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5 Ways to Create Relevant Cultures of Learning

A Principal's Reflections

To help build the program, junior academies were created at the middle school to spark interest and function as a feeder pipeline. Specialized Programs Many districts and schools are providing supplements or enhancements to the curriculum to impart more relevance amongst learners. Olive Middle School in New Jersey.

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OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back

The Hechinger Report

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case.

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

What The Research Says About The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status In High School And College Baker and Johnston (2010) conducted a study of middle school-aged students with the purpose of examining the impact SES has on performance during standardized testing. Their study involved 14,049 students across fifty-one middle schools.

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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

The Hechinger Report

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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PROOF POINTS: The surprising effectiveness of having kids study why they failed

The Hechinger Report

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

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Should College Become Part of High School?

ED Surge

All this year, Arensberg walked the halls of the same high school building and ate in the same cafeteria as before, but now most of her classes earned her college credit, and if she stays on track, she’ll get an associate degree at the same time she receives her high school diploma. How is the program going?

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Restorative justice is about more than just reducing suspensions

The Hechinger Report

Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) But is it worth all of that effort?