Annandale High School, Virginia, has come up with an International Baccalaureate (IB) program for high-achieving students, which also provides essential support for diverse students. The IB program is just one facet of a school culture at Annandale High that aims to increase opportunities for all students.

The US Department of Education designated T. C. Cherry Elementary School in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as a Blue Ribbon School, an honor awarded to only few schools across the nation. The same became possible because they changed the culture of the school from rowdy to calm, from irresponsible to responsible, from noncooperative to cooperative, from…

The International School of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, which serves international students in preschool through middle school, focused a great deal of professional attention on differentiation. The administrators in Malaysian school, by making rounds of classrooms, raised teachers' awareness of differentiated instruction.

A close relationship between teaching quality and student achievement is documented by a steady flow of research since the early 1990s. A cutting-edge rural school is tapping the talent of its National Board-certified teachers to transform teaching and learning.

A principal's role in high leadership capacity schools is discussed. Principals and teachers travel through three phases as their schools build high leadership capacity that sustains improvement.

A diagnostic testing process that automatically records what each student already knows or needs to master to meet all district and state learning standards by the end of the year would not only suggest lessons to assist the students with their learning needs as a whole, but it would also indicate which students need additional, individualized…

Anderson Elementary, a preK-6 school founded in 1886, was dubbed "In Need of Improvement" in 2002 after failing for three years in a row to make adequate yearly progress required under the No Child Left Behind Act. Anderson Elementary, to raise fallen achievement scores, pressed every school professional into the service of student literacy.

The Simon Property Group, United States' largest mall developer, since 1998 has partnered with local public school systems to open 19 alternative public schools in malls in 11 states through its nonprofit Simon Youth Foundation. Lafayette Square's school, with a 200-student capacity is the newest and largest, which according to a watchdog group,…

Teachers use student performance data to continually evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching and make more informed instructional decisions, which is a practice used in student progress monitoring. The teacher, in order to implement student progress monitoring, determines a student's current performance level, identifies achievement goals…

Students' attitudes, interests, and values are enormously important to educators because affective dispositions are powerful predictors of students' subsequent behavior. A remarkably important way to judge schools can be gained by collecting evidence of important affective changes in groups of students over time.

The public schools in the US should go beyond teaching fundamental skills in a democratic society. The teachers should be allowed to interact with students as whole persons and new policies should be developed that treats the schools as a whole community because the future of the children and democracy depends on them.

Progressive educators have given a vision of the whole child and the perspectives of school reforms. The overall mission of the school best serves the young when it reflects a holistic orientation to education.

Teaching the whole child requires that one accept students for who they are rather than for what they do. The effect of unconditional teaching on students and also the conditions that help students flourish and that discourage them are discussed.

A former surgeon has revealed that nutrition and exercise have positive effects on the school environment and also on student academic achievement. Some of the guidelines and recommendations for physical activity that can be adopted in schools are described.

The McComb School District in Mississippi is supporting the fundamental needs of all students and has achieved outstanding results. The challenge of turning around the struggling school system into a successful school is discussed.