Breaking Traditions.Schools that have broken with traditional school structure show greater student achievement gains across a wider socio-economic spectrum, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation). A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. . The study examined 11,000 students in 820 high schools nationally. The researchers found greater achievement in schools adopting at least three of these practices: * Teachers often work in interdisciplinary teams interdisciplinary team, n a group that consists of specialists from several fields combining skills and resources to present guidance and information. ; * Teachers have more input on decisions; * Diverse students are grouped together; * Students often keep the same homeroom home·room n. A school classroom to which a group of pupils of the same grade are required to report each day. Noun 1. homeroom throughout high school; * Parents volunteer in school; and * The school is small or a school-within-a-school. |
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