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Peer reviewedShore, Rebecca – Educational Leadership, 1995
A personalized education, according to Ted Sizer, means that students are known by adult professionals in the school. Administrators at a California high school with 2,000 students and very large classes initiated an adopt-a-kid program by matching adult volunteers on campus with low-achieving students. This program, along with a successful block…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Environment, High Schools, Prevention
Peer reviewedBurke, Jim – Educational Leadership, 1991
A California English teacher explores the school safety issue for both innercity and suburban high schools students. Wearing certain sports team jackets can place kids in danger; girls degrade themselves by keeping gang members' drugs and guns in their lockers. Schools can help reclaim the "Great Disconnected" by developing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clothing, High Schools, Intervention
