For Parents of Gifted Children
Imagine the thoughts of fifth-grade students preparing to enter middle school. What sorts of questions are forming in their minds? What fears make their hearts race and palms sweat? Plenty! The student may be asking: What is middle school like?...
Gifted children often talk a lot. Their early vocabulary astounds their audiences and attracts amazed praise. The frequent and extraordinary approval reinforces their verbal skills and, by classical conditioning, causes them to feel intelligent while they’re talking. It’s no wonder...
Because middle school education (grades 6-8) in the United States has struggled in terms of academic achievement, school districts in several states are returning to the K-8 model. Reform is underway in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,...
Geiser, Debra Bell Model Program/Schools Research Briefs Research and Theory
Foreign language programs are often one of the first items to be scrutinized and cut when elementary, middle, and high schools in the U.S. face poor performance evaluations or budget crunches. However, many studies have demonstrated the benefits of...
Abbott, Martha G. Caccavale, Therese Sullivan Educational Strategies Expert's Forum Stewart, Ken
There is a consensus among linguists and educators that second language acquisition is valuable in itself as personal educational development, but studies have shown that children who acquire a second language tend to do better in cognitive functioning and...
Okay, confession time: my idea of fun (!) is to be thrown in a country where I speak 2 words of the language and have to navigate my way through it by speaking to the natives. Not in English. You...
Ninety percent of middle-school students state they plan to attend college. However a deeper look into a study released by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and Phi Delta Kappa International reveals that only 66 percent actually go on...
By now we’ve all heard about the “achievement gap” that No Child Left Behind was enacted to address. But a survey of middle school students reveals an “information gap” between their educational goals and their ability to follow through...