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Emond, Louis – 1976
Junior colleges with open enrollment policies have as students many of the adults in this country whom national surveys and studies have indicated are functionally incompetent or barely literate. This paper contains a review of the literature concerning junior college remedial reading programs and compensatory education programs. The four…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Learning Laboratories, Literature Reviews
Download full textSouth Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Div. of Instruction. – 1975
In South Carolina 235,420 children were served by Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs. The Fiscal Year 1975 allocation to South Carolina was 30,882,029 dollars. Reading activities were provided for 64 percent of Title I students, math programs for 48 percent, and dropout prevention activities for nine percent. The instructional…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Wilson, Milton P. – 1973
The purpose of the demonstration programs in intensive instruction for low-achieving students was essentially to enable school districts to establish and operate exemplary and innovative projects to improve the competence of junior high school students in reading and mathematics. Thirteen original projects moved into their third year of operation…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Individualized Instruction
Tompkins, John F. – 1983
Over 600 students were served by the Reading/Mathematics Lab Program of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. Students enrolled in the mathematics lab at all grade levels attained an increase in mean percentile rank from pre- to post-testing as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills administered in October 1982 and again…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Block Grants, Budgets
Rosenblatt, Richard D. – 1979
The effectiveness of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I reading and mathematics laboratories were evaluated to assess the improvement of underachieving elementary school students' academic skills. Laboratory students were selected on the basis of academic (rather than socioeconomic) criteria in grades 2 through 5; the control…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Compensatory Education
Des Moines Public Schools, IA. Dept. of Information Management. – 1994
The Chapter 1 reading, writing, and mathematics instruction programs of the Des Moines (Iowa) public schools were evaluated for the 1993-94 school year. These programs provided supplemental instruction for about 2,968 students in 1993-94 through six components: (1) schoolwide projects; (2) the Reading Recovery Program; (3) the Reading/Writing Lab…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educational Planning
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effect of a questioning strategy on reading comprehension and attitudes towards reading of secondary school remedial readers; (2) enhancing memory for…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Compensatory Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Dyslexia
Community School District 9, Bronx, NY. – 1979
Programs undertaken by Community School District 9 in Bronx, New York, funded by Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act and Impact Aid, are evaluated in this report. The following programs are presented: (1) Basic Skills Center Reading Program, (2) Project Best (a bicultural/bilingual reading and math program for Spanish dominant…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged students' detection of written fallacies in reasoning; the effects of remedial reading instruction, a camp-style reading/study program, and reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Training, Black Students, Compensatory Education
