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Peer reviewedAnderson, Lorin W. – Educational Leadership, 1979
Schools have devised several ways to adapt instruction to a wide variety of student abilities and needs. Judged by criteria for what adaptive education should be, most learning for mastery programs look good. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedGeisert, Gene – Educational Leadership, 1979
Historically ranked low on student performance, the New Orleans schools are fighting back with a new program called the Secondary Curriculum Improvement Program. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedKatims, Michael – Educational Leadership, 1979
Chicago's mastery learning program takes into account the complexities of reading and the realities of urban classrooms. Its designers say that if a program does not lead to success, it is not a mastery learning program. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation
