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Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2009
Many educators and parents would agree that it is important for parents to spend time in their children's classrooms, to closely monitor homework, or to read to children at home. Try telling that, though, to a 13-year-old, argues Harvard University researcher Nancy E. Hill. In a series of studies and a new book, Hill makes the case that both…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Parent Participation, Middle Schools, Expectation
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2007
Having developed a technology-based teaching unit on weather that appeared to work well for middle school students, Nancy Butler Songer and her colleagues at the University of Michigan decided in the late 1990s to take the next logical step in their research program: They scaled up. This article discusses lessons learned by several faculty…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle Schools, College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2004
Three decades of mounting academic and testing requirements are snagging growing numbers of students in the 9th grade. "The bulge" is the name education researchers give to the percentage increase in students in the 9th grade over the same period. This article reports on factors that might explain the growing 9th grade bottleneck and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Graduation Rate, Secondary Schools, Grade 10