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Ramirez, A. Y. – School Community Journal, 2004
This report highlights the evaluation of a parent education program conducted with an urban middle school in Southern California. The program called "PASSport to Success" enables parents to learn study skills and how to better teach their children how to study in school. This evaluative report conducted a pretest and a posttest on…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Study Skills, Middle Schools, Pretests Posttests
Mintrop, Heinrich; Trujillo, Tina – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
In search for the practical relevance of accountability systems for school improvement, we ask whether practitioners traveling between the worlds of system-designated high and low-performing schools would detect tangible differences by observing concrete behaviors, looking at student work, or inquiring about teacher, administrator, or student…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Urban Schools, Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Surveys
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2007
As part of its work in developing a performance accountability framework for higher education, the Commission conducted an analysis of student performance on standardized tests at the high school and middle school levels. National test results show that California is behind most other states in giving its students a high school education of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Enguidanos, Tomas; Ruiz, Nadeen T. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2008
Historically, and continuing to the present, children in the primary grades receive the lion's share of attention and resources in learning to read. This makes sense: Young, early readers have a head start in achieving well not only in literacy skills, but in school in general. However, as inner-city, middle-grade teachers will readily attest,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction
den Brok, Perry; Fisher, Darrell; Rickards, Tony; Bull, Eric – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This study utilised the "What Is Happening In this Class" (WIHIC) questionnaire to examine factors that influence Californian students' perceptions of their learning environment. Data were collected from 665 USA middle school science students in 11 Californian schools. Several background variables, such as gender, socioeconomic status,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students, Science Education
Hough, David L. – 1989
The second in a four-phase research project, this report presents data from a stratified random sample of California middle schools using four grade span configurations (K-8, 6-8, 7-8, and 7-9). This phase, a pilot study, is designing a methodology to help researchers discriminate among the number, percentage, and types of programs offered by the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Extracurricular Activities, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Hidden Curriculum

Underwood, Terry – Educational Assessment, 1998
Presents findings of a year-long study of a language arts portfolio-assessment system in a California middle school in which an external evaluation committee applied a rubric to student portfolios from three teachers' classes. Discusses reasons the school board chose not to adopt the portfolio system. Contains over 60 references. (SLD)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Case Studies, Language Arts, Middle Schools
Acquarelli, Kris; Mumme, Judith – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Using teachers' professional development as its central strategy, California's Middle Grades Mathematical Renaissance project aims to transform its mathematics program so that all students become empowered mathematically. This article discusses key questions concerning the program's resources, strategies, leadership roles, and monitoring…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Equal Education, Intermediate Grades
Hopfenberg, Wendy S. – 1991
The experiences of the first middle school to pilot the ideas and concepts of the Accelerated Schools Project are described. The school is an inner-city public school with a population of at-risk students presently scoring below district and state achievement averages. The 689 students are 53 percent Hispanic, 23 percent Portuguese, 17 percent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Montgomery, Joel R. – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this working paper is to review current literature on literacy programs for parents of English language learners (ELLs). The paper includes a summary of five literacy programs for ELL parents throughout the United States of America. Four of these were system-wide interventions affecting more than one school or classroom. Each…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Parent School Relationship
Sundberg, Robert Eric – 1994
This study examined non-traditional methods in teaching spelling and vocabulary using music and rhythm in instruction. Subjects were 4 at-risk students in a class of 29 students in a seventh-grade classroom at a middle school in Marin County, California. A musical component was added to instruction as part of the seventh-grade students' processing…
Descriptors: Grade 7, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools

Hough, David – 1993
A descriptive study investigated whether a common middle-level writing program exists, and what factors impact the writing program and the relationships among these factors. A random sample of 1,500 classrooms in California and Missouri stratifying on four grade span school types (K-8, 6-8, 7-8, 7-9) was chosen. A survey was developed, sent, and…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Benoit, Ty – 2002
When archaeologists dig up the artifacts of ancient civilizations, they make discoveries and attempt to find out what life was like for ancient people. Students in the classroom explore the civilizations of the ancient world attempting to answer questions about how people lived thousands of years ago. In this activity for grade 6, students, in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Anthropology, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries
Haskvitz, Alan – Southern Social Studies Quarterly, 1990
Discusses the "Make a Difference Program" designed to respond to the changing interests of students and the changes in curriculum and methodology in the California schools. Outlines and elaborates on the 10 aspects of the program. Stresses the development of critical thinking skills and active student participation. (RW)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools

Charles, Laura; And Others – Journal of Staff Development, 1995
Elementary, middle, and high school teachers from several school districts in California and Georgia share their experiences with designing and using study groups. Teachers report that the study groups identified educational and school needs, promoted teacher empowerment, increased collegiality, and kept teachers up on current issues and research…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion