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Taking Middle Schoolers Out of the Middle |
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From New York Times: This is the second article in a series that looks at changing theories of how middle school should be taught. The two schools, in disparate corners of the nation's largest school system, are part of a national effort to rethink middle school, driven by increasingly well-documented slumps in learning among early adolescents as well as middle school crime rates and stubborn high school dropout rates. The schools share the premise that the way to reverse years of abysmal middle school performance is to get rid of middle schools entirely. Should the nurturing cocoon of elementary school be extended for another three years, shielding 11-year-olds from the abrupt transition to a new school, with new students and teachers, at one of the most volatile times in their lives? K-8 schools, which prevailed 100 years ago, are the more popular alternative in this debate, cropping up from Philadelphia to Baltimore to Milwaukee to New York.
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