Background The authors of The Successful Middle School: This We Believe characterize the middle grades as “a finding place” where “the general approach for the entire curriculum at this level is one of exploration” (Bishop & Harrison, 2021, p. 29). [Young adolescents] need … the chance to conduct science experiments, though they may never choose
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For immediate release. May 1, 2023 AMLE Presents Initial Findings from its Successful Middle School Research Project Dr. Sarah Pennington attended last month’s American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, one of the world’s largest gatherings of education researchers and policymakers, to present the initial findings of AMLE’s Successful Middle School Research Project. Dr. Pennington,
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Reader Note: This article provides a recap of a recent study featured in Research in Middle Level Educatoin Online. It is also the subject of Episode 3 of AMLE’s Middle School Research to Practice Podcast series. You can listen to the full discussion or enjoy the written recap here. Before South Carolina offered a specialized
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As I drove my 10-year-old daughter Halden to school one recent morning, we caught the end of a news report on the radio about the war in Ukraine. “Some Russian people are against the war,” Halden stated confidently. “It’s just that they don’t get to hear about what’s really happening in Ukraine.” As we talked,
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