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Community School District 7, Bronx, NY. – 1978
This report determines the congruence between the designs of the ESEA Title I and Impact Aid Programs and the actual implemented products, and also assesses the worth of these programs in terms of their outcomes. The aims and purposes of programs relating to the strengthening of verbal (including bilingual) and mathematical skills among elementary…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBrandt, Ronald S. – Educational Leadership, 1978
The main implication seems to be that the national government should take care. If it wants to solve social problems at the level of the individual, the Follow Through experience offers no encouragement that it can be done through federally directed curricular reform. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education
Download full textAustin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1976
The state-funded compensatory education program instituted in the Austin Independent School District in Texas in 1975 consisted of a basic skills component (communication skills/reading and math) for students meeting ESEA Title I criteria, and a bilingual component designed to mesh with the ESEA Title VII Bilingual Project. Enthusiasm for the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1979
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I evaluations submitted by local education agencies to the Virginia Department of Education are compiled in this report to summarize statewide Title I implementation during the 1977-78 school year and summer. An overall summary of Title I programs is presented in narrative form, as are descriptions…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Griffin, Virginia; And Others – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills (BES). The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Latham, Eleanor E. – 1980
This evaluation research report describes a program originally implemented to meet the needs of English dominant Hispanic students in an urban junior high school. The report combines qualitative and quantitative data in order to provide an understanding of the relationship of program goals, implementation procedures, and effects and delineates…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Hispanic Americans, Individualized Instruction
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1966
PRESENTED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF 18 TYPICAL PROJECTS IN VERMONT WHICH WERE DEVELOPED WITH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I FUNDS. ARRANGED BY CITY OR TOWN, EACH BRIEF PROJECT RESUME PRESENTS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE NEED AND SUBSTANTIATION (BASELINE DATA), TITLE, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS, AND COST. OVERALL, THE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs
Office 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
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
The 1989 New York City Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) Summer Remediation Program met or exceeded each of its objectives. The program comprised basic skills and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, serving 12,785 students in 880 classes in the regular high schools and an unspecified number of students at 73 off-site…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English (Second Language), High Schools
NTS Research Corp., Durham, NC. – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills. The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families. This…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
NTS Research Corp., Durham, NC. – 1980
The overall purpose of the national Head Start evaluation is to assess the impact, on the children and parents being served, of: (1) the educational services component of Head Start, and (2) a new demonstration program within Head Start, Basic Educational Skills. The evaluation deals with a total of 65 Head Start programs and their families. This…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedHouse, Ernest R.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1978
Examines the Abt Associates, Inc. findings on the effectiveness of Project Follow Through and disputes the report's conclusion that so-called "basic skills" approaches to the schooling of poor children are superior to other methods. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education
Mack, Faite R-P. – 1978
This is an evaluation of the Title I Program of the Michigan Training Unit, a program designed to provide compensatory education in basic skills for young adult male prisoners. The evaluation provides information to enable decision-makers to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the program and considers whether the program fulfilled…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
Roberts, Veronica A.; Madhere, Serge – 1990
This evaluation of the 1989-90 Resource Laboratory Program for Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) in Washington (District of Columbia) elementary and junior high schools found that the program improved participants' mathematics achievement, but did not have a significant effect on reading achievement. The program is funded under Chapter 1 of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education
NJEA Review, 1977
Examines the continuing controversy on test scores and student achievement in New Jersey. (RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
