School programs and contextual characteristics that differentiate between successful and nonsuccessful elementary schools funded under the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) are examined in this study. It was designed to build upon some of the tentative findings of the 1974-1975 indepth study, in which a number of program and contextual components…

This report focuses on a set of supplemental analyses that were performed on portions of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) evaluation data. The goal of these analyses was to explore additional relationships in the data that might help to inform program policy, to confirm and/or further explicate some of the findings reported earlier, and to put…

Technical reports of individual Title I project evaluations conducted during the 1975-76 school year are presented. The volume contains extensive information about each project's rationale, expected outcomes, mode of operation, previous evaluative findings, current implementation, and attainment of its objectives. The Title I evaluations contained…

Twelve compensatory education programs that service elementary and secondary school students in California are described in this report. The programs operate in districts that are eligible for Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I funds. Each brief description includes background information, a discussion of program components, and the…

School desegregation can no longer continue to be an exclusive black and white issue. With demographers predicting that Hispanics will be the largest minority in the U.S. at the turn of the century, educators are facing the difficult challenge of integrating this minority into the mainstream of American education. Despite a quarter century of…

This document contains a synthesized review of current State subcounty allocation procedures and assesses the impact and feasibility of four alternative allocation strategies. The review indicates that in the current subcounty allocation process, the United States Office of Education (USOE) uses a single formula to calculate county entitlements…

This paper considers the following methods for altering ESEA Title I to improve compensatory education: increasing participation of secondary students; designing longitudinal projects that follow children through the grades; encouraging evaluations to follow children longitudinally, and to assess sustained effects; experimenting with projects to…

This program was designed to improve reading skills and to provide intensive remediation for students in grades six through nine. Specialized materials and equipment were provided by Educational Development Laboratories (EDL). The EDL Reading Laboratory utilized the Learning 100 program, a multi-modality developmental and remedial program. Small…

THE PROGRESS OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT (ESEA) TITLE I COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROJECTS IN 1,044 CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS IS SUMMARIZED IN THIS REPORT. THE FIRST SECTION GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECTS AND DISCUSSES FUND ALLOCATIONS AND SUCH PROBLEMS AS LACK OF STAFF AND THE TIGHT TIME SCHEDULE DUE TO DELAYED…

CACEP MEANS "CONTINUING ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM." THE PROJECT IS HELPING THOUSANDS OF NEGRO STUDENTS OF ST. PETERSBURG TO CLOSE THE EDUCATIONAL GAP. THE STUDENTS SPEND MORE TIME IN SCHOOL AND IN AFTER SCHOOL AND SATURDAY SESSIONS UNDER THE COMPETENT INSTRUCTION OF TEACHERS AND VOLUNTEERS. REMEDIAL WORK IS GIVEN IN NEARLY…

AS AN ADDITION TO THE PROGRESS REPORT OF STUDY AND ACTION RELATED TO CIVIL RIGHTS PROBLEMS AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS, THE REPORT LISTED THE ACTIONS AND ITEMS DISCUSSED IN BOARD MEETINGS AND COMMITTEES RELATED SPECIFICALLY TO CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS FROM JANUARY, 1962 TO MARCH, 1964. SUGGESTIONS TO THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE…

THE EARLY TRAINING PROJECT ATTEMPTED TO IMPROVE THE INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING AND PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT OF CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN THROUGH SPECIAL EXPERIENCES IN THE 15- OR 24-MONTHS PRECEDING FIRST GRADE AND IN THE FIRST YEAR OF SCHOOL. THE PROCEDURES OF THE PROJECT CONSISTED OF TWO TRAINING SEQUENCES. THE FIRST SEQUENCE INVOLVED TWO…

ISRAEL CAN ACT AS A LABORATORY TO TEST WHETHER WESTERN CULTURE HAS THE UNDERSTANDING AND SKILLS TO INTEGRATE A RADICALLY DIFFERENT, "DEPRIVED" CULTURE INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF SOCIETY. ORIENTAL JEWS, A MINORITY WHO WILL SOON BECOME A MAJORITY GROUP, HAVE A CULTURE WHICH DOES NOT FIT INTO A MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. THEIR PATRIARCHAL…

AN EVALUATION WAS MADE OF AFTER-SCHOOL REMEDIAL CENTERS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. THE CENTERS WERE STAFFED BY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOL PERSONNEL. DATA ON THE PUBLIC AND NONPUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS RECEIVING THE TUTORING WERE COLLECTED THROUGH INTERVIEWS AND OBSERVER REPORTS. THE INVESTIGATOR FOUND THAT THE CENTERS WERE INITIALLY SUCCESSFUL IN…