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Teachworth, Martin D. – Science and Children, 1991
Presents a teacher-made instructional material that can be used to help students understand and retain the concepts of magnet and magnetic field. Doughnut-shaped magnets levitate above each other when placed over a post with like poles facing each other. Instructions are provided to make the device. (MDH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Demonstrations (Educational), Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Tonegawa, Keiko – School Administrator, 1991
The Japanese educational reform movement is concentrating on increased individuality, lifelong learning, and the need to cope with societal changes, notably internationalization and the spread of information media. The American education system is admirable for experimenting with dropout programs, awards for improved student performance, magnet…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competition, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development

Hunter-Boykin, Harriet – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1993
Recruitment of high school students is an easy way to increase the number and quality of African-American students preparing to teach. The article describes a program that provides a four-year college preparatory experience within a Washington, DC high school for students interested in teaching careers. (SM)
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Cultural Awareness

Crawford, John; Freeman, Sharon – ERS Spectrum, 1996
A Nebraska district surveyed parents' reasons for sending their children to private or Catholic schools. Reasons could be grouped in categories: concerns and issues (such as religion) that public schools cannot address; and concerns (such as discipline, values, curriculum, and academic rigor) public schools could address by changing their programs…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Catholic Schools, Curriculum, Discipline

Yon, Maria; Nesbit, Catherine; Algozzine, Bob – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1998
Notes that magnet schools are part of reform desegregation efforts in many school districts. Describes a study that explored perceptions of isolation among parents of students from different races in upper elementary and middle school magnet programs. Characterized the sensitivity of teachers to isolation in their schools. (Author/LPP)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Magnet Schools, Middle Schools
Educational Facility Planner, 2002
Describes the building design of the award-winning West Metro Education Program Interdistrict Downtown School in Minneapolis, including the educational context and design goals. Includes information on the size, construction costs, architects, and contractors. Also includes floor plans and photographs. (EV)
Descriptors: Architecture, Awards, Building Design, Building Plans
Colleary, Shawn – Understanding Our Gifted, 2004
This article features the Challenge School, a magnet school in the CherryCreek School District in Colorado that focuses on academically advanced, motivated, and gifted students. The school was developed as an alternative to best meet the needs of these students. The Challenge School focuses on high student achievement and commensurate academic…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Academically Gifted, Teaching Methods, Special Needs Students
Buxton, Cory A. – Science Education, 2005
This paper reports on a 3-year study of a half-day urban magnet high school founded upon a desire to provide rigorous science, math, and technology experiences to students who would not otherwise have access to such educational opportunities. Using the theoretical lens of how a model of an educated person gets culturally produced within the school…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Academic Achievement, Urban Schools, Magnet Schools
Matthews, Catherine E.; Cook, Helen M. – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2004
A partnership between a university and a science and technology magnet school brings a renowned herpetologist. Dr. Meg Stewart, to involve third-graders in her studies of coqui frogs. These students prepared to meet this scientist with a series of lesson plans (eight activities and four lab lessons) to learn the anatomy, behavior, and diversity of…
Descriptors: Zoology, Grade 3, Partnerships in Education, Anatomy
Archbald, Douglas A.; Kaplan, David – International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies, 2004
Inter- and intra-district public school choice, vouchers, tuition tax credits and other forms of school choice have been advocated for decades, in large part on grounds that the market forces engendered will improve public education. There are many studies of school choice policies and programs and a large theoretical literature on school choice,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Magnet Schools, Tax Credits, School Choice
Jacob, Brian; Springer, Matthew G. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2007
Pay for performance (PFP) is once again gaining popularity within education. This study examines teacher attitudes toward PFP policies, and how these views vary by teacher experience, subject area specialization, grade level(s) taught, educational background, personality characteristics, risk and time preferences, and feelings of efficacy. Data…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Experience, Educational Background, Personality Traits
Brown, John Seely – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Today's students are comfortable satisfying their immense curiosity on their own. This capacity for independent learning is essential to their future well-being, since they are likely to have multiple careers and will need to continually learn new skills they were not taught in college. Students will need to feel comfortable working in…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Educational Environment, College Students, Teamwork
Fuller, Bruce – 1995
Although the school-choice movement has spread quickly, little time has been taken to assess whether the claimed benefits of school choice have actually been realized. This policy brief summarizes empirical evidence to date and addresses the following questions: Who gains from school choice and who loses? Do innovative school organizations arise…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education
Hausman, Charles S.; Goldring, Ellen B. – 1996
Despite their common goal, reformers promoting school choice and those seeking ways to improve schools through more effective principal leadership have remained for the most part disconnected. This paper presents findings of a study that examined differences in teachers' ratings of effective principal leadership in magnet and nonmagnet schools in…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Leadership Effectiveness
Nelson, Mark D.; Bauch, Patricia A. – 1997
The perceptions of students about caring teachers were studied in secondary Catholic and public magnet schools. Both types of schools were schools of choice, attended through student and family choice and not assignment by neighborhood. The sample for the study came from a national, federally funded project that studied the relationship between…
Descriptors: Black Students, Catholic Schools, Definitions, High School Seniors