In 1988, Congress mandated a national longitudinal evaluation of the effects of the Title I program on students' academic achievement and classroom behavior. This paper presents an overview of the study design, analysis methods, and impact results for student achievement. The analysis used four types of designs to assess the impact of Title I: (1)…

Describes an industry-sponsored day care center, the Urban Affairs Child Development Center, in the heart of Houston's Fifth Ward poverty area. (CS)

Describes the intervention strategies adopted in the Liverpool Priority Project and presents a case for closer relationships between education with the social, economic, and political institutions of the neighborhood in which the community school could form the integrating hub. (Author/JM)

The author describes five common misconceptions concerning the role of education in the alleviation of poverty. Implications for public policy are suggested. (JH)

Describes a project with two aims: (1) to develop, with the help of practicing teachers, strategies and ideas that would be of benefit to young socially handicapped children, and (2) to evaluate these strategies in a controlled environment. (CT)

For over 25 years, Title I and Chapter 1 programs have provided remedial services to children deficient in basic skills by instructing them separately. The most important future objectives for compensatory education are preventing early reading failure, enhancing regular classroom instruction, and improving assessment and accountability. (27…

Examines changes in the 1994 reauthorization of Title I that shift flexibility and accountability to local schools and explores implications of these changes for the 1999 reauthorization. Congress will need to determine whether the structure of the Improving America's Schools Act is adequate to bring about educational improvement for all students.…

Paraprofessionals have often acquired many skills that make them valuable contributors to the effectiveness of Title I programs. Career ladders supported with Title I and other funds are effective tools to help paraprofessionals increase their skills and become better teachers. (SLD)

The purpose of this editorial is to formulate some reflections of a very general and introductory kind on the problem posed by the educational handicaps of large numbers of children from socially and economically deprived backgrounds, from the point of view of a developmental and clinical psychologist, rather than that of an educationist.…

Examines some of the discussion provoked by recent research in compensatory education strategies in Europe and the U.S. emphasizing the complexity and relativity of 'socio-cultural handicaps' and arguing for an individual rather than for a social class oriented approach to compensatory education. (Author/JM)

Describes a program being carried out by the Faculte des Sciences Psycho-pedagogiques, Universite de l'Etat a Mons, in which controlled intervention is made to identify handicaps imposed by the social environment on education and to pinpoint the most efficient educational methods, focusing on how the project affects family-school cooperation.…

A Senate hearing was convened for the purpose of receiving testimony on the reauthorization of the Head Start program on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the program's implementation. Opening and prepared statements providing background information are followed by reports of the arguments of three groups of concerned parties in favor of…

Several questions concerning early childhood education are addressed. These include: (1) How should the curriculum for young children be framed? (2) What are effective intervention strategies for at-risk children? (3) How does the public school need to change to accommodate new responsibilities caused by changes in its mission and clientele?…

The summary descriptions of state programs in compensatory education (SCE) contained in this report update information presented in the 1981 Bay Area Research Group (BARG) report. A more restrictive definition of compensatory education is used in this current report, whereby only programs in which a specific target population is named and in which…