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Storz, Mark G. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2008
In interviews with over 250 urban young adolescents, many students make it clear that they are acutely aware of the educational inequities that exist in their schools and that these inequities are having a negative impact on their education. Student voice is used to highlight urban middle school students' perspectives on the quality of their…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Urban Youth, Student Attitudes, Educational Quality
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Storz, Mark G.; Nestor, Karen R. – Middle School Journal, 2003
Argues that rigorous, detailed academic standards are driving school improvement efforts instead of student needs as voiced by the students themselves. Offers support, through student interviews, for the notion that a challenging, integrative, and exploratory curriculum should be the standard for developmentally responsive practice and that this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Improvement