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Grades that Mean Something: Kentucky Develops Standards-Based Report Cards
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Guskey, Thomas R.; Swan, Gerry M.; Jung, Lee Ann – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Nearly all states have standards for student learning and they have assessment programs to measure students' proficiency on those standards. But schools within each state nonetheless are left to develop their own standards-based student report cards as the primary means of communicating information about students' performance. To address the…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, State Standards
Multi-Year Teacher/Student Relationships Are a Long-Overdue Arrangement.
Burke, Daniel L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Despite promising research findings and enthusiastic participants, multiyear teacher/student relationships remain uncommon in U.S. schools. The multiyear approach offers great potential for summertime learning. Ambitious pilot programs in Attleboro and Worcester, Massachusetts, and West Bloomfield, Minnesota, are briefly described. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, House Plan, Multigraded Classes, Pilot Projects
Computer Literacy in the K-8 Curriculum.
Hunter, Beverly; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Describes a 1981-82 pilot project in the use of computers in grades one through eight by six schools in two suburban Washington, DC, school districts. Despite "the many obstacles and barriers to computer literacy," three of the six schools made "amazing progress." (JBM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Options and Opportunities.
Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
To address early care and education challenges, this article outlines some concrete strategies illustrated by several programs, including ALERTA (a multicultural, bilingual approach), the Maryland Certification-Accreditation Project, the High/Scope training of Teacher-Trainers System, a Florida community collaboration project, and the Kennedy…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Multicultural Education
Texas Scholars: Investing in the Future.
Johnson, William; Johnson, Annabel M.; Randolph, Joe; Schmitz, Mary Alice – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
The Texas Scholars Program, a joint business/education venture, is a low-cost program that motivates the "forgotten majority" (lower ranked students) to complete a rigorous academic curriculum preparing them for the labor market or postsecondary education. Since 1989, Eastman Chemical Company business leaders have been…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Minority Groups, Pilot Projects
A Journey Toward Autonomy.
Nathan, Linda; Myatt, Larry – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Explores the progress of Fenway Middle College High School, in its third year as a Boston pilot school (an in-district charter-school alternative). Significant areas of autonomy remain untested. Fenway learned the value of an experienced, caring, diverse faculty; networking and reorganization opportunities; and idealism to counter "bigger is…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Charter Schools, Diversity (Faculty), Diversity (Student)
Multi-Age Teaming: A Real-Life Approach to the Middle School.
Hopping, Linda – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
The multi-age teams (MATs) at one Georgia middle school fostered continuous, individual student progress unachievable in more conventional classrooms. In MAT groups, assignments to classes were based on students' interests, abilities, performance, and other maturational factors, regardless of chronological age. Opportunities for remediation and…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools, Mixed Age Grouping