Title I: Helping Disadvantaged Students Meet High Standards     [full text]

Title I: Helping Disadvantaged Students Meet High Standards (formerly Chapter 1), reauthorized under the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, supports programs to assist economically disadvantaged and at-risk students. Unlike Chapter 1, the newly reauthorized Title I makes clear that limited English proficient students are eligible for services on the same basis as other students (Holmes, 1995).
 

• NCBE Resource Highlights: Limited English Proficient Students & Title I - a comprehensive list of on-line articles
• The New Title I:  Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards, from the U.S. Department of Education, by Mary Jean LeTendre, Director, Compensatory Education Program.  Published in The Title I Times, April 1995.
• High Standards for All Students: A Report from the National Assessment of Title I on Progress and Challenges Since the 1994 Reauthorization, a report from the Planning and Evaluation Service, Office of the Under-Secretary, U.S. Department of Education.  January 2001 (PDF file).
• Bringing All Students to High Standards:  Report on National Education Goals Panel Field Hearings, by Robert Rothman,  December, 2000 (PDF file).
• The National PTA has a page on Title I:  Guide to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act:  National PTA Priorities for the Reauthorization of ESEA, from January 1999.  Contains a summary of the title "at a glance" with a link to a more detailed description.
• Policy Guidance for Title I, Part A: Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies from the U.S. Department of Education gives information about targeted assistance schools.
• How Title I and Title VII can work together to improve the performance of limited English proficient students from the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA)

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The above definition was taken from the NCBE terminology page (AskNCBE No. 10, June 1996, http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/askncbe/faqs/10terms.htm)

Reference:

Holmes, D. (1995). An Idea Book 1994 Federal Legislation: Forming New Partnerships for Educating All Students to High Standards. Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education.