Background: Education plays a pivotal role in empowering individuals with the knowledge and skills needed for careers, economic progress, and societal engagement. Dropping out of school before achieving a qualification undermines these opportunities and has an impact on individuals and society (Audit Commission, 2010; OECD, 2023). International…

The federally mandated evaluation system resulted from past failures to provide Congress with accurate information on how well Title I was working. The new system which is designed to aggregate locally developed evaluations into a national summary is described. (Author/RL)

Looks at past evaluation of compensatory education, suggests new approaches to evaluation, and makes recommendations about program implementation. (IRT)

This paper explores problems of construct validity in the evaluation of the Follow Through Planned Variation program. Comments center around political ramifications of the program evaluation design, insufficient knowledge on the part of program planners, the diversity of the experimental options, and the instability of the sample. It is suggested…

This document reviews and summarizes fifteen major studies of compensatory education, and in particular Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It provides students, researchers, evaluators, and policymakers with a usable guide to the evolution of approaches associated with this large scale educational program. These studies…

This overview traces the development of thought from the Plowden Report through Halsey's work on educational priority areas to the author's own research on the use of playgroups in a council estate, concluding that schools, by themselves, cannot compensate for the ravages of deprivation. (Author/JM)

Cross age tutoring is the subject of this document. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This document, one of a series of seven on this…

FOR EACH EXCEPTIONALITY AREA, THIS DOCUMENT OUTLINES A STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT, SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, INITIATION OF A DISTRICT PROGRAM, CONSTRUCTION OF A DISTRICT PROGRAM, IMPLEMENTION AND PROSECUTION OF A DISTRICT PROGRAM, AND EVALUATION OF A DISTRICT PROGRAM. THE APPENDIX CHARTS…

This paper discusses Federal Title I administration, and focuses on the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's activity in rulemaking and monitoring and enforcement. It also examines some of the similarities and differences in the ways states manage Title I and the implications of these strategies for local districts, particularly urban…

This report concerns the review by the General Accounting Office of the operation of the fiscal year 1970 programs, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and certain aspects of the 1971 programs of the Illinois State educational agency, and of the Chicago, Harrisburg, and Rockford local educational agencies. The local…

A three-year evaluation of the Learning Research and Development Center's program of individualized instruction was conducted in seven Follow Through sites and three Pittsburgh area schools. To improve such empirical evaluation studies, researchers should gather data according to a theory, increase the number of classrooms surveyed, and gather…

The Louisiana Round Table of Program Evaluators was organized in 1980 among educational evaluators from large parish school systems and the State Department of Education to discuss topics of mutual concern. Since its inception the group has been instrumental in the development and implementation of various workshops directed toward the improvement…

The Chapter 2 (Educational Block Grant) program of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA), which became effective on July 1, 1982, aims to improve elementary and secondary education (including pre-school education) for children attending both public and private schools. Two major goals are the following: (1) to provide flexibility…

Designed as a technical resource, this paper provides information related to adoption of National Diffusion Network (NDN) programs in urban districts with populations in excess of 300,000. Data were drawn from a survey mailed to all NDN participants in early 1978, and are presented in four sections, mostly in the form of graphs, tables and charts.…

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…