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Students' Perspective of a Summer Program.
Karges-Bone, Linda – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1990
GATEWAY II is a summer program for fourth and fifth graders in South Carolina which encourages an integrated approach to the visual and performing arts. The program's instructional quality and curriculum creativity level are assessed through observations by a former teacher of gifted children and interviews with student participants. (JDD)
Descriptors: Art Education, Creative Expression, Integrated Activities, Intermediate Grades
Learning by Laptop.
Stevenson, Ken – School Administrator, 1999
About 250 of the Beaufort County, South Carolina school district's 1,200 sixth graders at three middle schools have participated in the School-Book Laptop Project since 1996. Followup studies through seventh grade show that laptops enhanced academic gains among students who traditionally have not succeeded in school. Laptop users consistently…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Benefits
Reducing the Risk of Drug Involvement among Early Adolescents: An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE).
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Harmon, Michele Alicia – Evaluation Review, 1993
DARE's effectiveness in Charleston County (South Carolina) was studied by comparing 341 DARE to 367 non-DARE fifth-grade students. DARE teaches students to recognize and resist social pressures to use drugs. DARE has positive impacts on anti-substance abuse attitudes, assertiveness, positive peer association, association with drug-using peers, and…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Comparative Testing, Drinking, Drug Abuse
An Alternative Program To Improve Student Behavior: The Focus Program.
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Potter, Les; Bulach, Clete – Thresholds in Education, 1996
Describes a South Carolina middle school's efforts to improve student behavior and decrease suspension rates by using a focus-group approach with underachieving seventh graders with behavior problems. Students participated in daily focus-group experiences in which they learned strategies for changing their behavior and improving study skills.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Meeting the Needs of Transescents through Creative Scheduling Techniques.
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Rogers, George M. – 1994
This report describes the flexible scheduling practices of Kennedy Middle School in Aiken, South Carolina and its Interdisciplinary Middle School Program for Advisement, Counseling, and Teaming (IMPACT). The school is organized into 2 sixth-grade, 2 seventh-grade, and 2 eighth-grade teams, each of which contains 6 teachers and 90 to 150 students.…
Descriptors: Courses, Curriculum Design, Discipline Policy, Flexible Scheduling
Self-Esteem and Reaching Out: Implications for Service Learning.
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Miller, Gary M.; Neese, Lynda A. – Professional School Counseling, 1997
Claims that service learning can help middle-school counselors enhance students' self-esteem. Discusses service learning's increasing popularity and its purposes. Describes one such program's initiation in South Carolina which provides tutoring, working with the elderly, and helping the poor. Examines student perceptions of the program and the…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Do Planning Ideas Work? A Look Back.
Chan, Tak Cheung; Ledbetter, David B. – School Business Affairs, 1998
Uses space problems of a 15-year-old South Carolina middle school to illustrate the importance of a proper facility-design process. Planning principles such as change of space function, flexibility, accommodation of technology, structural quality, adequate supervision, and proper maintenance should be revisited. Time is a good test of design and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning, Flexible Facilities, House Plan
An Ethnic Studies Guide and Resource Manual for the Carolinas.
Bonney, Rachel – 1979
An ethnic heritage studies program project was federally funded for the year 1977-78 for the purpose of developing a model curriculum unit (based on the Native Americans of the Carolinas) aimed at the intermediate grades. For purposes of this project, an ethnic group was defined as a social group whose membership may be based on race, religion,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Studies, American Indians