This article examines the federal role in adolescent literacy from its roots in Lyndon B. Johnson's administration with the Economic Opportunity Act (1964) through the Reading for Understanding grants of 2010. The authors consider the extent to which the recent attention to and changes in the federal approach to adolescent literacy can be…

The educational achievement and attainment of young people in the United States has been a long-standing issue of concern. While analyses of long-term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that students in the United States have made gains in reading and mathematics over the past few decades, a sizeable…

Describes the current state of evidence of effectiveness for replicable programs available to elementary and middle schools serving many students placed at risk, and provides Title I schools with information on the instructional outcomes of programs they might consider to meet student needs. Characteristics of programs identified as effective are…

This study attempts to develop a decision framework to aid project directors in planning change under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Literature on change, the change process, decisions, and the decision process is reviewed and a framework within which to study planned change is constructed. Decision making, in the change…

Twenty-six papers concerning Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program evaluation--presented at the 1978 American Educational Research Association/National Council on Measurement in Education meeting--are summarized. Speakers from the federal government are: C.T. Cross (see ED 156 695); R.L. Fishbein; and D. Ozenne. State department…

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…

In the course of a national survey of schools funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, other studies and data were reviewed to determine what was already known about compensatory education. This literature review covers several types of studies on the nature of Title I/Chapter 1 instructional services, staff, and…

In considering the apparent failure of the two major compensatory education programs, Project Head Start and Title I, there are so many uncontrolled variables interacting simultaneously that it is virtually impossible to define the specific etiological factors engendering the results obtained. The Federal programs are difficult to evaluate because…

This book is an analytical assessment of what is known at present about the determinants of educational effectiveness. The literature reviewed is representative of the body of published work from 1950 through 1973. After the introduction and a chapter on measuring educational outcomes, the study is organized according to five approaches:…

The study of how domestic social service programs have been implemented remains an embryonic field in search of future research directions. Relying largely on their exploratory analysis of the implementation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from a 13-year perspective, the authors argue that a longitudinal approach…

During the spring of 1976, a study was conducted to compare Oklahoma migrant student against a standard which would allow for the determination of areas in which to improve the migrant education programs. The literature concerning migrant students and their education in other states was explored. Findings and characterizations of migrant students…

To develop an evaluation model appropriate to education in the Philadelphia School System, six teams of evaluators drawn from a total evaluation staff of 11 report on 34 Title I-ESEA projects processed in the city of Philadelphia during the 1968-69 school year. Information in each report includes a summary of the particular project, its problem…