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Pogrow, Stanley – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Instead of espousing early intervention, schoolwide models, or general classroom aid, educators must develop more specialized programs treating the real problems of Chapter 1 students at different stages. Chapter 1 should not be used as general aid to replace local and state responsibility to improve schools, but should focus on helping…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government, Government Role
Download full textAdvanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1990
Designed to assist technical assistance center staff members and other inservice providers, this workshop leader's guide contains step-by-step procedures for preparing, organizing, and presenting a one-hour workshop on advanced skills for teachers, administrators, and others associated with Chapter 1 programs. Sections of the guide include: (1) an…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Guides, Reading Instruction
McRAT Report, 1991
This report describes the instruction, assessment, and staff development of the Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT) program and summarizes the results of a one-year study conducted in 1989-90. (McRAT is a nationally recognized staff development program designed to help teachers infuse higher order thinking skills and multicultural concepts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Multicultural Education
Hardy, Fredericia P. – 1992
This paper describes a practicum that incorporated semantic mapping, "rich" context clue instruction, and teacher modeling into a 12-week instructional program for 18 Chapter 1 fourth-grade students in rural Georgia who had shown deficiency in vocabulary knowledge with standardized test scores below the 50th percentile in the second and…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Modeling (Psychology)
Hershfield, Marlene – 1991
A practicum attempted to improve the low reading achievement of Chapter 1 students in a low socioeconomic fifth-grade class by implementing a self-esteem building program. Activities were designed in a workbook format to complement class instruction in self-esteem building exercises. An emphasis on critical thinking skills was incorporated into…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Eisenman, J. Gordon, Jr. – 1995
The Higher Order Thinking Skills Program (HOTS) is a computer-based program for teaching thinking skills developed by Stanley Pogrow at the University of Arizona. It is now used in over 800 U.S. schools. This study investigated the effects of the HOTS program versus the traditional Chapter 1 program on fourth and fifth grade students'…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum, Elementary School Students
Advanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1990
The "Clipboard Connection" is a methodology to facilitate the rapid circulation of relevant pre-existing materials from Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Centers of relevant materials from Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Centers (TACs) to their clients, teachers of educationally disadvantaged children in resource centers. Each…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Advanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1990
The "Clipboard Connection" is a methodology to facilitate the rapid circulation of relevant pre-existing materials from Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Centers (TACs) to their clients, teachers of educationally disadvantaged children in resource centers. Each "Clipboard Connection" consists of a lead sheet summarizing the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
D'Agostino, Jerome; Hiestand, Nancy – 1995
Summer school is thought to be an effective alternative delivery mode for Chapter 1 education. The effectiveness of summer Chapter 1 programs was studied during Fall 1993 in 68 Chicago (Illinois) public schools. Students who had been in fourth grade in 1991-92 were divided into a group that had received Chapter 1 help during the school year and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedEisenman, Gordon; Payne, Beverly D. – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1997
Contrasted effects of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) program to those of Chapter 1 programs on fourth and fifth graders' reading achievement, self-concept, and higher-order thinking skills. Found that HOTS is more effective in raising self-concept and some higher-order thinking skills in fifth grade and after two years of treatment, with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Advanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1990
The "Clipboard Connection" is a methodology to facilitate the rapid circulation of relevant pre-existing materials from Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Centers (TACs) to their clients, teachers of educationally disadvantaged children in resource centers. Each "Clipboard Connection" consists of a lead sheet summarizing the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Advanced Technology, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1990
The "Clipboard Connection" is a methodology to facilitate the rapid circulation of relevant pre-existing materials from Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Centers (TACs) to their clients, teachers of educationally disadvantaged children in resource centers. Each "Clipboard Connection" consists of a lead sheet summarizing the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Sacramento City Unified School District, CA. – 1992
The long-term effects of state compensatory education (SCE) and Chapter 1 programs on the development of basic skills and academic achievement of Sacramento (California) were studied for a sample of over 6,000 SCE and Chapter 1 students in grades 2 through 5. Follow-up and retroactive approaches were used to ascertain the degree to which thinking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Black Students
Resnick, Lauren B.; And Others – 1991
Early results are reported for an effort to use a reasoning-based mathematics program in the primary classroom. In the preschool years, children develop knowledge about quantities of material, referred to as protoquantitative reasoning. Integrating counting with the protoquantitative schemas seems to occur as early as 4 years of age. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Mathematics
