NCLB: Title I, Part A
Title I, Part A – Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
The purpose of Title I, Part A is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments
Major Requirements:
- Ensure high quality assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, and curriculum are aligned with state standards
- Meet the educational needs of low-achieving children in our Nation's highest-poverty schools, minority students, limited English proficient children, migratory children, children with disabilities, Indian children, neglected or delinquent children, and young children in need of reading assistance
- Elevate the quality of instruction by providing staff with opportunities for professional development
- Afford parents opportunities to participate in their children's education
Read the full text of this entitlement.
Palm handhelds. smartphones and software solutions can help educators meet the goals of this entitlement. With Palm solutions, educators may:
- Link specific learning standards and benchmarks to assessments
- Track student attendance, demographics and performance
- Generate required reports
- Customize data according to individual needs
- Monitor progress and assess students on a continuous basis, rather than wait for the standardized test results. Handhelds hold promise for formative and summative assessment (in-class notes, running records, electronic portfolios)
- Have immediate access to disaggregated data, class schedules, contact information and student photographs from student information systems
- Continually update, revise and share student portfolios
- Create and share forms for handheld computers; create or download ready-made quizzes
- Scan barcodes and use the data in student management applications
- Complete Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) on the web and track requirements for special education students.
- Develop and complete performance appraisals for professional staff (administrators)
Palm handhelds and software solutions can help students meet the goals of this entitlement. With Palm solutions, students may:
- Share documents, conduct peer editing, and build on previous work
- Reinforce mathematical thinking skills and reading/language arts achievement (read across the curriculum)
- Access concept mapping, visualization, graphing and analysis tools in language arts, math and science classes
- View interactive ideas and relationships to support comprehension, retention and skill development
- Use probes and sensors for scientific data collection, analysis, and inference drawing
Engender the realization that science is more than facts, it is a way of thinking, a process of doing, reflecting dynamic and changing patterns
- Use word processing, with affordable keyboard accessories, as an effective tool in student writing
- Use organizers to increase time on task, take notes, and create agenda
- Increase the size of text and images (special needs students)
- Download audiobooks, radio programs, newspapers and magazines (non-reader or the visually impaired)
- Use word prediction software
- Prepare for standardized tests
- Browse the web
Download NCLB/IDEA and Palm OS Education Solutions matrix related to Title I, Part A.
Download NCLB/IDEA and Palm OS Education Solutions matrix for all NCLB/IDEA.
Palm in education
Palm handheld computers provide a productive and affordable solution for integrating technology in the classroom and are increasingly being considered for one-to-one initiatives in an effort to put computing in the hands of all children. Palm's leadership position in handheld technology ensures state-of-the-art products, with professional development for teachers, principals and administrators in concert with a rich and growing array of software solutions to meet the needs of all students.
Palm Treo smartphones are powerful administrative solutions that converge handheld computer technology with cellular capabilities. When combined with student information and management solutions, Treo smartphones enable educators to access data and communicate inside or outside the school or campus.
