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Fenzel, L. Mickey; Monteith, Rosalind H. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2008
Much continues to be written about the failure of U.S. schools to provide a quality education for at-risk urban students. Private Nativity model schools have been instituted in response to the need to provide quality education at the middle school level for such students. As the number of these and other alternative middle schools increases, a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Extended School Day, Middle Schools, Minority Group Children
Bain, Helen Pate; Jacobs, Roseanne – Streamlined Seminar, 1990
The impact of class size reduction at the early levels on student achievement in various states is discussed in this report. The Tennessee Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) study, a statewide longitudinal evaluation of the effects of class size on student achievement and development in primary grades K-3, analyzed demographic and basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education