This volume of research papers presents ideas, information, and consensus statements on compensatory education effectiveness by some of the country's leading education researchers. Section one presents a summary of proceedings of the meeting at which the researchers submitted their papers to the Conference Panel and staff of the National…

Using data from a national study of Chapter 1 implementation, this study describes the Chapter 1 teaching force. Over the 1991-92 school year, surveys were completed by a nationally representative sample of Chapter 1 teachers and aides, and regular classroom teachers in elementary schools, middle schools, and secondary schools. This study focuses…

Critics of the Federal Title I and Chapter 1 compensatory education programs to increase the academic skills of disadvantaged children suggest that the return for the Federal investment has been small and that designers have not created programs that work. When the compensatory education programs were conceived, their promise was immense. During…