A project was conducted to help fifty-one academically disadvantaged students in grade 10 to gain a greater awareness of their own interests and abilities, career alternatives, and job responsibilities. Students were selected who lacked one or more of the following characteristics: awareness of employment opportunities, job skills necessary to…

This paper reviews research on parent education programs in which training efforts were focused on low income mothers. Three model strategies for training low income parents are identified: (1) individual consultation, in which a parent consultant works on a one-to-one basis with the parent-child dyad, usually in the home; (2) group consultation,…

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…

This paper traces the history of a series of early studies designed to identify and document unusually successful compensatory education projects. One of the major characteristics of the early studies is that they were based upon review and analysis of existing literature. Although they used similar data bases they varied considerably in…

This segment of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model discusses findings of analyses of achievement test data which have been adjusted to take into consideration the preschool experience of children in three Follow Through cohorts. These analyses serve as a supplement to analyses presented in Volume IV-A of…

Four products were developed during the second year of the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) cost effectiveness study for California community colleges. This project report presents: (1) a revised cost analysis form for state-level reporting of institutional program effectiveness data and per-student costs by EOPS program category…

The pilot evaluative study of the use and effectiveness of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Youth Nutrition Lesson Series focused upon its effectiveness in producing nutrition behavior change (nutrition knowledge, nutrition attitudes, and food intake) based upon the concepts, values, and principles presented in lessons 1-6…

To measure the effects of group programed instruction on aspects of reading in Head Start children, the Sullivan Associates Readiness in Language Arts series was used with approximately 15 children in each of five Head Start classes. An equal number served as controls. Pretests and posttest were Lee-Clark Readiness Test, Murphy-Durrell Analysis,…

This evaluation of 110 projects in which 17,298 disadvantaged children of the State of Hawaii participated in 1967 is based on professional observations, standardized test scores, and teacher-made tests. The report covers the following topics in the operation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I projects: (1) major achievements,…

This study is directed to the question of whether an intervention strategy based on relatively concentrated amounts of basic education and on-the-job training is sufficient to make it possible for a large, non-union, private firm to assimilate disadvantaged females into its regular, blue-collar work force. It is concluded that the National…

At the urging of the governor of Iowa, private business and industry plus interested citizens organized and funded four Project Iowa Training and Retraining of Youth (Project I-TRY) programs in many Iowa cities during the summers of 1967 and 1968. In assessing the effectiveness of the programs in reaching and selecting disadvantaged youth,…

A survey was conducted by the Educational Testing Service to evaluate the impact of federally supported college programs for disadvantaged students. The purposes were to identify successful programs and learn what factors were associated with effectiveness, using student-centered criteria of success, satisfaction and continuance in school. A…

A description and evaluation of 1973-74 programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, for the Chattanooga Public School System in Tennessee, are contained in this document. The main project components are reading and mathematics. The major problem associated with the 1973-74 Title I programs was a result of the…

This study examined the effectiveness of intervention stategy in reducing poverty among children from low income families in an all-black community. Studied were 68 participants of a 1947 neighborhood project in Columbia, South Carolina. The project included an emphasis on language skills and intellectual growth, involvement of parents and…

The study evaluated the effectiveness of three instructional methods in promoting speech sound discrimination and reading achievement over a 3-year period. (Author)