Provides an overview of the facets involved in persistence of developmental students at the college level. (IRT)

Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…

Part of the special section, EDUCATION IN THE GHETTO, prepared by Saturday Review and the Committee for Economic Development to explore the problems of the education of the disadvantaged.

After a study determined that elementary students spent more than one-fifth of each day in noninstructional activities, the Austin Independent School District initiated changes that have increased the amount of time students spend on instruction and also increased student test accuracy. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the findings of the Westinghouse Report and suggests they be considered a limited and partial description of the effects of using Head Start to educate children. (DR)

Presented at the summer 1969 seminar on Aesthetics in Education held at the Boston University School of Education. (EJS)

Internal validity of Title I evaluation models is discussed. Model A is theoretically vulnerable to threats due to maturation, instrumentation, statistical regression, and various interactions with selection; Model B is free from threats if properly implemented; Model C is threatened by selection x maturation interactions and instrumentation. (RL)

Learning assistance meets the demands of rigorous college courses through highly varied activities and approaches. The historic role of learning assistance in the larger scope of U.S. higher education is significant though sometimes low profile. Learning assistance bridges access for a more diverse student body. From students' perspectives, it…

This article reviews educational initiatives of state and federal government that were designed to remedy the effects of racial segregation on Black public school students in the United States after the famous "Brown v. Board of Education" decisions. Several policy and legal initiatives are reviewed, including school desegregation,…

This review and analysis of a report by the National Institute of Education on compensatory education addresses the question of allocation of funds under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It describes the Title I formula and its effectiveness in allocating federal education funds, and analyzes some alternatives to the current…

This document is an edited transcript of a preschool educator's criticism of the Westinghouse Report on the federal Head Start program. The following points are made: (1) evaluations should be planned at the time the program is planned and this was not the case with the Westinghouse Report, and (2) an evaluation program should measure the factors…

A questionnaire concerning teacher characteristics and compensatory reading programs is presented. (CK)

A questionnaire designed to provide information on individual students to whom compensatory reading instruction is rendered is presented. (CK)