In this research, two questions related to arts integration are studied: First, the extent to which sixth and seventh grade students' language arts and mathematics performance, as well as their engagement with school are positively impacted by classroom settings in which theater strategies are integrated into language arts instruction; and second,…

During the 2004-05 school year, Parkview Elementary School experienced a dramatic shift from a focus on authentic assessment and responsive, individualized teaching to a one-size-fits-all approach to literacy assessment and instruction. In an effort to boost test scores, the district mandated the use of Open Court Reading, a scripted language arts…

Demonstrates how minority "group" behaviors and beliefs can have complex and powerful effects on individual learning in the classroom. (HTH)

Describes how a remedial instructor joined forces with a regular classroom teacher and developed learning contexts that would enable students with learning difficulties to experience success at academic tasks through shared learning. (HTH)

Explores the cooperation and resistance teachers often encounter as they begin to use a whole language approach in their classrooms, and discusses whole language as a teaching attitude--returning the freedom of learning to students, but still with requisite responsibilities for providing students with all the options from which they may choose.…