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Peer reviewedLe Tendre, Mary Jean – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Describes how some schools are using funding from Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 to apply technology in the schools. Reviews specific requirements for allocating funds in targeted assistance and schoolwide program schools. (SLD)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Uses in Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedLe Tendre, Mary Jean – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1996
Examines the change in focus of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 from an emphasis on isolated remedial add-on services to a concentration on leveraging overall improvement in teaching and learning. Benefits of schoolwide programs are highlighted, and the components needed for developing high-functioning schools are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Peer reviewedPlunkett, Virginia R. L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Describes the new directions, or paradigm shift, that schools must learn to deal with under the 1994 Improving America's Schools Act as subsumed under five headings: (1) standards; (2) focus on teaching and learning with an accelerated curriculum; (3) flexibility for local initiative; (4) links among schools, parents, and communities; and (5)…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
