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Download full textMancini, Gail Hinchion; Lewis, Anne C., Ed. – 1993
This publication describes efforts taken in Indiana to improve middle-grade education. The restructuring of the state's urban middle grades has been supported by Lilly Endowment Inc., which founded the Middle Grades Improvement Program (MGIP), 6 years ago. Despite the lack of an overall middle-grade theme in the state Department of Education and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedRosario, Jose R.; Franklin, Barry M. – Journal of Education Policy, 1994
Service learning, currently popular among communitarian-minded American educators, recently received a large dose of political legitimacy in "What You Can Do for Your Country," the report of the Commission on National and Community Service. This article examines the commission's proposal and explores, through a case study of urban school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community, Educational Benefits
Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. – 1993
Many sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students in this nation are intelligent and talented, but are nevertheless performing at unacceptably low levels. Many middle-school initiatives do not address the need for comprehensive change in the policy and practices of district and state educational systems, nor do they address the content, quality,…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Ames, Nancy L.; Miller, Edward – 1994
This book tells the stories of four urban middle schools that have undergone deep transformation while participating in the Middle Grades Improvement Program (MGIP), an initiative that has nurtured fundamental change in school climate, structure and classroom practice in 16 urban districts and 65 schools in Indiana. The support of the Lilly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Community Support, Disadvantaged Youth
