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Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Hall, Catherine J. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2007
A driving force in standards-based educational reform was the 1983 release of "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" (National Commission of Excellence in Education [NCEE], 1983). The report called for "an end to the minimum competency testing movement and the beginning of a high-stakes testing movement that would raise the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
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Brighton, Catherine M.; Hertberg, Holly L. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
The student population in contemporary public middle schools is growing increasingly more diverse. While heterogeneously grouped classrooms are consistent with middle school philosophy as well as recommendations from leading middle school advocacy groups, many teachers in these settings seem to downplay the differences among the students and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Educational Philosophy, Middle School Teachers, Student Diversity