The first major controversy of New York City's new Community School District System has revolved around the allocation of funds available under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The uproar started when the Board of Education announced the allocations for the districts in the last moments before the 1970-71 year was to begin.…

This manual evaluates and describes an educational day care model after 1 year of development. The model was designed for 3- and 5-year-old disadvantaged youngsters who exhibit low scores on intelligence, linguistic, and perceptual tests. Model objectives were based on the following criteria: (1) effectiveness of the curriculum with children, (2)…

The following topics are the subject of capsule summaries of Upward Bound (UB) program techniques that make up the major portion of this book, having been compiled from information submitted by project staff, consultants, and others who have seen Upward Bound in action during the past four years: recruiting students; curriculum, including…

The Title I E.S.E.A. evaluation for 1969-70 focuses on the objectives of the individual academic and supportive service projects included in the total Title I program. Twenty-five projects were evaluated during that academic year. The Elementary Academic Projects included: Language Development, Reading Center, Special Kindergarten, and English as…

Head Start was conceived not only as an intervention program with children, but as a total effort of intervention in the disadvantaged family. Head Start seeks to influence the child not only directly through the classroom program, but indirectly through the parents. It is, therefore, important to determine if parent participation in Head Start…

Two conferences held in Florida in 1968 to prepare consultants to work with in-service professional and para-professional personnel serving migrant children in Florida, led to this analysis of consultant, consultee, and professional staff reactions. Characteristics of a consultant and when and how to use his services are outlined. It is shown how…

Documents on the subject of Mexican American education which have been indexed and abstracted in "Research in Education" are cited in this bibliography. Publications dealing with research findings and developments in bilingual compensatory education for the Spanish-speaking are included. The majority of the 156 documents cited were published since…

This report describes the children, their families, and staff members who have participated in Project Head Start from its inception in the summer of 1965 through 1967. The information has been compiled from tabulations of data prepared by the Bureau of Census and offers a general picture of the populations served to date and where possible…

Mexican-American school children are handicapped by poor academic performance and low self-esteem. This study hypothesized that reinforcement and reward techniques used to promote self-esteem should include activities relevant to both Mexican and American cultures. Specific predictions were that (1) the most effective treatment would be…

The first problem addressed here is our definition of the concept development-planning. The second problem is our definition of the disadvantaged today and in the future, that is, for whom is the planning effort directed. The third problem is the presentation of hypotheses and illustrations from various fields of activity, in order to demonstrate…

The major thrust of 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, or Project SPEEDY (Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth), has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language development. While the emphasis of federal programs has been to concentrate funds on fewer recipients,…

The community college, its faculty, philosophy, compensatory education programs, occupational education programs, human and health services, and evaluation of occupational programs are the subjects of the six papers that comprise this book. The papers are: (1) Pennsylvania Community College Faculty: Career Patterns and Educational Issues, by…

This monograph, a Planned Variation study, examines the impact of Project Follow Through (FT) on three sets of analyses, each of which approaches parent data exclusively, and assumes the relationship of parental attitudes and behaviors to pupil cognitive and affective growth. The first set of analyses summarizes the initial demographic…

As is enunciated by its policy guidelines, funds for compensatory education are being used to provide a diversity of intervention experiences for disadvantaged children. Difficulty in recognizing these implementation practices and outcomes has arisen because of a more popular, but narrow, view of compensatory education. Instead of attempting to…

It is only in recent years that educational evaluation has become institutionalized. The present spate of reporting and the accepted belief in the necessity to evaluate can be traced to the 1965 passage of the massive Elementary and Secondary Education Act--the first major social legislation to mandate project reporting. This case study in policy…