Background: School-based dental sealant programs are noted to increase sealant uptake among children, especially those from low-income families and those living in rural and underserved areas. However, nationally school-based dental sealant programs are substantially underutilized. This paper describes a partnership approach to a school-based…

Mindfulness research is growing as educators and practitioners place emphasis on social emotional learning (SEL). Evidence supports mindfulness benefits are both physical and mental to include lowering blood pressure, decreased anxiety, increased executive functioning, and increased ability to pay attention. While the benefits of mindfulness…

As numerous studies from 1906 on have confirmed, children lose ground in learning if they lack opportunities for building skills over the summer. Nonetheless, summer learning loss comes up but rarely in the national discussion of education reform. By the end of summer, students perform on average one month behind where they left off in the spring.…

The CREED 4 Project, the fourth of a continuing series, had as its objective the development of activities and materials for the remediation of deficits found in deaf children (ages 4-8 years) with special learning problems and who had been administered the battery of tests developed in CREED 3, designed to assess five critical areas. A sample of…

This is the first of the progress and interim reports prepared for an evaluation study of compensatory education programs to be completed by 1977. This report describes and analyzes those parts of the research proposed in the research plan which have, to date, been fully designed and funded. These consist of (1) a description and discussion of…

Title I programming emphasis in Georgia is increasingly oriented toward basic skills. Fifty-eight percent of the total "participation units" were engaged in English reading and mathematics activities. No other activity or service received as much as 8 percent of the participation total. English reading activities accounted for 56.5…

This manual contains selected materials and ideas generated during the multicultural program implementation at Fremont Elementary School in 1974-75 which was funded under ESEA Title I. The program included: (1) the consecutive concentrated study of five individual cultures and (2) a comparative multicultural approach built around five basic…

This report discusses the background of a program funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, initiated in 1970 to upgrade language abilities (ULA) of secondary students in American Samoa, contains a description of its many components, summarizes activities and accomplishments for fiscal year 1973 displays feedback and evaluation data…

Five major themes mark the development of public education in New York City from its early nineteenth century beginning to the mid-twentieth century: (1) the effort to provide free education for all children through the twelfth grade; (2) the development of special schools and programs for gifted youth; (3) the development of programs for children…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the operation and effects of Title I ESEA programs operative in selected school districts in Michigan in relation to change in their respective elementary curricula as perceived by elementary school teachers. A total of 87 teachers took part. A questionnaire was developed and administered. In addition,…

The purpose of this curriculum is to increase the skills and self confidence of 20 to 30 parents who reside in "economically disadvantaged" school districts to the extent that they will become more active in seeking improvements in the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I and other compensatory education programs in their…

Prior experience with Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs has provided evidence that school districts are implementing supplementary programs funded by Title I which are separate and distinct from the base education programs. The focus of this study is on the relationship between the Title I supplementary programs and the base…

The aim of this plan is to structure a program geared to the needs of the individual pupil and at the same time to be of more assistance to the employer in the cooperative program. (Editor)

This report contains a summation of the data collected on the Fiscal Year 1973 Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 projects in the State of Illinois. The report covers many issues which are relevant to the Title I projects. Such issues are: participation of local educational agencies, program objectives, results of the instructional…

The concept of needs and educational assessment is a blending of community participation and evaluation. There are four primary steps in this concept: goal definition, program assessment, needs identification, and decision making. This document offers a guideline model aimed at a simple, economical method of needs and educational assessment. It…