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Nancy L. Oesterreich – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In 1967, Martin Luther King affirmed, "In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind Whites, and their segregated schools received substantially less money per student than do the White schools." (as cited in Startz, 2020, para. 1) Two years prior, the main intent of the ESEA of 1965, which also created Title I, had been…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Low Income Students
Comer, James P.; And Others – 1977
The purpose of the Social Skills Curriculum Model is to improve the social climate level of parent participation, and academic achievement in inner city elementary schools The approach was developed at Martin Luther King School in New Haven, Connecticut. It is a preventative mental health model which focuses on the organization of the school. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Environmental Influences, Inner City
Lauchner, Jan – 1973
The Ed. S. Cook Elementary School, located near the Capitol Homes Housing Project, the Martin Luther King Village, and a six to eight block deteriorating inner-city neighborhood, served 666 pupils in grades kindergarten through seven in the main building and an additional 80 infants, toddlers, and kindergarten-age children in the Title IV-A Child…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools