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Corbett, Dick; Wilson, Bruce – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article briefly describes the central tenets of a program several low-income middle schools implemented to remove failure as a choice students could make in completing their assignments. Instead of doling out Fs for poor and nonexistent work, teachers devised a variety of options students had to follow to demonstrate eventual mastery of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grading, Student Reaction, Student Attitudes
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Mayher, William S. – Social Education, 1985
How students and teachers in a private secondary school started a chapter of Amnesty International, the international human rights organization that received the 1977 Nobel Prize for Peace, is described. The many positive results of the experience are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, High Schools, International Cooperation, International Organizations
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Bottomley, Steven; Chandler, David; Morgan, Eleanor; Helmerhorst, Erik – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2006
A new computer-based molecular visualization tool has been developed for teaching, and learning, molecular structure. This java-based jmol Amalgamated Molecular Visualization Learning Environment (jAMVLE) is platform-independent, integrated, and interactive. It has an overall graphical user interface that is intuitive and easy to use. The…
Descriptors: Visualization, Educational Environment, Molecular Structure, Biotechnology
Scholastic Inc., New York, NY. – 1997
This resource book contains reviews, written by children, of 375 "can't put down" children's books. Reviews were selected from over 10,000 submissions, the results of a national survey in which children reviewed their favorite books. The book makes it easy to locate books by listing: (1) title; (2) author; (3) number of pages; (4) genre…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing
Handley, Herbert M., Ed. – 1986
In this module, developed by the Research Applications for Teaching (RAFT) project, preservice teachers study the major types of classroom interactions which occur between teachers and students and review the research findings showing how these interactions are related to effective teaching. Much effort is spent on describing procedures for…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis