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Middle schools --- United States.

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Leeds and Marshak examine the benefits of multiage classrooms by exploring how such classrooms function and provide a detailed description of an individual unit designed to maximize the potential of this non-traditional form of intermediate education. By describing the benefits multiage classrooms provide in terms of personal, social, and academic achievement, plus outlining a process for teachers to become successful in this environment, this book is bound to interest administrators, teachers, and researchers in education.

Education --- Nongraded schools. --- Experimental methods.

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Self-evaluation in schools sits at the top of the national agenda in response to an awareness that performance tables and inspector's reports can only tell a partial story. Schools are now encouraged to raise questions about 'How are we doing?' and 'How do we know?'.Self-Evaluation: What's in it for Schools? demystifies school self-evaluation and encourages schools to be self-critical and self-confident. The book helps schools and teachers develop the necessary confidence to work with evaluation tools. Accessible and packed with case studies, it tackles the issues that are a

Educational evaluation. --- Evaluation. --- Schools. --- Schools -- Evaluation. --- Theory & Practice of Education --- Education --- Social Sciences

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Under the UK Labour Government (1997-2001) there have been clear signs of a willingness to revive the 'pastoral' curriculum in schools and to develop stronger links between the health and eductaion sectors. This book, based on empirical work undertaken in England and throughout Europe, explores such government policy and in particular the development of the health promoting school.The authors provide a detailed examination of the health promoting school movement in Europe, including application of concepts, policies, research and practice to the National Healthy Schools Standards in Englan

Elementary schools --- High schools --- Social skills --- Health promotion services --- Study and teaching

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Nick Adnett and Peter Davies develop an economic analysis of schooling markets, emphasizing both the strengths and weaknesses of orthodox analyses. They explain the economic and social contexts that have generated the widespread desire to reform state schooling and develop a systematic analysis of the key policy components examining both theory and international evidence. The authors employ a unique framework based upon economic analysis that is informed by research performed by educationalists and other social scientists. Markets for Schooling is des

Economic aspects. --- Education. --- Education-- Economic aspects-- Cross-cultural stud. --- Education, Special Topics --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Public schools --- School choice --- Educational change --- Economic aspects --- Choice of school --- Parents' choice of school --- School, Choice of --- Schools --- Common schools --- Grammar schools --- School funds --- Secondary schools --- Selection