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Siskin, Leslie Santee, Ed.; Little, Judith Warren, Ed. – 1995
Subject departments form the primary organizational unit of the high school. The chapters in this book illuminate the ways in which departments shape the views and practice of individual teachers, serve as a locus of professional community, and express institutional and social values. The book examines the implications of subject affiliation and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Departments, High Schools

Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Epstein, Joyce L. – Elementary School Journal, 1993
Summarizes research on middle level schools and students that contributes to ongoing debates concerning grade span, school size, grouping of students, departmentalization, curriculum, instruction, advisory groups, interdisciplinary teaming, school-transition activities, extra-help programs, and student evaluation practices in the middle grades.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Adolescents, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development