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Edmunds, Julie A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Early colleges are intended to serve students from populations typically underrepresented in college and to prepare those students with the academic skills and dispositions to succeed in college. Another important attribute of early colleges is that they help students earn college credit during their high school years. Many such early colleges are…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College Readiness, Educational Opportunities, Student Experience
Heath, Shirley Brice; McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991
Depicts adolescents' lively, voluntary involvement in constructive alternatives to the counterproductive teenage ventures filling the morning's newspapers. Successful youth organizations adopt a firm and flexible approach, empower rather than infantilize youths, and have clear goals and membership rules. Many out-of-school settings share features…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Organizations, Developmental Programs, Nonschool Educational Programs
Cohen, Audrey – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Purpose-centered education model identifies broad purpose at each learning stage enabling students to apply their academic learning to meet external challenges. The purpose should involve a socially useful outcome and focus on a substantive knowledge area that is developmentally enriching. Teaching should involve five dimensions of knowledge and…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Bowman, Barbara T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
A developmentally appropriate curriculum can never be standardized in a multicultural community. Thoughtful teachers can use child development principles to make the new context of school meaningful, to attach new kinds of learning to what children have already achieved, and to safeguard children's growing self-image and self-confidence as their…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs, Early Childhood Education
Elkind, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
True educational reform will come about only when we replace the reigning psychometric educational psychology with a developmentally appropriate one. The developmental approach is superior regarding its conception of the learner, the learning process, the information to be acquired, and educational goals. Includes 14 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Riley, Richard W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
The National Governors' Association Task Force on Readiness presented policy recommendations to help at-risk children prepare for school and meet new educational standards. Suggested state initiatives include various outreach and preschool programs for low-income families, assistance with basic skills and teacher training, and incentives and…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Lipsitz, Joan; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
High performing schools for young adolescents are developmentally responsive, academically excellent, and socially equitable. Necessary reform elements include professional development, technical assistance, coordination, networks, data-driven decision making, enlightened leadership, improved teacher preparation, a well-informed public, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Developmental Programs, Early Adolescents, Educational Change