Turning Points 2000: Educating Adolescents in the 21st Century - Couverture souple

Jackson, Anthony W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807739960 ISBN 13 : 9780807739969

Editeur : Teachers' College Press, 2000

Synopsis

Carnegie Corporation's landmark 1989 report, Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century, focused national attention on the long-neglected needs of adolescent youth. In the following decade, hundreds of middle grades schools implemented Turning Points principles and many others adopted similar and complementary measures. Based on these experiences, Turning Points 2000 refines the ideas contained in the original report by blending the wisdom of both the latest research and the best practice. This seminal volume, written by the principal author of the original report (Anthony W. Jackson) along with one of the main leaders in implementing its principles (Gayle A. Davis): Synthesizes crucial lessons learned from educators attempting to improve middle grades education across the country over the past decade Bridges the gap between education researchers and practitioners by translating a wealth of recent research into practical guidance for front-line educators Signals a new generation of thinking about middle grades education by emphasizing that, in addition to structural changes in classrooms and schools, educators must also make substantial, far-reaching changes in curriculum, student assessment, and instruction in order to improve student learning Directly confronts critical questions such as how heterogeneously grouped (i.e., untracked) students can be successfully educated, why middle grades teachers must be specially licensed to teach young adolescents, and why middle grades instruction must include instruction in reading

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anthony W. Jackson is a director of the Disney Learning Partnership and former program officer at Carnegie Corporation. Gayle A. Davis, former national director of Carnegie's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative, is a faculty research associate at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Teachers' College Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807739960
• ISBN 13: 9780807739969
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible