This report presents an evaluation of the 1984-85 Hartford (Connecticut) Project Concern program, an education intervention for children from Title I schools. The report focuses on two areas: (1) monitoring the cognitive and affective impact of Project Concern over the current school year; and (2) examining the extent to which the reading and…

This report presents findings of an evaluation of Project Concern, a basic skills and career development program initially undertaken to foster school desegregation by busing inner city pupils to suburban schools in the Hartford, Connecticut, metropolitan area. The report describes the outcomes of project graduates, dropouts, and nonparticipants…

Evaluated in this report on Project Concern in Hartford, Connecticut, are (1) the cognitive and affective impact of Project Concern in the school year 1982-83; and (2) the sustained cognitive effects of Project Concern from Spring 1981 to Spring 1983. Project Concern began in September, 1966, as an experiment in educational intervention for…

Project Concern is an experiment in educational intervention for children in those Hartford, Connecticut schools under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Begun in September, 1966, the program aims to achieve school desegregation objectives by busing Hartford students to schools in the suburbs and by busing students from schools…