Acknowledgments
Forward
Introduction
1. The Current State of Urban Middle Schools
2. The Nativity School Model
3. Nativity School Structures and Programs
4. Academic Success
5. Social, Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical Development
6. Instruction and Instructional Quality in Nativity Schools
7. Costs, Funding, and Governance
8. Summary of Findings, Conclusions, and Implications
Appendix A: The Schools, Their Students, and Their Teachers
Appendix B: Procedures and Instruments
Appendix C: Attendance Rates and Standardized Test Results for Individual Schools
Appendix D: Comparison of Means of Student Self-Perceptions and Perceptions of Environment for Eight Nativity and Two Traditional Parochial Schools
Notes
References
Index