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Peer reviewedDelany, Marcia; Toburen, Laura; Hooton, Becky; Dozier, Ann – Educational Leadership, 1998
Distressed by their students' reading failure rate, teachers at two Georgia schools developed a parallel block-scheduling plan that allows for whole-class instruction, direct-instruction miniclasses, and enrichment labs for all students. Success depends on matching creative, resourceful teachers to the enrichment lab positions. Over the past two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Block Scheduling, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The More Effective Schools project, an effort to make the schools better able to solve the basic reading and arithmetic problems of disadvantaged children, brought about a reorganization and expansion of the teaching and administrative staffs of elementary schools in New York City. The combined black and Puerto Rican population in the project…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
