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99 CIS H 34196
TITLE: Title I of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: An Overview
CIS-NO: 99-H341-96
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the
Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Apr. 14, 1999
LENGTH:
iii+218 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-20
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial
No. 106-20. Hearing to examine issues involved in the reauthorization of
Department of Education compensatory education assistance programs for
low-income and disadvantaged elementary and secondary students
under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA).
Supplementary material (p. 51-218) includes witnesses'
written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Compensatory educ
programs reauthorization issues
DESCRIPTORS:
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION;
FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION; COMPENSATORY EDUCATION; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-H341-96
TESTIMONY NO: 1 Apr. 14, 1999 p. 4-49, 57-213
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GINSBURG, ALAN L.
(Director, Planning and Evaluation Service, Department of Education)
VINOVSKIS, MARIS A. (Senior Research Scientist, Institute
for Social Research, University of Michigan)
CASSERLY,
MICHAEL D. (Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools)
RAVITCH, DIANE S. (Historian of Education, New York
University)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Findings of national assessment of ESEA, including
strengths and weakness of Title I programs (related charts and graphs, p.
80-86); recommendations for reauthorization of ESEA Title I programs; review of
report on implementation of Title I reforms enacted under 1994 ESEA
reauthorization; elaboration on ESEA reauthorization proposals.
INSERTIONS:
a. Vinovskis, M. A., "Do Federal
Compensatory Education Programs Really Work?: A Brief Historical Analysis of
Title I and Head Start" revised draft, Feb. 1999, with bibliography (p. 95-142).
b. Council of the Great City Schools, ESEA reauthorization
proposals, summary and title-by-title recommendations (p. 165-202).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Compensatory educ programs
reauthorization issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
COUNCIL OF THE GREAT CITY SCHOOLS; HISTORY; HEAD START
PROGRAM; BIBLIOGRAPHIES 
