County, Florida. The first section of the report discusses the need for literacy training through a reading enrichment program for entitlement students and the inadequacy…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, High School Students, Instructional Design, Literacy
Park, Jeanne S., Ed. – 1978
The 41 projects across the country funded under Title I, and validated by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Education Division as "exemplary" and worthy of duplication, are described in this booklet. The descriptions, which are aimed at telling parents, community groups and educators what is working in Title I, are taken…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Texley, Lloyd C.; And Others – 1972
The High Intensity Learning Center System in Reading, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is a teacher support system which defines each student's unique reading needs and prescribes appropriate learning activities to fill those needs. It is a system that permits one teacher to manage the learning activities of up…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1975
A description and evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded projects for the state of Arkansas is reported in this document. Fifty-seven percent of the students participating in Title I programs are white, while thirty-four percent are Latin American, American Indian or Oriental. Instructional activities in the Title I…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Peer reviewedSmith, Christine C.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1980
Describes a management system for seventh and eighth grades that includes a language arts classroom and reading laboratory rotation schedule and that emphasizes cognitive and affective goals. (MKM)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, English Instruction, Integrated Activities, Junior High Schools
Chattanooga Public Schools, TN. – 1974
A description and evaluation of 1973-74 programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, for the Chattanooga Public School System in Tennessee, are contained in this document. The main project components are reading and mathematics. The major problem associated with the 1973-74 Title I programs was a result of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Halliwell, Joseph – 1979
Based on observations of all Title I reading teachers participating in the Program for Optional Assignment in District 20K, Brooklyn, New York, this report summarizes the program's policies, practices, and student achievement results. The program proposal called for assigning special reading teachers to work with second through ninth grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education
McDonnell, Sheila – 1979
Seven programs funded under Title I Umbrella and Impact Aid and carried out in elementary and intermediate/junior high schools of District 24, Queens, New York, are described in this report. The programs are: (1) Strengthened Basic Skills Program; (2) Diagnosis and Treatment of Reading Disabilities; (3) Diagnostic/Prescriptive Mathematics Program;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education
