Getting the Mission Right in the Middle Grades

By Joan Lord

This report, a part of the Challenge to Lead education goals series, documents SREB states' progress in getting middle grades students ready for high school. The analyses are based on scores and standards of state achievement tests and on results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The report also describes promising practices for preparing middle grades students for high school, based on technology applications that have been implemented in SREB states and on the work of SREB's Making Middle Grades Work.

Keywords: algebra, gaps, NAEP, state standards, MMGW

Goals that it reflects: Achievement in the middle grades for all groups of students exceeds national averages and performance gaps are closed.

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Catalog information: (04E05); 28 pages; 2004; $5

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