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University of Indiana Study
A study at the University of Indiana, in listening to lunch-table chatter
of middle school students, concluded that "teen gossip serves a positive
purpose, that of establishing and enforcing a set of shared values and
social mores.... It is establishing an oral tradition of mutually acceptable
appearance and behavior". This just underlines the importance of what
Special Purpose schools and programs do when they take steps to ensure
there is positive peer pressure.
Tom Bratter Reports on John Dewey
Academy Graduate
Tom Bratter reports a John Dewey Academy graduate plans to run for student
body office this Spring at Wellesley College. She is on the Deans list
and is making the right steps toward becoming an attorney. Four years
ago she was trying to find friends through drugs and sex, and was being
used as a pawn between her fighting parents. The final straw was when
she ran the family car into a tree while intoxicated. She arrived at
John Dewey Academy angry, trusting no-one, and facing the prospect of
hospitalization. Her experience at John Dewey Academy made all the difference,
which is a very common story to all those who work in or with Special
Purpose Schools or programs.
IECA Members Now Have Their Own
Practice
IECA Members Frank Stephenson and Lynn Whittle now have their own separate
practices.
Larry Culp of Loveland Farms
Explains Academic Assessment
Larry Culp, of Loveland Farms in Montana, explains the way he does an
academic assessment with his new students is to help each girl discuss
each grade of school and talk about what is remembered. It is an on-going
process with each student, and includes looking at emotions, at attitudes
toward authority figures, as well as what academic learning occurred.
Remembering the teacher and school for each grade is a handy memory
aid to finding when the student stopped asking "Why?," when the student
got angry at her parents, or when she gave up.
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