Reading Recovery (RR) is an early intervention program that provides intensive one-on-one services for first-grade students who experience difficulty in learning to read. RR teachers provide daily individualized lessons for 30 minutes until children are able to perform within the average range for their peers. RR was initiated in the Wake County…

R. Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (IE) Program was used as a tool of cognitive educational intervention with 10 deaf children (ages 7 to 15), all recent immigrants from Ethiopia to Israel. The group's special education needs resulted from their deafness, lack of formal educational experience, lack of previous exposure to sign language or…

Two related studies of the relationship between non-English language background (NELB) and the academic achievement of high school seniors are reported. The first is a kindergarten reading follow-up study (n=3,959) examining the long-term effects on high school seniors of learning to read or not learning to read in kindergarten. Results of this…

Opportunity-to-Learn (OTL) benefits all students by providing information about how to improve the academic achievement of students, especially poor and minority students. This paper discusses ways in which the OTL conceptual framework can be expanded. OTL's conceptual framework identified four variables that have a powerful influence on teachers'…

Chapter I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the largest federally-funded program designed to provide services to elementary and secondary students to meet the special needs of educationally deprived students who reside in areas with high concentrations of low-income families. The 1994-95 school year is the last year of…

The Federal Government has sponsored job training for the unemployed and economically disadvantaged for more than three decades. The National Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) study is the first evaluation of a major ongoing national program that uses a random assignment experimental design in which only program experience divides participants…

This paper presents findings of a study that investigated parent's views of their involvement with their children in Elementary and Secondary Educational Act (ESEA) Chapter 1 programs, in school activities, and at home. Chapter 1 students in the study were low achievers from economically disadvantaged family backgrounds in the Chicago Public…

This report evaluates program activities of Chapter 1 and migrant education in North Carolina during 1989-90. Data used in compiling the migrant education report were obtained from local project directors, the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS), the Annual Testing Program, LEA monitoring reports, and from instruments and forms devised…

This annotated bibliography on developmental learners at the postsecondary level was compiled and edited from computer searches of relevant databases as well as a manual library search. Annotations are organized according to specific types of developmental learners and specific types of developmental education programs and services. Annotations…

This annotated bibliography contains abstracts of 36 dissertations on developmental education at the postsecondary level. Citations are listed alphabetically by author and range in date from 1985 through 1992. Substantial descriptive abstracts are provided for each citation. (DB)

The Hawkins/Stafford Elementary and Secondary Education Improvement Amendment of 1988 (P.L. 100-297) promotes access to quality education for educationally deprived students and excellence for all children. School level program improvement is a major component of this legislation. This publication is a major component of this legislation. This…

The historical roots of developmental education are traced in a three-part article extending across three serial issues. "Educating All the Nation's People," by Hunter R. Boylan and William G. White, Jr., reviews the historical antecedents of developmental education, focusing on efforts in the 17th century to prepare English-speaking American…

This report documents the activities undertaken to evaluate the federally sponsored prekindergarten program for educationally disadvantaged preschoolers conducted by the Saginaw, Michigan school district. This program, funded by Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, was serving 502 children at the beginning of the 1993…

The 1993 book, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The At-Risk Student in the Open-Door College," provided a status report on community college responses to at-risk students, or students who possess academic, social, and economic problems that challenge their success in college. In addition to providing a brief history of at-risk programs and…

Early childhood education and care (educare) combined with community development presents a unique opportunity to stimulate the disadvantaged and oppressed sectors of the population towards improved economic status, increased self-confidence and self-esteem, and human development. The three main elements of this approach are the community,…