The Summer Opportunity To Accelerate Reading (S.O.A.R.) program is the Title I elementary summer school of the Austin Independent School District (AISD), Texas. The S.O.A.R. program provides early intervention to accelerate literacy learning for students entering grades 1-3 who are at risk of retention or are below grade level. In its second year…

This study focused on the extent to which nontraditional instructional strategies targeted by a high school in its Title I schoolwide plan were observable in classrooms. The study was conducted in an inner-city high school where 76% of the students are classified as economically deprived. Data were collected through classroom observations in 18 of…

The No Child Left Behind Act required states and districts to begin offering supplemental educational services in the 2002-03 school year to students from low-income families attending Title I schools that had been identified for improvement for two years or more. This brief is based on a larger study that examined the first year of implementation…

Some of the problems confronting the counseling psychologist in high risk programs are considered here, including approaches to counseling, remediation and administrative issues. (Author)

Review of the Head Start program by the former director of the Office of Child Development. Discussion of what compensatory programs can and should achieve. (ST)

Reviews recent projects on the education of immigrants within the framework of the six suggestions for research made by the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigrations; e.g. the effects on children of various educational arrangements for immigrants; methods of teaching race relations in schools; and others. (Author/JM)

Author evaluates school purposes, curricula, instructional strategies, and administrative policies as potential tools for counteracting the environment. (Author)

Author reviews the past decade in early childhood education and proposes strategies for the future. (MB)

A scholarship program for promising disadvantaged students in private secondary schools was evaluated through interviews, faculty reports, and testing in a two year follow-up of 82 boys. (Author)

This article describes alternatives currently being proposed by some Federal Congressional and Administration officials in response to growing dissatisfaction with the efforts of public schools in aiding educationally disadvantaged children. Legislation is being readied that would let private companies tackle the problem. (JH)

The notion that public schools are a powerful engine of social reform is central to the ideologies of compensatory education and racially balanced schools as means for achieving integration. Today, all questions of property, income, and occupational distribution are seen to be answered by increased access to meritocratic competition. (DE)