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This study examined the effects on academic achievement of offering students enrollment in the Promise Academy charter middle school. The school is sponsored by the Harlem Children's Zone[R], which combines reform-minded charter schools with a web of community services designed to provide a positive and supportive social environment outside of…
Descriptors: Profiles, Urban Environment, Charter Schools, Middle Schools
Direct linkCarlin-Menter, Shannon M.; Shuell, Thomas J. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2003
This study investigates the possibility that multimedia authorship may help students become more proficient writers. Four classes of 8th-grade students in an urban setting participated in the study, which took place over seven successive class periods. Students were given a 7-paragraph article on teen smoking to use in developing a nonlinear…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Urban Environment, Writing (Composition), Writing Strategies
