Fenzel Improving Urban Middle Schools

Lessons from the Nativity Schools
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9365-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A look at Nativity schools, alternative middle schools that have had great success educating at-risk, urban students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fenzel, L. Mickey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Forward
Introduction 1. The Current State of Urban Middle Schools 2. The Nativity School Model 3. Nativity School Structures and Programs 4. Academic Success 5. Social, Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical Development 6. Instruction and Instructional Quality in Nativity Schools 7. Costs, Funding, and Governance 8. Summary of Findings, Conclusions, and Implications Appendix A: The Schools, Their Students, and Their Teachers
Appendix B: Procedures and Instruments
Appendix C: Attendance Rates and Standardized Test Results for Individual Schools
Appendix D: Comparison of Means of Student Self-Perceptions and Perceptions of Environment for Eight Nativity and Two Traditional Parochial Schools

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

L. Mickey Fenzel is Professor and Chair of Teacher Education at Loyola College in Maryland.