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Ellerbrock, Cheryl R.; Main, Katherine; Falbe, Kristina N.; Franz, Dana Pomykal – Education Sciences, 2018
The middle school concept, aimed at creating a more developmentally responsive learning environment for young adolescents, gained a stronghold in the later part of the 20th century. Proponents of this concept have argued continually for the holistic implementation of its six key characteristics if its benefits are to be realized. These…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Middle School Students
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Murris, Karin; Haynes, Joanna – Global Education Review, 2020
Discourses and relations of child/adult and early education are super-permeated with ideas and practices of authority and boundary-making. In early years' practices, deeply important beliefs and assumptions about who or what has authority and who or what should create the boundaries of everyday activity often go unquestioned. This produces…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers
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Kramer, Steven L. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
A study of British Columbia high schools found that block scheduling can endanger mathematics achievement. Reduced math scores were attributed to irregular planning time, little opportunity to modify curriculum; and the provincial examination system. Longer time blocks cannot succeed without adequate planning time, curricular restructuring, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Block Scheduling, Foreign Countries, High Schools