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Kennedy, Mary M. – 1985
Evaluations of Chapter 1 programs usually center on one of three questions: (1) Does the program constitute an appropriate Federal investment? (2) Does the program have the potential to benefit students? and (3) Is the program feasible enough to implement? Often, evaluators and legislators disagree over which of these questions is most important.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
Chapter 1 was created from its predecessor, Title 1, in order to give more flexibility to states and local school districts. Many of the requirements and criteria of Title 1 were relaxed in 1981 when Chapter 1 began. Districts are now required to submit written plans of their new Chapter 1 organization assuring the comparability of services…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Documentation
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Federal Programs. – 1987
Information about the utilization of Chapter 1 funds in South Carolina is presented for the years 1982-86. Tables and descriptions illustrate the impact of Chapter 1 programs and identify those projects exhibiting the greatest gains in terms of student achievement. Projects covered readiness, reading, and mathematics. The following types of data…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Schwartz, Wendy – ERIC/CUE Information Bulletin, 1987
Conference papers and recommendations on the implementation of Chapter 1 services are reviewed. Four issues of concern emerged from the research papers. These issues were reviewed by a panel of experts, and a set of recommendations was developed for more effective and prudent application of Chapter 1 principles and funding. These recommendations…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment
Mizell, M. Hayes – 1981
This paper presents guidelines on the role that Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) can play in implementing projects under Chapter I of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, which replaces Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as of July, 1982. Under Chapter I, school districts are no longer required to establish PACs that…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This report presents the findings of a survey of 51 State Directors of the Chapter 1 compensatory education program taken for the purpose of gathering a current database of information analyzing the effectiveness of implementation of the Chapter 1 program, as amended by the Hawkins-Stafford School Improvement Amendments of 1988. The survey…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
A study was done to assess implementation of the Chapter 1 program improvement provisions of the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988. Chapter 1 is the largest federal education program for educationally deprived school children, and the Hawkins-Stafford Act was designed to ensure that individual schools…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Burke, Art – 1991
This paper presents a general model that state and local educational agencies can follow in implementing Chapter 1 requirements for student program improvement. The model follows Chapter 1 statute and regulations, focuses efforts at program improvement on the educational needs of individual students, and is general enough that it can be adapted to…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Government Role
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Accountability and Assessment. – 1992
This paper describes: the development and implementation of Schoolwide Projects (SWPs) in the School District of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania); evaluation models permitted by Chapter 1 regulation and policy; ways these models were used in Philadelphia and results that were obtained; and approaches that are sensitive to the effects of SWPs. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1988
The major purpose of this inquiry is to examine the impact of Chapter 1 services on the School District of Philadelphia since the inception of the program in 1965-66. In addition, the study provides an overview of the Chapter 1 program's impact as the school district's largest and most long-standing remediation program. More specifically, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Coppola, Mary Allison – 1991
This study was conducted to identify a difference between preschool teachers' and school-based administrators' perceptions of critical issues and the numerical ranking assigned to those issues in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' (North Carolina) Chapter 1 Preschool Program. The study tested three hypotheses, and sought to ascertain what teachers…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Attitudes
Farrar, Eleanor; And Others – 1986
This report presents findings from a study of state and local administration of Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. The report is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 presents an overview of the history of Title 1/Chapter 1 and the major conclusions of the study. Chapter 2 describes current administrative practices and…
Descriptors: Administration, Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Educationally Disadvantaged
Rowan, Brian; And Others – 1986
As one of five field studies in the National Assessment of Chapter 1, this project studied the design and operations of the Chapter 1 program at the point of service delivery. Examination of the program at 24 schools revealed the following: (1) inflationary pressure on Chapter 1 budgets affected design decisions among schools; (2) cross-site…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid

Policy Studies Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
This volume summarizes the third year of the 3-year Study of Chapter 1 Implementation and addresses how schools have responded to the changes in Chapter 1 created by the Hawkins-Stafford Amendments of 1988. Results are summarized of nationally representative surveys, collected during 1991-92 and the third year of Hawkins-Stafford implementation,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Kirst, Michael W. – 1987
In the 20 years since the major Federal program for the disadvantaged began, surprisingly little has changed from its original vision. It is now time to question some of the basic policies of Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act in view of the change in conceptions about the Federal role and the recent state and local…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid