IDENTIFIERS Education Consolidation Improvement Act Chapter 1;

A study compared reading instruction in two South Carolina public elementary schools, Sumner and Danville, that receive federal funding for remedial reading instruction under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. The two schools vary in many ways--Danville is a "traditional " school in a predominantly black urban environment, while Sumner enrolls students from a relatively well-to-do suburb and a rural poor trailer park community. Data for analysis were culled from diverse sources: questionnaires; interviews with school district Chapter 1 coordinators, principals, teachers, instructional aides, and students; and field notes on the instructional days of Chapter 1 students. Data revealed that Danville used the "pullout " model for remedial instruction, sending students to a reading lab to receive instruction from a teacher and an aide, while Sumner used "floating " aides who worked within the classrooms