High Schools That Work

High Schools That Work

Academic Achievement in the Middle Grades: What Does Research Tell Us?

By Rafael Heller, Sarah Calderon and Elliott Medrich of MPR Associates Inc. and Gene Bottoms, Sondra Cooney and Caro Feagin of SREB

This literature review surveys contemporary scholarship on academic achievement in the middle grades to assess the state of middle grades education and determine what led to reform.

Keywords: middle grades achievement, transition, middle grades research, teacher certification

(02V47) Price: $2 each/$1 each for 10 or more; 20 pages

Goal that it reflects: 3. Achievement in the middle grades for all groups of students exceeds national averages and performance gaps are closed.

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