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Middle School

Middle school is often synonymous with the awkwardness, uncertainty and sheer terror of early adolescence. But it can also be an amazing time of brain development, when children’s growing sense of self can blossom as they take more agency in their lives and learning. In this special report, Hechinger looks at what schools should do to help children at this critical inflection point in their personal development and academic careers.

Students Mia Ramsey, 11, left, Ella Reyl, 12, Thea Jones, 12, Seth Samuel, 12, and Etai Kurtzman, 12, fill out game analysis worksheets at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum.
Posted inElementary to High School, Future of Learning, Middle School, News

What does it mean to have your whole middle-school curriculum designed around games?

by Alexandria Neason August 13, 2015April 8, 2021
Dr. Donald Aguillard
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, New Orleans, Opinion, The South, Time to Learn

How longer days helped struggling middle schoolers, other lessons, from the turnaround in St. Mary Parish

by Donald Aguillard December 5, 2014October 26, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, Opinion, Time to Learn

How to keep kids with special needs out of prison and in middle school

by Cossondra George November 7, 2014October 26, 2020
Alex Magaña with a student at Grant Beacon Middle School (Photo: Denver Public Schools)
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, Opinion, Time to Learn

How an extended day, other innovations turned a Denver middle school around

by Alex Magaña October 9, 2014October 26, 2020
Devon Sanford dropped out of school the summer before ninth grade to take care of his sick mother, making him one of the thousands of California middle school dropouts who go largely unnoticed.
Posted inCalifornia, Elementary to High School, Middle School, News, The West

Thousands of California kids don’t get past middle school

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz August 20, 2014October 26, 2020
Christopher Caruso is Senior Vice President for ExpandED Schools at TASC (The After-School Corporation).
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, Opinion, Time to Learn

New York City’s chance to reinvent better middle schools

by Christopher Caruso April 28, 2014October 26, 2020
Posted inCalifornia, Elementary to High School, Middle School, The West, Time to Learn

Oakland middle school’s 9-hour school day is model program

by Susan Frey February 11, 2014October 26, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, News, Time to Learn

De Blasio’s challenge: Paying for middle schoolers to stay late … and getting them to show up

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz January 27, 2014October 26, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, News

Q&A with Leon Botstein: ‘Middle schools and high schools are an American catastrophe’

Avatar photo by Liz Willen October 25, 2011October 26, 2020

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