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Download full textNepon-Sixt, Janice L. – 1998
This project was designed and implemented to help facilitate the addition of a high school program to an existing independent elementary/middle school by promotion of a ninth grade at the target school and its eventual transfer to a new independent high school. An objective of the project was to see if 40 percent of parents from independent…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Education, Educational Facilities Planning, Grade 9
Kieslich, Anita F. – 1999
Noting the need for parents, schools, and community members to work together to meet the needs of unsupervised adolescents during after-school hours, this practicum was designed to address those needs in one middle school. Lack of adolescent after-school supervision was documented by means of a parent interest survey distributed to parents of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Childhood Needs, Early Adolescents, Latchkey Children
Folsom, Kathy – 1994
A program was designed to improve the reading interests of students in a rural middle school. An analysis of the problem indicated that the students were not reading many library books. One of the probable causes for the lack of interest was related to the small amount of recreational reading done by students. A search of the literature revealed…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Greaser, Thomas C., Jr. – 1995
This practicum was designed to provide an after-school activity program to middle school students not engaged in interscholastic sports. Utilizing community volunteers, an enrichment-prevention program that featured 19 different activities in 2 class sessions per week over a 10-week period was developed and implemented. Activities included…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Involvement, Enrichment Activities, Intermediate Grades
Arrington, Alpheus, Jr. – 1989
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a middle school program in King and Queen County in Virginia's Middle Peninsula designed to improve the achievement of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students whose achievement scores were consistently lower than national and state averages. A literature review and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Continuity, Elementary School Students
Lawson, Stanley G. – 1991
This proposal describes the organization and implementation of a "World Steel Drum Ensemble" as a strategy to solve the problems of low minority academic achievement, high minority discipline incidents, and minority isolationism. The drum ensemble studied and performed music from Caribbean, Hispanic, and African heritages in a middle…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, African Culture, Cultural Awareness, Discipline
Bigelow, Rita-Anne Z. – 1993
This practicum was designed and implemented to reduce the underrepresentation of minority students in gifted programs, and to help minority students improve their academic achievement in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The practicum involved examining the gifted student nomination/identification process to see if instruments or procedures were…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cultural Differences
