The Touchstones Project: Discussion Classes for Students of All Abilities.

Comber, Geoffrey; And Others

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Publication Date: 1989

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The Touchstones Project: Discussion Classes for Students of All Abilities.

Comber, Geoffrey; And Others

Educational Leadership, v46 n6 p39-42 Mar 1989

Through lively discussions of specially selected texts, students of diverse abilities often discover that they can learn a lot from one another. The Touchstones Project in a Baltimore (Maryland) middle school features group discussion of classical texts. (Author/TE)

Descriptors: Classical Literature, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics, Heterogeneous Grouping, Humanistic Education, Middle Schools, Participation

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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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