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Perspectives
Question? To assign homework or not to assign homework? To grade homework or not to grade homework? Educators, parents, students—they all have an opinion. So, what is the value of homework and should it be...
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Cathy Vatterott, Lee Jenkins, and Larry Sandomir
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The Nature of Middle Level
Mentoring Needs Nurturing
On a walk in my neighborhood, I passed by a relatively uneventful river birch standing near the sidewalk in the sunshine. I almost looked the other way when I spotted an interesting relationship happening in the...
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Dru Tomlin
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Habla con ellos—Talk to them: Latinas/os, achievement, and the middle grades
Moving bilingual children beyond subordinated categories toward full engagement in relevant and authentic learning that embraces their communities.
Our faculty in the Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte often spends time discussing issues we see within our middle grades program, including with our undergraduate teacher candidates...
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Spencer Salas, Jeanneine P. Jones, Theresa Perez, Paul G. Fitchett, & Scott Kissau
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Summer Legislative Activity
With another school year underway, teachers and students are getting back into the swing of things and sharing stories about how they spent their summer vacations. While school was out, the U.S. Congress ramped up its...
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Bob Wise
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The New Look of Student Leadership
Students learn how to be leaders without having to win an election.
Posters, buttons, rally speeches, and Robert’s Rules of Order have been mainstays of school-level politics for decades. Regardless of grade level, participation is limited to those students who are willing to...
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Sandy Cameli
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PBL: Learning How to Learn
Project-based learning is about more than "doing projects."
We teach children to ask questions at a very early age, then we send them into the secondary school classroom where we ask them to quietly absorb information without questioning it. Project-based learning (PBL)...
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Rachel Erickson
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Exploring Science Through Fine Arts
Integrating the fine arts into science instruction promotes differentiation and encourages exploration.
The middle school years are a pivotal time in students’ understanding of and enthusiasm for science, according to the National Science Teachers Association. Science must be something that students do, not...
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Judy Beck, Laura Kaufmann, & Cece Toole
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Improving Collaboration
Strong family-school collaboration can help all students succeed.
Decades of research confirms that positive parental involvement is critical for students’ success in school, and federal policy mandates effective programs at all school levels; however, parent involvement often...
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Darcy J. Hutchins
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Encouraging Students to Embrace Academic Challenges
As I introduced a new geometry topic to my sixth grade class, one of my students immediately reacted to my mention of a new skill—classification of solid figures—by blurting out, “Again? We know...
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Sandra Vorensky
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The Status of Programs and Practices in America's Middle Schools: Results from Two National Studies
Data from past and present middle level programs and practices supports middle school concept as key factor in highly successful middle schools The early 1900s marked the beginning of American education moving from a...
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C. Kenneth McEwin and Melanie Greene
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