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Anderson, Judith I.; Stonehill, Robert M. – 1986
Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, like its predecessor, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1985, provides federal funding for compensatory education programs. Throughout its twenty years of existence, the program has been subject to contradictory claims about its purpose and its…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Mobility, Educational Status Comparison
Ascher, Carol – 1988
Researchers and educators have begun to question whether Chapter 1 pull-out programs are the most effective method of delivering extra help to the students who need it. Pull-out programs are still the predominating type, but may be declining in popularity as in-class programs gain favor. This document summarizes a variety of program designs which…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Strategies, Educationally Disadvantaged
Karweit, Nancy; Ricciuti, Anne – 1994
The Chapter 1 program represents the nation's largest federal investment in elementary and secondary schools. This report describes the operation of Chapter 1 services, with a focus on instructional practices and classroom organization. Specifically, the report describes how services differed by the poverty level of a school and by the type of…
Descriptors: Categorical Aid, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems
Smith, Marshall S. – 1986
This paper argues for two major changes in the selection of students and in the way that services are delivered under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. The first change would make available Chapter 1 funds only to schools with very high proportions of children whose families live in poverty. The second change…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Smith, Marshall S. – 1987
The Chapter 1 program of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act would be made more efficient and effective by implementing the following recommendations: (1) improve the targeting of funds; (2) let good educational practice rather than accounting practice shape Chapter 1 programs; (3) establish systems of output accountability for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Peterson, Penelope L. – 1986
Using recent theory and research on individual differences, learning, and instruction, this paper attempts to answer the following two questions: What criteria should be used to select students to receive services under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (1981) and what kinds of chapter 1 services should be provided to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria
Haslam, M. Bruce; Humphrey, Daniel C. – 1993
This report describes the implementation of Section 1017 of Chapter 1 contained in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Section 1017 requires school districts to serve eligible students enrolled in private schools. Private schools affiliated with religious groups make up the bulk of all Chapter 1-eligible students. The report…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Pogrow, Stanley – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
Chapter 1 service providers assume that children suffer from a knowledge deficit best treated through remedial instruction. Actually, remedial students do not understand "understanding." The Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) project stimulates four general thinking techniques (metacognition, inference from context, decontextualization,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Learning Activities
Hill, Paul T. – 1987
This paper analyzes design alternatives for Federal elementary and secondary education programs. It identifies the range of program strategies available and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The proper design for any program depends upon the following factors: (1) goals; (2) the availability of Federal funding to pay for necessary services…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Chimerine, Carrie B.; And Others – 1993
Based on current research, the study reports on how students spend out-of-school time, addresses issues related to the integration of services and parent and family involvement, and suggests ways in which the Chapter 1 program can play a more active role than in the past. Research has indicated that placing more emphasis on primary services for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Ancillary School Services, Compensatory Education
Rowan, Brian; And Others – 1986
As one of five field studies in the National Assessment of Chapter 1, this project studied the design and operations of the Chapter 1 program at the point of service delivery. Examination of the program at 24 schools revealed the following: (1) inflationary pressure on Chapter 1 budgets affected design decisions among schools; (2) cross-site…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Anderson, Judith – 1993
This working paper examines funding to U.S. school districts and public schools in accordance with Chapter 1 of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended in 1988. The report discusses the background of the legislation, describes its provisions, and presents results from the Schools and Staffing Survey conducted in…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Williams, Barbara I.; And Others – 1987
This study documents the ways in which Chapter 1 services are delivered across the nation at the local school district level. Data were collected by mail and telephone surveys of district and Chapter 1 administrators in 2,200 nationally representative school districts. The following topics are discussed: (1) profile of Chapter 1 districts; (2)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Elmore, Richard F. – 1987
However defined, the quality of services under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act is heavily dependent on the setting in which those services are delivered. Working definitions of the following aspects of program delivery are presented as a means of establishing evaluation criteria: (1) the resources applied to a local…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Quality, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Ascher, Carol; Flaxman, Erwin – 1988
Recent evaluations of Federal compensatory education programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I, and maintained by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, Chapter 1, point to qualified effectiveness in the targeting of services, program structures, and classroom arrangements for increasing the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems, Educationally Disadvantaged