At the time, the Johnson administration was trumpeting a federally funded compensatory education program that was supposed to equalize educational opportunity by concentrating more funding on students living in low - income neighborhoods. (educationnext.org)
His research has focused on the effects of compensatory education programs on the racial achievement gap. (gse.harvard.edu)
In addition, the concerted efforts to desegregate schools in the wake of Brown, combined with the creation of federal compensatory education programs aimed at low - income households, coincided with a narrowing of the achievement gap between whites and blacks during the 1960s and 1970s. (educationnext.org)