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Green, Daniel G. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Searching for ways to help students feel more connected to one another and to the school community as a whole, a junior high school implemented the social house approach. Social houses divide students into multiple social units, rather than into separate academic entities. Each unit has its own identity and theme.The different groups mix during…
Descriptors: House Plan, Junior High Schools, Junior High School Students, Student School Relationship
Robinson-Lewis, G. – 1991
The School Within-a-School Program (SWAS) of the Kansas City (Missouri) Public Schools was established as an intervention/reform program, which became part of the court-ordered desegregation program, for at-risk students in grades 7 and 9. In the last year of evaluation, the group consisted of 678 students. This summative longitudinal evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Enrollment, Grade 7