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Download full textRutherford, Barry, Ed. – 1995
The papers in this volume, commissioned by RMC Research Corporation for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, were adapted to reflect the input of participants at a national conference in Washington, DC in June 1992 on middle grades parent and community involvement. Part I reviews the literature in five chapters that focus on the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperation, Educational Change, Intermediate Grades
Schuurs, Uriel Richard Innocentius – 1990
This book examines ways to improve the writing skills of older elementary school students and junior high school students, with particular emphasis on grammatical errors concerning anaphora, connectors, and information gapping. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss the common syntactic errors which regularly appear in essays written by pupils of 10 to 14 years…
Descriptors: Dutch, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Instructional Effectiveness
Trubowitz, Sidney; Longo, Paul – 1997
A collaboration between Queens College (New York City) and Louis Armstrong Middle School began in part as an effort to settle a dispute between two school districts about control of a newly established middle school and its program for gifted students. Collaboration between the college and the middle school addressed the issues of integration and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College School Cooperation, Cooperation, Educational Administration
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
Blake, Brett Elizabeth – 1997
The focus of this book is a study of voice through writing among poor, urban preadolescent fifth-grade girls. Voice became a central focus when the researcher, engaged in observations of peer writing conferences for students who were not native speakers, noted that the girls appeared to lose their voices as the year went on. The loss of voice was…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Ethnography
Yeo, Frederick L. – 1997
This book addresses experientially and theoretically the nature of contemporary urban education, in terms of teaching and in the contexts of U.S. culture and teacher education. Much of it is derived from classroom experience as an inner-city classroom teacher. Chapter 1, "Connecting Inner Cities and Urban Schools: Racism's 'Slippery…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Culture, Educational Change
