Chapter 6.-First Annual Report, Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Fifty States, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. Territories report on 1965-66 compensatory education programs under Title I, Public Law 89-10. FOREWORD Department OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, ANd Welfare, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I have the honor to transmit to the Congress a summary of reports by the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and three territories giving their own evaluation of the programs, operations, and effects of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in its first year of operation. The State reports were made to the Office of Education pursuant to Sections 205(a) (6) and 206(a)(3) of Public Law 89-10. The Office of Education prepared guidelines and sample evaluation report forms for the States. The States, in turn, devised their own evaluation procedures for local school districts. This report, then, is a summation of individual reports by the 54 agencies which submitted evaluations of their own operations and those of the local school districts whose projects they approved and surveyed. This is the first such evaluation ever attempted, and the States not unexpectedly encountered many difficulties. Nevertheless, the quality of their responses has been commendable and heartening. It is clear from the reports that the States regard Title I as both historic and strikingly successful. The reports reveal great promise in this unique educational venture. They also reveal many problems. I am confident that the problems will be met, that the promise will be realized, and that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 will go down in history as one of the milestones in American education. In this report to you, we are passing along certain recommendations advanced by the States. We have made no comment on those recommendations at this time but will later present to your Committee a detailed list of recommendations of our own, based on analysis of the State reports, the reports of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children, and other information. Sincerely yours, HAROLD HOWE II, C. The future: Problems, objectives, recommendations. D. What the States said about title Í.... II. How the States identified and met children's needs. |