Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautiful fall afternoon not long ago, all 120 eighth-grade students and four of their teachers at the Olson Middle School in Minneapolis, Minn., walked across a grassy playing field down to nearby Shingle Creek. For the past five weeks, they had been raising monarch butterflies--from caterpillar through chrysalis--and now 30 of them were ready for release...
...largest in California, decided to change over to "standards-based" education and to initiate a mandatory school-uniform policy. At the same time, Stanford principal Judi Gutierrez embarked on a program to restructure and reform her school. She created schools within the school, one for each of the three grades, with a "learning director" heading a core group of teachers. She allowed the students to pick their own mottoes--in the sixth grade, it's "Begin the Journey...Stride into Excellence." Gutierrez also stressed staff development, sending teachers to seminars and workshops using Title I funds...
Little changes can mean a lot. Each classroom has a nameplate with the educational background of the teacher. Kids with a grade-point average of 2.0 or better get T shirts and patches that designate their achievements. A special grant pays for eight college students to monitor 50 kids considered "at risk...
...teachers share a common passion, one Stanford staff member fairly pants at the opportunity to help students. She is Apache Rose, a four-year-old German shorthaired pointer and a licensed therapy dog belonging to physical-education teacher Monica Havelka. Apache was brought to school for the seventh-grade programs in health, science and phys ed, but she has become so popular that she now has kids of diverse backgrounds talking about her. She even has her own program to train older kids to handle therapy dogs--Apache Rose and Friends, or simply and cutely...
...idea had been to create a secondary school in New York City's East Harlem in which less was more. Smaller and fewer classes meant increased individual attention and a deeper understanding of subjects. She built the school a grade at a time, starting with the seventh in '85, until the school had a Division I for seventh- and eighth-graders, a Division II for ninth- and 10th-graders and a Senior Institute for 11th- and 12th-graders--546 students in all this year, with 41 full-time staff members...