This handbook, designed for members of Title I parent advisory councils, explains the Title I program and serves as a guide to organizing and conducting parent councils. The first chapter contains a brief summary of Title I history and intent. Chapter two explains laws and amendments relating to parent advisory councils. The third chapter offers…

The Follow Through program epitomizes many of the successes and failures of federally funded compensatory education. The program, designed to "follow through" in grades kindergarten through three on the documented gains of disadvantaged children graduating from Head Start, emerged as a planned variation experiment that systematically…

This report determines the congruence between the designs of the ESEA Title I and Impact Aid Programs and the actual implemented products, and also assesses the worth of these programs in terms of their outcomes. The aims and purposes of programs relating to the strengthening of verbal (including bilingual) and mathematical skills among elementary…

A LARGE NUMBER OF NEW JERSEY PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS ARE AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS WHICH LIMIT THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION. THREE FACTORS AFFECTING THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD ARE THAT HIS FAMILY IS ECONOMICALLY POOR, HIS HOME LIFE PROVIDES LITTLE IF ANY STIMULATION TO HIS INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, AND HE AND…

THIS STUDY WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF AN ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ON A SELECTED GROUP OF FIRST GRADERS. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER CHILDREN EXPERIENCING THE EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS SHOWED GREATER GROWTH IN INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT AND GREATER USE OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE THAN A CONTROL GROUP AT THE END OF ONE SCHOOL…

Seventeen nationally normed, standardized achievement tests were judged appropriate by the Illinois Title I Test Review Committee for use with Model A-1 in evaluation of Illinois Title I programs. They are the California Achievement Tests, CIRCUS, Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Iowa Tests of Educational Development,…

This report covers three aspects of the Follow Through program in Philadelphia: pupil absence, pupil continuance, and teacher continuance. Data are presented by grade, model, and total program for the 1975-1976, 1976-1977, and 1977-1978 school years. Patterns of attendance were identified for the total pupil population and two subgroups: pupils…

THIS REBUTTAL TO AN ARTICLE ARGUING THAT COMPENSATORY EDUCATION TREATS ONLY THE RESULTS AND NOT THE CAUSES OF DISADVANTAGEMENT MAINTAINS THAT THE SCHOOL PROGRAMS NEVERTHELESS ARE INSTRUMENTAL IN IMPROVING PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. IT POINTS OUT THAT ALTHOUGH AN UNHEALTHY NATIONAL ECONOMY CAN CAUSE MUCH INDIVIDUAL POVERTY AND…

Ninety-four citations focusing on the education of Mexican American migrant children in the Southwest are presented. All references were published from 1960 to 1969. An addendum lists 52 related publications, some of which were written prior to 1960, that have direct reference to the education of Mexican Americans. Some citations include…

This publication contains the evaluation forms sent by the Florida State Department of Education to school administrators, staffs of other agencies, similar staffs in other states, and parents of disadvantaged children served by Title I programs. Sample responses are given and results summarized. A section is included on in-patient treatment of…

This study examines a number of questions surrounding the distribution of Title I aid and state compensatory education aid. The extent to which the two types of aid are complementary and their effect on the equalizing thrust of the state general aid are also examined. There are four major states that are studied: Florida, New Jersey, New York, and…

Evaluation services to be provided during 1975-76 to projects funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I are listed in this annual booklet. For each project, the following information is provided: goals to be assessed, evaluation techniques (design), and evaluation milestones. Regular term and summer term projects reported on…

Data gathered by the Educational Testing Service from 57,694 children in 264 schools were reanalyzed using the instructional group as the unit of analysis. Second-grade and sixth-grade children were tested in the fall and spring with the Metropolitan Achievement Test and either the Cooperative Primary Test or the Sequential Test of Educational…

The program described in this paper, based on the language experience approach, considers students' needs, the first of which is immediate success and the second of which is perception of the value of improving their communication skills. In the first unit, the student composes a story or a report on tape and in the second unit, the student…