As one of five field studies in the National Assessment of Chapter 1, this project studied the design and operations of the Chapter 1 program at the point of service delivery. Examination of the program at 24 schools revealed the following: (1) inflationary pressure on Chapter 1 budgets affected design decisions among schools; (2) cross-site…

In order to improve desegregation of the elementary schools, and the low achievement level of elementary schools with high concentrations of poor and minority students, the Massachusetts Board of Education placed a coordinated approach to improving urban schools first among its objectives. The following educational objectives were set for each…

The School District of the City of Saginaw, Michigan operates a compensatory education delivery system in reading and mathematics consisting of two programs, elementary and secondary Academic Achievement (A2). The goal of the programs is to improve the reading and mathematics achievement of a designated number of educationally disadvantaged…

The 1987-88 school year was the ninth year that students in the State Bilingual and Migrant programs were assessed in reading and mathematics using a norm referenced test. This is the second year that the new California Achievement Test (CAT) Form E, normed in the Spring of 1985, has been used for program evaluation purposes. The locally adopted…

A variety of federal, state, and local programs provide public financial or in-kind support of private schools. This paper explores the impact of selected federal programs on minority employment patterns and focuses on the factors accounting for variation in racial staffing patterns among public, Catholic, and private schools. The study concludes…

The Reading Improvement Project in the Cleveland Public Schools, evaluated here, provides individualized instruction to pupils in grades 1-3 who are functioning at or below the 33rd percentile on the Stanford Diagnostic Comprehension subtest or the Metropolitan Readiness Test. The project supplements regular reading instruction by providing…

The Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District Chapter I Mathematics Program served 1,110 students in grades 2-8. Chapter I Math students in grades two through six achieved gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills from pre to posttesting. Scores on these tests are reported using a metric known as the Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE). The…

The socioeconomic future of the United States, and the State of California in particular, is linked to improving the educational achievement of its growing minority populations. Demographic trends and a fundamental shift in international trade will result in a national population that is one-third non-white by the year 2010, with a new emphasis on…

A Head Start education coordinator who supervised personnel associated with nine child care centers implemented a practicum intervention designed to provide a program of cognitive and affective learning experiences that would help teachers and parents nurture prosocial behaviors in preschool children. A total of 23 teachers and teacher aides, 222…

Students in the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools' Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1 program made greater achievement gains while in the program than when they were not, and those gains are probably attributable to the extent that Chapter 1 students engage in positive behaviors rather than to the curricular quality of the programs.…

Because the transition of Head Start children into elementary school can be a stressful time for children and parents, Head Start implemented a national transition initiative. This study examined the transition efforts of a responding sample of 108 Head Start programs (out of a stratified random sample of 144) and 15 additional Head Start programs…

The Chapter 1 Early Childhood Education (Preschool) Program in The Portland Public Schools (Oregon) provides educationally disadvantaged children with the experiences needed to ameliorate the disadvantages as they enter kindergarten. This year-end evaluation report contains both the statistical report forms with student test results and a…

This collection of reports evaluates ten Title I programs which were implemented in the Cleveland (Ohio) public and parochial schools during the 1980-81 school year. The following projects are discussed: (1) Child Development Project; (2) Children in Institutions Project; (3) Cleveland Fundamental School Basic Skills Reinforcement Project; (4)…

Several evaluations reports of Title I programs and activities conducted in Wichita, Kansas, elementary schools during 1980-81 are presented in this document. Compensatory education activities described include corrective reading programs, elementary mathematics programs, institutional programs for neglected and delinquent children,…

The Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) Area Public Schools' Compensatory Education Division undertook a 2-year process evaluation of the effectiveness of an early intervention strategy for low reading readiness kindergarten children enrolled in Title I programs. The first year of the evaluation sought to determine whether children exposed to this…