This document reviews the history of compensatory education programs under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (Chapter 1), assesses the programs' current status, and speculates on their future paths. Part 1 is a historical review of compensatory education, identifying strategies, programs and services provided, ways it has been…

This paper discusses educational programs for minority students, including females, disadvantaged and gifted. The paper begins with a section on the history of minority underrepresentation in gifted programs and gives a series of reasons why appropriate educational opportunities for these children have been difficult to establish. Perhaps the…

This paper presents a conceptual overview of issues relating to the education of the disadvantaged. Problems of identification and definition of the disadvantaged are discussed in terms of compensatory education. Concepts regarding "disadvantage" that underlie many of the compensatory instructional intervention programs are described, as…