A report from the School Choice Demonstration Project examines issues concerning the funding formula used for the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). It finds that the program generates a net saving to taxpayers in Wisconsin but imposes a significant fiscal burden on taxpayers in Milwaukee. However, these findings depend significantly on how…

In the summer of 1961 migrant children took part in an experimental education program held in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The unique factor in this program was the utilization of local school children as catalytic agents in the classrooms. The migrant children were given 2 four-week programs which ran concurrently with the general 8-week summer…

The School Attendance Demonstration Project (SADP) was designed to improve school attendance among teenagers receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits in San Diego County, California. An impact study was conducted from March 10, 1996 to March 10, 1998, to evaluate the effects of providing social services and imposing…

Afterschool programs offer an important avenue for enhancing educational opportunities. Federal, state, and local educational authorities increasingly see them as environments to improve attitudes toward school, achievement, and academic performance (Fashola, 2002; Hollister, 2003) with higher levels of student participation and engagement in…

Noting that many children in the United States are not well nourished despite the recent economic boom, the state of Maryland began the Maryland Meals for Achievement (MMFA) program, a demonstration project to see if providing a classroom breakfast free to all students can improve student nutrition and academic achievement. This interim report…

Absence data from the Follow Through program in 18 Philadelphia public schools over the 1974-75 school year are presented according to grade, model and total program. The report, covering grades K-3, examines both overall absence patterns and differences in absence patterns of pupils with and without previous Head Start or equivalent experience.…

This report evaluates a demonstration project attempted for the first time in New York City schools in 1969 which was designed to remediate absenteeism in the high schools. The project was to provide individualized attention and concentrated services for 16-year-old and older chronic absentees and their parents. Other objectives included the…

The present study compared the developmental effects of two curricula (University of Hawaii Preschool Language Curriculum (UHPLC) and a general enrichment curriculum); two parent programs (one emphasizing the mother's role in fostering her child's cognitive development, P1, and one focusing on more general concepts of child development, p2); and…

The project involving one elementary and one junior high school in each of the six regions of the District of Columbia School System was designed to service approximately 300 socioeconomically disadvantaged students who have been identified as demonstrating or having potential for superior academic achievement. Evaluation of the project focused on…

The Title I math program in Des Moines served 1483 students in grades 1-8, during the school year 1980-81. During this same year, the elementary program was identified by the National Dissemination Review Board as an exemplary program, indicating that it is effective and able to be replicated in other districts. The program had an impact on…

Each of the 1989 dropout prevention programs funded under the New York City Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) Demonstration and Replication Program was successful in meeting some of its objectives, and all of the programs were viewed as valuable by principals and teachers. The program encourages the design and implementation of…

This is the national evaluation of the PUSH for Excellence Project, a Federally funded educational demonstration program carried out in schools in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Chattanooga, Memphis, and Kansas City. The report presents the latest findings on the status of program implementation, and provides diagnostic information that PUSH-EXCEL…

This report describes an exploratory evaluative assessment of the first year of 2 alternative public schools for 117 chronically disruptive, committed, and/or non-attending students (grades 6-12) in Georgia. The CrossRoads program is intended to provide students with the social services, individualized instruction, and/or transitions to other…

Designed to be a source of programming information, this document summarizes the educational efforts by Wisconsin's sixteen Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) districts to help meet consumer and homemaking education needs of disadvantaged groups. The project supported by each district is described in the following format: project…

This executive summary presents evaluation findings and conclusions from a 4-year study of a demonstration project focusing on a school-based and school-linked interprofessional case management approach to dropout prevention. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was administered by the Center for the Study and Teaching of…