Middle Start: An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents

by Frank Laycock, Stephen J. Cutler, Yinger, et al.

Book Overview

This 1977 book reports on an experimental program that was designed to discover whether a summer of intensive academic work and recreation on a college campus could significantly improve the educational performance of economically disadvantaged thirteen-year-old children. For three successive summers, sixty-five experimental participants and sixty-five control participants were selected randomly from schools in two large cities and three small cities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521292077
• ISBN13: 9780521292078
• Release Date: September 1977
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"