The overall objectives of the 1971-72 Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act program were: to raise reading and mathematics achievement level one year and five months; to reinforce, enrich, and extend skill mastery through integration of the special subject areas; to broaden the experiential backgrounds of the children; to recognize and accept the values and contributions of each subject to reading and mathematics; and, to increase teacher competency. Forty elementary schools and nine junior high schools were selected as Title I target schools based upon an economic index. To these were added nine elementary schools that had received Title I services during the 1970-71 school year. In the public schools, the students "identified" for the purpose of participating in the Title I program were those in the first, second, third and seventh grades, whose test scores on the Fall 1971 citywide tests placed them at or below the fiftieth percentile of the D.C. school students in these grades in either reading total or mathematics total grade equivalent score; or, in the case of the first grade, in the reading readiness percentile rank. In the eight nonpublic schools, identified students were selected from only those students in grades one through eight who lived within the attendance areas of public Title I schools and who fell below the citywide median in their test scores in reading or mathematics. (Author/JM)