Grade Configurations for Educating Young Adolescents Are Still Crazy after All These Years

Autor/in	Mizell, Hayes
Titel	Grade Configurations for Educating Young Adolescents Are Still Crazy after All These Years
Quelle	In: Middle School Journal (J3), 37 (2005) 1, S.14-23 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0094-0771
Schlagwörter	Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Middle Schools; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Early Adolescents; Urban Schools; Secondary Education; Primary Education; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Junior High School Students; Louisiana; Maryland; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grouping; Gruppenbildung; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; High school; Oberschule; Sekundarstufe I; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Sekundarbereich; Primarbereich; Elementarunterricht; Middle schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Junior High Schools
Abstract	Many school systems have so much difficulty when it comes to educating students between the ages of 12 and 15. There seems to be perennial dissatisfaction with how public schools educate these "young adolescents." The grade configurations of schools varied, but the dominant pattern was eight years of primary school followed by four years of high school. At the end of the 19th century, a movement began to start secondary education at the seventh rather than the ninth grade. In the decade between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, several factors contributed to an emerging critique of the junior high school. Educators complained that junior high schools mimicked the high school model "with its emphasis on content rather than exploration, departmentalization rather than integration, and an adherence to a rigid schedule." This article presents a chronology of the changes that has been made in the grade configurations for educating young adolescents. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10