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Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: A Practical Guide. Third Edition
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Rakow, Susan – Prufrock Press Inc., 2020
"Educating Gifted Students in Middle School: A Practical Guide" (3rd ed.) helps educators with the challenging task of understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school. This revised and updated third edition: (1) Provides a rationale and framework that middle schools can use to fill the service gap for gifted and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Student Needs
The Essential Middle School. Second Edition.
Wiles, Jon; Bondi, Joseph – 1993
This book takes readers through the steps that school personnel encounter in planning and developing a middle school. Chapter 1 outlines the rationale, origin, advantages, functions, and tasks of a middle school, along with setting parameters for its unique identity. Chapter 2 identifies the target population, emerging adolescents, and their…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Facing the Challenges of Whole-School Reform. New American Schools after a Decade.
Berends, Mark; Bodilly, Susan J.; Kirby, Sheila Nataraj – 2002
New American Schools (NAS) was formed in 1991 to create and develop whole-school designs that would be adopted by schools throughout the country in order to improve student performance. This book is a retrospective on NAS and draws together the finding from RAND research. Chapter 1, the introduction, gives an overview of NAS, RAND's purpose and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Design, Program Development
Beyond Tracking: Multiple Pathways to College, Career, and Civic Participation
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Oakes, Jeannie, Ed.; Saunders, Marisa, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2008
"Beyond Tracking" responds to the a sobering assessment of American high schools by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The book's authors clearly distinguish their use of the term "multiple pathways" from any updated version of the tracking system that marked so many American high schools during…
Descriptors: Evidence, High Schools, Democracy, Second Language Learning
Schools in the Middle: Developing a Middle-Level Orientation. The Practicing Administrator's Leadership Series.
McKay, Jack A. – 1995
This handbook was designed to help school administrators, teachers, and community members make a successful transition from a junior high school to a middle school. The focus is on the process rather than content. Chapter 1 provides an example of how one junior high school faculty and administration made the shift to a middle school. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Institutional Mission, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
School-focused Inservice: Descriptions and Discussion.
Howey, Kenneth R., Ed.; And Others – 1981
The characteristics and structures of school-focused inservice teacher education are explored by educators and researchers in 16 essays. An introductory article gives the rationale for more and better school-focused inservice education, particularly because of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142). School-focused…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Environment, Faculty Development, Individualized Programs
Quality Child Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Administrators and Teachers.
Cromwell, Ellen S. – 1994
This book is designed as a guide for implementing quality child care environments at preschool and school-age levels for children ages 1 through 10. Evolving from a child-centered philosophy, the book contains six integrated and interdependent sections that respectively, provide an overview of child care and discuss child care center design,…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices