ABSTRACT
This federal funding source has supported a variety of supplemental services that share a collective purpose: to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for low-achieving students in schools with concentrations of poverty. Since the inception of Title I, districts and states have collected annual evaluative and descriptive information regarding the local operation of their programs. At the federal level, researchers have attempted to produce national estimates of participants’ achievement gains by synthesizing the results of these district and state test data. In addition, the federal government has sponsored two systematic, nationally representative, longitudinal assessments of participants’ achievement-the Sustaining Effects Study and the recently completed Prospects study-and a number of smaller studies, which have examined the implementation and effectiveness of the program from a variety of perspectives.
