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Arneklev, Bruce L. – 1977
This evaluation report for the 1976-77 Tacoma Public Schools Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) program is organized around the six priority needs and eleven related objectives which were specified in the applications for funds. Each need and objective is listed along with related data. Conclusions about objective attainment are made in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
System Development Corp., Santa Monica, CA. – 1977
This paper evaluates the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Basic and Pilot Project Grant Programs. Among the major questions addressed in the evaluation were: What kinds of students participate in the programs, what kinds of districts and schools receive support, what are the funding patterns, how are the funds translated into services, how…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Pilot Projects, Program Descriptions
Detroit Public Schools, MI. – 1976
In 1975 the City of Detroit Public Schools were ordered by the United States District Court to improve educational services in order to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. To this end, the school system obtained Emergency School Aid Act and State monies to fund four educational components: reading and communication skills, inservice…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Desegregation Methods, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Elwell, Richard – American Education, 1976
School districts that try to make desegregation a step that improves their education program find the extra effort required results in increased costs. The government's Emergency School Aid Act was evaluated to see how it could reduce minority group isolation and the effects of such isolation. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Minority Groups
Download full textCrawley, Nora; Taylor, Myrtice – 1977
This paper describes and evaluates a pilot project funded under the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA). The pilot project was subdivided into two parts: the Camp Learning Center program, and the Cultural Adjustment Program. Among the general goals of the Camp Learning Center were to improve mathematics and reading skills through a relevant and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Non English Speaking
Encampment for Citizens, Inc., New York, NY.
This manual describes a project funded through the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) and conducted by the Encampment for Citizenship, an organization designed to help young people from different racial, ethnic, social, geographic, and economic backgrounds to understand each other and explore their citizenship responsibilities. The ESAA human…
Descriptors: Ethnic Bias, High Schools, Human Relations Programs, Program Descriptions
Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Div. of Equal Educational Opportunities. – 1976
A group of 17, integrated children's television series developed under the Emergency School Aid Act are available to commercial and noncommercial broadcast users. All ESAA-TV programs are available for school uses without usage right fees. Several are aimed at teaching children about various specific North American ethnic groups. There are series…
Descriptors: Blacks, Childrens Television, Cultural Awareness, Educational Television
Bortin, Barbara H. – 1982
The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Title VI provided funds to assist in the voluntary desegregation of the Milwaukee Public Schools through a variety of magnet special school programs which would attract area-wide or district-wide enrollment. These special programs are located in elementary, middle, and senior high schools throughout the city.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Los Nietos Elementary School District, CA. – 1977
The Los Nietos Basic Skills Program was the first program of computer assisted instruction funded by the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA). The system initially supported 17 typewriter-style terminals, but the number was later increased to 24. Because of software problems, the system changed companies and the courses changed to the following:…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs
Los Nietos Elementary School District, CA. – 1977
The Los Nietos School District in Los Angeles was the first school in the United States that had its basic skills program supported through intensive use of computers. Through fundings under the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), the program is embarking on its third year. The system initially supported 17 typewriter-style terminals, but before the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs
Kimbrough, Jackie; Hyman, James – 1978
The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) of 1972 authorizes grants or contracts to nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support the LEAs' efforts to desegregate or to reduce minority group isolation or its effects. The NPO program is a small component of ESAA which provides financial assistance to community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Desegregation Methods
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) was designed to provide local educational agencies with financial assistance to eliminate minority group segregation, to prevent minority group isolation, and to aid children who have been educationally disadvantaged because of isolation. An overview of the programs funded under the ESAA is provided in this…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation
Lee, Ann M.; And Others – 1975
"Project Assist," conducted in two elementary schools and one junior high school, tested the hypothesis that students in schools with trained instructional reading aides will read better than students in schools with either untrained aides or no aides. This report presents data on the project gathered during the 1974-1975 school year.…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Royster, Eugene C.; And Others – 1979
This paper is a summary report of the "Study of the Emergency School Aid Act Magnet School Program" which was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of magnet school programs as a strategy in school desegregation. The representative sample of eighteen schools used in the study and their community contexts are described, and the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1981
This volume summarizes the results of evaluation and testing activities carried out in the Austin, Texas, Independent School District (AISD) during the 1980-81 school year. The text consists of five parts: Section one highlights important findings in the areas of Title I Schoolwide Projects, compensatory programs, early childhood programs,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education
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