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Cuban, Larry – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
After a 16-year absence from the public school classroom, an education professor returned for a semester to teach American history to an eleventh-grade class. He recounts four lessons concerning the need for classroom order, student motivation, teacher efficiency, alternative student grouping arrangements, and student feedback about teaching…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Environment, Grade 11, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)

Ridley, Olivia – English Journal, 1983
Discusses using Utopian and dystopian literature in grade 11 and grade 12 English courses to help replace fright over the world's future with concern and commitment to needed action. (MM)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction, Futures (of Society)