Title I has a mixed legacy. It helped cultivate and sustain the political salience of improving
the education of children who live in poverty. It helped sweep schools, regardless of their …

How efficient is Title I, the largest federal educational program in elementary and secondary
schools? What is the quality of the Title I services? Has Title I promoted equity in schools …

By Margaret E. Goertz nactment of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in
1965 was a major turning point in federal education policy. This legislation dramatically …

This report provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent data available from the
National Assessment of Title I on the implementation of the Title I program and the academic …

Title I ESEA faces a fundamental tension in achieving its goal of improving outcomes for
disadvantaged students. On the one hand, districts may fail to target federal funds to the …

In 1994 President Clinton proposed and Congress passed several pieces of sweeping
legislation that, for the first time, forged a state-federal partnership to implement standards …

Based on the proceedings of a national conference titled" Implementation of the Title I
Program: Implications for Improving Schools' Capacity for Achieving Success," this …

Since its inception in 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now known as No
Child Left Behind (NCLB), has directed billions of federal dollars toward low-income …

Since the Great Society era of the 1960s, the federal grants-in-aid system has been used as
the primary tool to address equity issues in elementary and secondary education. One of the …

Improving educational opportunity for millions of poor children has been the basic goal of
the Title I program for a third of a century. Critics say that the effort is a failure and supporters …