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Download full textGoodman, Steven – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
This case study examines the learning, identity and language development experienced by "overage" 8th-grade students who have been left behind two or more years in their New York City middle school and are participating in an extended-day video documentary program. The students practise a range of literacy skills naturally embedded in…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
Direct linkCoash, Vicki; Watkins, Karen – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2005
At Santa Maria Middle School in southwest Phoenix, Arizona, teachers have decided to maintain their relationships with their students by looping through sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Here, they describe the results of the first three years of the program, discussing the development of their team's priorities and the strategies they embraced…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Looping (Teachers), Teacher Student Relationship
Roderick, Melissa; Nagaoka, Jenny; Allensworth, Elaine – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
In 1996, Chicago became the epicenter for this debate when it "ended social promotion" in the third, sixth, and eighth grades. While not the first, Chicago's initiative has been the most sustained to date and has produced the clearest evidence of positive as well as negative results. Test scores rose rapidly after the institution of…
Descriptors: Testing, Social Promotion, High Stakes Tests, Scores
