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March 1987 | Volume 44 | Number 6

Improving Learning Conditions for Students at Risk

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Guest Editorial / I Know They Can Learn Because I've Taught Them

Helene Hodges

Early Schooling and the Nation's Future

Ernest L. Boyer

Principal Leadership and Student Achievement

Richard L. Andrews and Roger Soder

New Haven's School-Community Connection

James P. Comer

Accelerated Schools for Disadvantaged Students

Henry M. Levin

Achievement Gains in Self-Contained Chapter 1 Classes in Kansas City

Daniel U. Levine, Steve Holdsworth and Frank D. Aquila

In Defense of Tracking

Charles Nevi

Long-Term Benefits from Direct Instruction

Russell Gersten and Thomas Keating

Libby, Montana, Testifies for Distar

H. Lynn Erickson

Reading Intervention for High-Risk First-Graders

Mary Boehnlein

Synthesis of Research on Bilingual Education

Kenji Hakuta and Laurie J. Gould

At Risk: A View of “Social Advantage”

Roy R. Pellicano

Implementing Thinking Skills Instruction in an Urban District: An Effort to Close the Gap

Belinda Williams

Dispelling Outmoded Beliefs About Student Learning

Kenneth Dunn and Rita Dunn

Making Peer Tutoring Work

Joseph R. Jenkins and Linda M Jenkins

A Program Model for At-Risk High School Students

Gary G. Wehlage, Robert A. Rutter and Anne Turnbaugh

Characteristics of Exemplary Vocational Education Programs Designed to Prevent At-Risk Youth from Dropping Out

James M. Weber and Judith A. Sechler

Enterprise High: Helping School Dropouts Become Self-Supporting Adults

Richard R. Benedict, Richard Snell and Donald Miller

What Research Doesn't Show About Gifted Dropouts

David J. Irvine

The Welfare of Families

Mark J. Stern

Teenage Pregnancy and Economic Self-Sufficiency for Girls: A Sex-Equity Challenge for Schools

Michele Cahill

Voices: The Supervisor / 25 Students for 30 Years

Anne Meek

Trends: Social Studies / An Interdisciplinary Curriculum with Thinking at the Core

Walter C. Parker

Trends: Curriculum Capsules / High School Interdisciplinary Unit Deepens Students' Understanding of Race Relations

Conrad F. Toepfer Jr., Samuel J. Alessi Jr. and James A. Beane

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