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…

The articles of this special issue commemorate 25 years of the Chapter 1 compensatory education program. With the enactment of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 the Federal government became widely and directly involved in precollegiate education. By 1991, under the Hawkins Stafford Act of 1988, the initiative, renamed…