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Humphrey, Jack W.; Lipsitz, Joan; McGovern, John T.; Wasser, Judith Davidson – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Since 1987, Indiana Middle Grades Reading Network, funded by Lily Endowment, initiated a variety of projects designed to promote young adolescents' reading. A Reading Bill of Rights was developed to create communities of readers. Some valuable lessons emerged: attention must be given to teens' reading needs; schools must be central; students need…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Financial Support, Intermediate Grades
Hopping, Linda – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
The multi-age teams (MATs) at one Georgia middle school fostered continuous, individual student progress unachievable in more conventional classrooms. In MAT groups, assignments to classes were based on students' interests, abilities, performance, and other maturational factors, regardless of chronological age. Opportunities for remediation and…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools, Mixed Age Grouping
Elmore, Randy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Articles in this special section by middle-school educators describe the multi-age team (MAT) experiment at a Georgia middle school from 1993 onward. In 1992, a project inspired by "Turning Points" recommendations addressing teacher and administrator empowerment was launched at another Georgia school. (MLH)
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Practices, Excellence in Education, Institutional Characteristics
