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Everyone's Grass Is Not Greener

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Gross, Mel – NASSP Bulletin, 1975

Article discussed a program wherein students from the inner city get the chance to visit a suburban school to realize how students there function. (RK)

Descriptors: Inner City, Program Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Student Exchange Programs

Catching Up: Effect of the Talent Development Ninth-Grade Instructional Interventions in Reading and Mathematics in High-Poverty High Schools

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Balfanz, Robert; Legters, Nettie; Jordan, Will – NASSP Bulletin, 2004

Little is known about the feasibility and rapidity with which the academic learning of students who enter high school multiple years behind grade level can be accelerated. This study uses multiple regression analyses of standardized test and survey data from high-poverty high schools in two large urban districts to evaluate initial effects of the…

Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Talent Development, Grade 9, High Schools