The Effect of Compensatory Programs on Tested Achievement in a Designated Low-Income Area Junior High School

The deepening concern for educating the children of the economically deprived has characterized the decade of the sixties as the decade of the disadvantaged in public education. The civil rights movement, the continued migration of the poor to metropolitan areas, the need for trained manpower and the prevalence of rebelliousness have brought the role of education and its inadequacies into sharp focus