TITLE I FUNDS TO THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO PROVIDE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE-FIFTH OF THE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PUBLIC AND NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS. EIGHTY-EIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS RECEIVE FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS WHICH AID IN REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DROPOUTS, IMPROVING READING, INCREASING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT, BETTERING…

In evaluation of the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I compensatory education programs, both the federal reporting mandate (using formal evaluation) and local needs (using informal evaluation) must be served. In Chicago Public Schools, computerized processing of standardized test scores allows the reporting requirement to be met with a…

Significant findings concerning the efficacy of individualized instruction techniques and type of instructional setting were generated by this study of Title I programs. Variables for the study were chosen because policy-makers were concerned about them and had the power to do something about them. The variables studied were individualized…

Much of this annual report of the Scottish Council for Research in Education consists of lists and reports, including names of officials, budget, titles of dissertations of Scottish university students, and titles of published articles relating to the Council. Two of these articles are included in the report. One describes methods of observing…

In the winter of 1969, the "Harvard Education Review" published an article by Arthur Jensen that suggested that racial and social class IQ differences were primarily due to hereditary factors. From the point of view of the opposition, this report reviews the controversy that ensued, including Jensen's original statements, the critics'…

The regular malaise that manifests itself in the educational evaluation community regarding its methodology, its results, its identity, could well be caused by the difference between its philosophical assumptions and those of its clients. Educational evaluation has inherited the positivist philosophical tradition through ties to American…

Several different mathematical methods for optimization of instruction are presented and compared. A way in which one of these methods might be applied to the measurement and avoidance of inequality in educational opportunity and performance is presented. Finally, it is suggested that computer-assisted instruction might provide a particularly…

The variable conceptualization process used in the analysis of data of the 1970 Compensatory Education Programs is discussed. Variables used in the process were designated as being either "univariate" or "constructed." Examples are given of the procedure used in the development of variables. Procedural issues handled in the process of…

This paper is divided into three parts: compensatory education and its future, the kind of teacher education which will be used to support these compensatory trends, and a bibliography selection to provide background for both sections. The first part reviews the present condition, developments of compensatory education, the implications of future…

The model which follows was developed for use in monitoring and reviewing compensatory education programs in the Santa Clara School District. (Author)

Describes the California State Preschool Program and its success with disadvantaged children. (MF)