Preface

This is one of three documents constituting the mandated Interim Report on the National Assessment of Title I. This Executive Summary describes the studies that comprise the National Assessment of Title I and provides executive summaries of the findings of Volumes I and II. Volume I, Implementation of Title I, was prepared by the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, Policy and Program Studies Service. Volume II, Closing the Reading Gap: First Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers, was prepared by the Corporation for the Advancement of Policy Evaluation.