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Moore, Leslie C. – Childhood Education, 2012
Millions of Muslim children around the world participate in Qur'anic schooling. For some, this is their only formal schooling experience; others attend both Qur'anic school and secular school. Qur'anic schooling emphasizes memorization and reproduction (recitation, reading, and transcription) of Qur'anic texts without comprehension of their…
Descriptors: Literacy, Muslims, Foreign Countries, Christianity
Lipsitz, Joan; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Introduces articles in the special "Kappan" section drawing primarily on data from an ongoing longitudinal study (the Illinois Middle Grades Network), Indiana's middle Grades Improvement Program, the national Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative, and Michigan's Middle Start Initiative. Each project used Robert Felner's Middle…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Adolescents, Educational Change, Intellectual Development