At Houston's Dodson Elementary School, a magnet school with a Montesorri program, students work independently with an assortment of manipulable materials which help them teach themselves. (SK)

Overwhelming scientific and anecdotal evidence indicates that the elementary school experience significantly shapes children's lives. This report examines the history of elementary education, and describes alternatives such as nongraded schools. The first part of the report describes the roots of elementary education in the United States,…

This proposed magnet school program for individualized learning is intended to promote desegregation and provide improved educational opportunties for students from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds in Cleveland. A detailed description of the program's curriculum covers subject content, learning objectives, instructional strategies, anticipated…

This model portfolio of school choices describes the following four types of schools available in the Detroit Public Schools: (1) specialty high schools at four locations, which offer scientific and artistic studies, aerospace technology instruction, science and applied technology, and a rigorous college preparatory curriculum; (2) the high school…

The primary goal of the Early Learning Laboratory is to reduce minority group isolation and promote interracial understanding and cooperation in a Montessori-type setting with a language development approach. The 300 students, ages 4-1/2 to 7 years, represent a racially mixed population appropriate to approved criteria. The behavioral competency…