All special programs at Dean Rusk Elementary School, funded in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, combined to facilitate individualized instruction in the nongraded, open classroom setting of the school. To better meet the needs of the pupils during the 1972-73 school year, the Follow Through Program included, for…

Part one of this two-part report focuses on the supplementary programs, partially funded under Titles I and IV of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School. The faculty at Bethune chose to focus on the primary clusters--kindergarten, first, second, and third grades--for evaluation. Special emphasis was…

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…

Teaching practices in a total of 273 first and third grade Follow Through classrooms were examined in relation to (1) their consistency with the goals of seven sponsors' educational models, and (2) their effects on children's performance in areas ranging from reading and arithmetic achievement to nonverbal reasoning, independence and school…

The major focus of this interim report on Boston's Chapter I Elementary Reading Program (1982-83) is a comparison of the traditional pull-out model with a pilot model in which the Chapter I teacher works in the student's regular classroom and uses the same basal reader as the classroom teacher. The pilot project was not well received, with 73…

A study of thirteen exemplary compensatory education projects in Elementary Education (nine in reading, four in mathematics) in the State of New York is described in this report. The study, which was designed to investigate and describe specific educational practices so that they could be replicated in other schools, found ten major factors which…

The general program at Robinson Elementary School was supported by two compensatory programs, one federally funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act and one locally funded. 24 pupils who were considered to be the most educationally deprived by virtue of standardized test scores were selected for the Title I…

Analysis of the reading and math California Achievement Test performance of participants in compensatory reading and math programs in the Atlanta, Georgia, public schools is consistent with previous findings. The lowest performing students were selected to participate, and although the level of their performance was well below the national norm…

A national observer team surveyed 335 Head Start Centers during an 8-week summer period to locate useful innovations and developments in preschool education methods which might have future implications for the whole educational system. Team reports agreed that the programs had been more successful in bolstering the social and emotional needs of…

This report presents a description of the instructional programs, funded in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and the findings of a study which assessed pupil performance in reading and mathematics and related estimated costs to pupil performance. The following projects were utilized as resources: To better meet…

This report describes a pre-entry summer program at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, designed to develop attitudinal readiness and coqnitive abilities of students who face a high risk of attrition because of inadequate learning skills. The program, which runs for eight weeks, consists of three phases: 1) phase one,…

During fiscal year 1977, training workshops on the new ESEA Title I evaluation and reporting system were conducted for State level program administrators and evaluators. In this report, the workshop activities are documented. The purposes and development of the evaluation system and the technical assistance efforts are summarized, as an…

Designing and Implementing Programs for the Little School Component is a program funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III and designed to develop, implement, and disseminate a program of individualized instruction at the Howard D. Woodson Senior High School. This program is a third year continuation of the program initiated in…

This report is the third technical report submitted to the U. S. Office of Education in connection with a study the overall purpose of which was to choose up to eight successful education programs serving underachieving, poor children and to design "Project Information Packages" for each of them. These Project Information Packages were to serve as…

This pamphlet is about some of the techniques for curriculum planning which may prove useful in translating the aims of social education--competence, confidence, and co-operation--into practical educational procedures. It must be recognized from the start that for the enterprise of planning to be a success it has to be a shared enterprise; a group…