Three Midwest Rural School Districts’ First Year Transition to the Four Day School Week

Extending the School Day or School Year

The First Year in School

This is a delightful and very valuable book. It considers the whole personality of the five year old child in the first year in school, with affection and understanding, but without sentimentality. The author has a definite ideal of what school life ought to be for children. She condemns very outspokenly what school too often offers the five year old. "Many classrooms today are slums." Neverthe...

Is Bigger Better? A Comparison of Rural School Districts

This project was sponsored by a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a legislative agency of the Pennsyl-vania General Assembly. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania is a bipartisan, bicameral legislative agency that serves as a resource for rural policy within the Pennsylvania General Assembly. It was created in 1987 under Act 16, the Rural Revitalization Act, to promote and sustain the ...

Transition from Middle School to High School

Why Is It Important to Examine the Transition from Middle School to High School? The transition from middle school to high school is accompanied by both anticipation and anxiety (Mizelle & Irvin, 2000; Morgan & Hertzog, 2001; Zeedyk, Gallacher, Henderson, Hope, Husband, & Lindsay, 2003). Transition is receiving increased attention due to the fact that ninth grade course failures and high school...

No Treatment Day School.

At the No Treatment Day School, less than 15% of students used the dormitory during the school week. Located in the heart of a reservation and serving local students, the K-12 school enrolled over 1,000 students. The site received Therapeutic Residential Model funding for the 2001-2002 school year. Initial evaluation of this site found an array of daunting problems throughout the school structu...