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ERIC Number: ED147384
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 33
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Affective Education in Philadelphia. Fastback 102.
Newberg, Norman A.
This small booklet describes the Affective Education Program established in Philadelphia in 1967. The program uses various classroom techniques such as the problems, plans, and sharing classroom structure to foster student leadership and cooperation; using group roles, feedback, and processing; and being responsive to student concerns. In February, 1975, the program inaugurated, at two separate sites, a Program called School for All Ages. The program is designed to speak to the problems of age segregation and the negative aspects of competition. The Schools for All Ages is but one of several alternative structures sponsored and developed by this program. Others include an alternative high school and a parent education program. It is indicated that the methods used by the Affective Education Program yield statistically significant results for students when measured on standardized reading tests at the elementary, middle, and senior high school levels. Three aspects of the program have been cited by Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as exemplary projects worthy of validation: the Communications Network, which focuses on improving listening, speaking, reading, and writing; the Teacher Expectation Project, which raises teachers' awareness of how low expectations influence their students' abilities to learn; and the School for All Ages. (Author/AM)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Authoring Institution: Phi Delta Kappa, Bloomington, IN.
Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
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