The purpose of this report is to describe the results of a series of studies conducted on the relationships between census information and school achievement in the Chicago Public Schools. These studies were designed as an exploratory investigation to determine the extent to which grade-level achievement averages could be predicted using data from…

The Edison Project, funded under Title VIII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, has as its major objectives the reduction of the dropout rate, the increasing of the average daily attendance, the improvement of basic skills, and the development of career awareness. The project has been established as an annex to Edison High School, an…

The present trend in writings on school has shifted womewhat from the documentation of educational inadequacies and inequities and suggestions for their reform, to analyses of the role schooling plays in out society generally. While the efforts of educationally disenfranchised communities to achieve some influence and control over the schooling of…

The operations of a citizen committee associated with two neighborhood public schools in the Boston area were studied to evaluate empirically the effectiveness of the committee in achieving certain policy goals. A case study approach to citizen committee power to influence educational decisionmaking was made in the areas of finance, curriculum,…

The Head Start Program, established in the summer of 1971 in District 15 in Brooklyn, is a pre-school program for children of economically disadvantaged families. Its two main goals are: (1) to prepare children with no prior school experience for entry into kindergarten and first grade and (2) to involve parents in the education of their children…

This report on some efforts being made in France to improve the education of the socially and culturally disadvantaged is presented for such value as it may have to American educational planners in their search for solution to this difficult problem. For the purposes of this study the term "socially and culturally handicapped or…

In the State of Washington, 297 of 316 local school districts operated Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act projects during Fiscal Year 1972 with approximately 12,272,000 dollars appropriated. The bulk of Title I funds (85 percent) supported project activities in the 25 largest school districts where most of the target populations are…

During the two years of research reported here, an attempt was made to differentiate those participants--all fourth graders--in an enriched educational program for disadvantaged ghetto children in several Harlem public schools who were thought to profit from a compensatory program, from those who did not. The guiding hypothesis is that the styles…

These hearings before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs are organized in several parts, of which this document is the first. These hearings begin with opening statements by a number of Senators. Following these, presentations are made by such witnesses as the following: Rev. Jesse Jackson, national director, Operation…

In June 1969, The Rand Corporation was funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity to evaluate an experimental commuter program operated by the Los Angeles Women's Job Corps Center (LAWJCC). An earlier report has described the evaluation design [ED 052 372]. This report presents the results of the empirical analysis. In the interest of deriving…

The overall objectives of the 1971-72 Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act program were: to raise reading and mathematics achievement level one year and five months; to reinforce, enrich, and extend skill mastery through integration of the special subject areas; to broaden the experiential backgrounds of the children; to recognize and…

Dichotomous poverty is defined by taking an arbitrary standard of consumption capability as a dividing line between rich and poor. An investigation into dichotomous poverty below the 2000 dollar level will be worthwhile, since, in 1953, the Planning Board announced as a goal the attempt to lift all families above this margin. In 1953, 78 percent…

Testimony was presented at these hearings by the following witnesses: Ronald Edmonds, assistant superintendent, School and Community Affairs, Michigan Department of Education; Dr. Daniel H. Kruger, professor, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University; Robert McKerr, associate superintendent, Business and Finance, Michigan…

This book owes its origin to a symposium on "Compensatory Education" which took place at the 1970 Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. The opening chapter discusses the complex concepts of "disadvantage,""deprivation," and "compensatory education," with illustrations from work carried out…

The second of a 2-volume study, this document contains a detailed analysis of the national Work Incentive Program (WIN) enrollee population. Described are characteristics and experiences of the enrollees before, during, and after their participation in WIN. A federally funded employment program, WIN provides reinforcements for vocational training…