The purpose of this report is to review sources of information that the Department of Education may want to draw on in its evaluation of the compensatory education program. Focus is placed primarily on information that can be used to describe children in poverty, to assess changes in the size and composition of this population, and to relate…

This report synthesizes findings of five conferences funded by the National Institute of Education (NIE) to plan new Follow Through research. In particular, conference discussions focused on the notion of systematic change; time-on-task as the most promising strategy for success; and encouragement of principal and teacher support for implementing…

The nineteenth annual summary of activities provided through Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act and its Title I predecessor, this report includes statistics for fiscal 1984, participation trends, instructional impact, expenditure and staffing patterns, parent involvement, and five-year trends. After a brief discussion of…

In this compensatory education field study of the relationships between certain instructional practices, teacher characteristics, and student achievement in and attitude toward reading and math at the first and third grade levels, the major focus was on individualized instructional practices and instructional settings. A purposive sample of…

The relationships between the grade level of entry into Title I treatment, the need for subsequent treatment, and third grade reading achievement were investigated. In addition, the relationships between pattern of Title I treatment, third grade achievement, and Kuhlmann-Anderson Verbal IQ were studied. The pattern of Title I entry is defined as…

Using data from the Westinghouse Learning Corporation Study, the effect of the Head Start Program on cognitive achievement in preschool children is examined. The use of statistical models to evaluate programs which non randomly assign children to "treatment" and "control" groups is discussed. Necessary conditions for unbiased…

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…

The eight popular commercial reading programs examined in this study were selected on the basis of their use with compensatory education students and the fact that they represent different instructional approaches. The study examined how readers are taught to break the letter/sound code, what correspondences are taught, and how correspondences are…

This 1975-76 annual report on the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP) in New York State summarizes the enrollment, funding, and activities of the institutions funded through HEOP. HEOP students continued to show that they were academically disadvantaged by their high school averages and SAT scores. Ninety-one percent of the newly admitted…

In the Higher Education Opportunity Program, which operated in 72 independent colleges and universities in New York State in 1976-77, enrollment figures showed that 6,227 students enrolled in full and part time courses during the year, with 4,948 attending four year schools and 846 at two year schools. Of the 6,227 enrollees 2,144 were freshmen.…

A number of claims made by Bereiter and Engelmann, two of the strongest proponents of the verbal-deprivation hypothesis, are examined in light of data gathered during a longitudinal study of two children acquiring Black English Vernacular. The "giant-word syndrome" and its proposed concomitants of absence of developmental stages, deviant…

Several sets of data are analyzed, all of which demonstrate that estimates of achievement rates can differ dramatically when different time periods are used for an evaluation of a compensatory education program. Specifically, it is found that including the summer months in an evaluation often considerably reduces estimates of achievement and hence…

Paper presented to the Presidents' and Deans' Workshop at the North Central Association Annual Meeting, March 25, 1969.

This paper presents guidelines on the role that Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) can play in implementing projects under Chapter I of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, which replaces Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as of July, 1982. Under Chapter I, school districts are no longer required to establish PACs that…

A survey of California community colleges was conducted in 1980-81 to determine the extent to which compensatory and developmental courses currently fulfill requirements for the associate degree (AA) and to determine how many of the compensatory courses were actually used by students to satisfy AA requirements. Responses to the survey were…