This report evaluates California's ESEA Title I compensatory education program for 1969-70 and disseminates the results of activities designed to strengthen the educational programs for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. While most of these activities were planned for those disadvantaged youngsters regularly enrolled in grades K-6,…

Since its inception in 1963, the Homework Helper Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Act, has provided an effective vehicle for the challenging of traditional theory in regard to the tutoring of educationally retarded children. It began on the assumption that children in slum area schools could benefit from tutorial…

This book proposes the approach that, regardless of the present turmoil, regardless of technology and other social considerations, there is a fundamental inequity in the availability of cultural, recreational, and leisure experience that men of goodwill abhor. Seeing beyond hostile rhetoric, the book seeks to search out the foundations within the…

This history of the development of the Comprehensive Career Education (School Based) Model (CCEM), includes historical antecedents of the project, early organizational activities, major conceptual focuses, and current efforts. In June 1971 the Center for Vocational and Technical Education (CVTE) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio was…

This is the final report on the first phase of a two phase comprehensive study of the delivery of Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) services to ethnic minorities. Phase one of the study was concerned with the extent to which services were delivered to Asian Americans, American Indians, and Spanish speaking people. The study sample…

The evaluation reports submitted by local educational agencies (LEAs) in Virginia during 1974-75 are the bases of the data and information contained in this report. Some of the highlights of the analyses conducted on Title I programs are as follows. In the area of administration, enrollment in Title I classes has been concentrated in grades one…

Two hundred and seventy-four Oregon Local Educational Agency (LEA) districts took part in 343 Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funded projects in fiscal year 1974. This report is compiled from project evaluations submitted by these participating LEA's. Chapter 1 provides basic information about the school district participation in…

The first section of this report provides the pupil count, expenditures, and staff figures for the 1973-74 school year Connecticut compensatory education programs. Section two provides the major types of programs for public and nonpublic schools and the frequency of their occurrence in 1973-1974. The programs include preschool, reading and math,…

The introductory section to the Advisory Council's report lists the two mandates it is responsible for: (1) To advise on regulations and policy matters relating to Title I ("community service and continuing education") of the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (2) to review the administration and effectiveness of all federally financed…

Part of a larger study of the social, economic, and political effects of the new Federal approach to delivery of manpower services, this report covers the early transition period (January-April 1975) of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA--P.L. 93-203), which was the first in a series of proposed special revenue-sharing…

This is a document reporting on the McKinley Education Complex 89-10, a Title I Project conducted in Hawaii in seven public elementary schools, two intermediate public schools, one public high school, and three parochial schools. The three major project components are the modified cirricula, the educational assessment and the prescriptive teaching…

Even Start family literacy programs are integrated adult education, early childhood education, and parent support components intended to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and low literacy. In Spring of 2002, a follow-up study of one Even Start project was conducted to assess the long-term effects of Even Start programming for families.…

First authorized in 1994, the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers program supports after-school programs in approximately 7,500 rural and inner-city public schools . A distinguishing characteristic of 21st-Century programs is the inclusion of academic activities. This report presents the first-year findings from an evaluation of the program.…

This document focuses on technologies that can be used to improve federal government services. Reference Point, a foundation based in New Jersey, was chosen by the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress to study the application of advanced information. The applications selected for the study were: Electronic Information…

This report is the third in a series of four final reports and several research briefs that present the findings of the Longitudinal Study of the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services Program, a study that the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) has conducted for the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), U.S. Department of Education. The…