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Higgins, Paul S. – 1976
Two Emergency School Aid Act (ESSA)-funded compensatory education reading programs served 1900 Minneapolis students in desegregated schools during 1974-75. Both programs generally met their objectives for comprehension gain among disabled readers. Students in the ESAA Intermediate Reading Program achieved a median rate of about 3 grade-score…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Federal Programs, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
In 1975 the City of Detroit Public Schools were ordered by the United States District Court to improve educational services in order to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. To this end, the school system obtained Emergency School Aid Act and State monies to fund four educational components: reading and communication skills, inservice…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Desegregation Effects, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality