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…

The project sought to determine whether certain National Institute of Education (NIE)-funded career education programs provided for personalization of instruction and whether they avoided tracking students into narrowly constrained areas. The first chapter discusses individualized instruction in historical and current perspective and presents…

The Talking Typewriter program has operated in the Cleveland Public Schools as a strategy to improve the reading skills of identified fourth and fifth grade pupils in Title I schools. A responsive environment, augmented with selected materials, special teaching techniques, and the availability of trained staff formed the core of an instructional…

Described are various aspects of a program to train school personnel to meet the special needs of mainstreamed children. The staff development program is discussed in terms of program responsibility, strategy, and steps taken by the principal in the implementation procedure. The four stages of Project RETAP, a special education in-service program…

Evaluated was the effectiveness of the Portage Home Visit (PHV) Parent Involvement Program in improving the IQ's, and motor, language, adaptive and personal-social developmental skills of 36 multiply handicapped developmentally delayed preschoolers in rural Wisconsin during 36 consecutive weekly sessions. Home trainers provided parents with…

Over a period of three years, the National Consortium for Humanizing Education worked with teachers and students in two states to test hypotheses drawn from a model in which student outcomes (including good mental health) were seen as the results of a learning process occurring between individuals rather than as the product of an institutionalized…

The 9-month school year with a 3-month summer vacation had its origin in our earlier agrarian life. Today's teacher shortages, overcrowded schools, and pressures to learn demand extensions of the school year. This publication analyzes five programs: (1) a staggered-vacation school year for all, (2) a full 48-week school year for all, (3) a…

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,…

Described is the Follow Through academic program based on the principles and materials (DISTAR) of S. Engelmann and W. Becker, and reported are results of program use over a 4-year period with 9,152 primary grade children (78 percent economically disadvantaged). The program description includes teaching procedures; program objectives; class…

This directory contains comprehensive descriptions of diagnostic-prescriptive reading programs for which some success has been demonstrated in the classroom as shown by statistical evidence of significant improvement in student learning. The programs chosen do not constitute all the diagnostic-prescriptive reading programs available nor were all…

During the past several years, regional educational service agencies (RESA's) have grown in number and service. Yet very little research has been undertaken to determine what these agencies actually do, how they do what they do, and how well they do what they do. This paper is intended to make a beginning, to answer some questions about RESA's,…

During 1971-72 the State Education Department approved categorical urban aid for 297 specialized projects in 30 of the State's largest cities. There were 183 Quality Incentive Projects or grants, 83 Community Education Centers, and 31 Administrative Budgets (ABs) to administer the projects. All projects were evaluated on management and…

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…

Describes an increasingly widely-used scheme of second-chance adult education in which adult students participated in classes with traditional community college students. (EM)

Points out eight factors consistently associated with effective schools (academic focus, student participation in decision-making, etc.) and eight common problems with effective schools projects (short-term focus, unrealistic expectations, etc.). Summarizes successful projects at a K-12 village school and an urban junior high school. (JHZ)