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Grevera, Ronald John – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A historical case study from a 6-8 middle school in the coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania was conducted to examine the extent of teacher collaboration before and after the implementation of the teaming concept as well as the construction of a new middle school. The study was triangulated through the use of multiple data points including…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Teamwork
Lutz, Frank W.; Garnon, Frederick W., Jr. – 1978
Recently there has been a resurgence in demand for citizen participation in public school decision-making. To directly assess the degree of this phenomenon, 30 public school districts were selected from Pennsylvania (excluding Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), based on a random sample, for a citizen attitude measurement questionnaire that yielded 320…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Decentralization
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McEwin, C. Kenneth; Dickinson, Thomas S.; Jacobson, Michael G. – Middle School Journal, 2005
The history of young adolescent education can be viewed as an ongoing search for the appropriate combination of school organization, curriculum, and instructional practices for young adolescents. While middle schools have now become the most common pattern for schools housing young adolescents, there have always been other broader school…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Instructional Program Divisions, Teaching Methods, School Organization
Haney, George E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
Because of the increased interest in and current publicity given to the problems of agricultural migrant workers and their families, there has been a growing concern in the Nation regarding the lack of educational opportunities offered to migrant children. Since the programs for the education of children of migrant workers vary from State to…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Opportunities, School Organization, Migrant Workers