Title: Title I Program Stronger Accountability Needed for Performance of Disadvantaged Students
http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/he00089.pdf
Summary: This article is about the efficiency of Title I funds as the state being the allocator and the need for the federal government to become more involved in supervising the use of these funds as it could have a serious benefit to the entire Title I capacity.
Topic: http://msaraceno.wordpress.com/question/
Category: This is an institutional source.
What is it? This is an Internet version of a GAO report that looked into Title I funds.
Publication Information: GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. June 2000.
Author: Harriet C. Ganson, Assistant Director, Sarah L. Glavin, Senior Economist, Timothy E. Hall, Sheila R. Nicholson, Ellen K. Schwartz, John G. Smale, James P. Wright. These are all the leading contributors to this article and the closest thing to a named author I can find.
Location: http://www.gao.gov/archive/2000/he00089.pdf
Accessed: February 5, 2009
Support: A letter responding to this report form the Department of Education is displayed. This is a source to show the relevance of this report in context to the people who asked for the information, which is very useful in determining the relevance of this article to the audience specifically.
The article uses a survey of 50 states done by GAO, which is used for the graphs of information.
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) was another source of surveys done that are relevant to the article and listed in the footnote section of the article.
EducationWeek:QualityCounts2000 is cited in the article as a reference to individual state systems as a whole since the article is generalizing a lot the information.
The sources in this article are working to provide a better scope of information that has previously been found and the addition this information is bringing to the table. The report is very thick and to have support throughout the entire script is pretty extensive to follow up on; however, some parts need further looking and others are pretty straightforward.
Audience and Agenda: This report was done specifically for the Department of Education. The audience thus would include many involved in the education field if their district or school is receiving Title I funds. The audience is very small and specific with a function of providing a thorough study of the specific Title I problems and functionality as a whole. The agenda is to help the Department of Education revamp or cut the program down to fit better with its intended purpose.
Usefulness: The article gives light to how the federal government needs to be involved with holding schools accountable in regards to performance achievement levels that the schools need to be reaching. Since my question is in regards to whether the funding in the stimulus package should or should not go to the Title I section of education, the information provided gives a good idea of what hasn’t been working in the past, why it hasn’t worked and recommendations of what might better serve this program to work in the future. This evaluation provides a very thorough break down of the program, which in itself is very helpful when looking for further information and having a place to cross reference new data. This article will be very useful in relating issues with Title I in the past and how the Obama Administration plans to correct some of those issues as they hand off a huge check to keep it going.
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