What Can Be Done For Middle Schools?
Are middle schools being overlooked?
Public officials and educators have focused on the need for all high school students to graduate prepared for college or a career. Although the discussion has been intense over the past year about turning around the country's lowest-performing high schools, or dropout factories, no comparable buzz surrounds low-performing middle schools. With the president's budget proposal calling for college- and career-ready standards in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act, the importance of this conversation is heightened.
Public officials and educators have focused on the need for all high school students to graduate prepared for college or a career. Although the discussion has been intense over the past year about turning around the country's lowest-performing high schools, or dropout factories, no comparable buzz surrounds low-performing middle schools. With the president's budget proposal calling for college- and career-ready standards in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act, the importance of this conversation is heightened.
What reforms are needed at the middle-school level to ensure the success of college- and career-ready standards?
-- Eliza Krigman, NationalJournal.com
RESPONDED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2010 9:53 AM
One Solution: No Middle Schools
Partner, Revolution Learning
RESPONDED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2010 8:45 AM
Yes, Middle Schools Are Often Overlooked
NationalJournal.com
Gayle Andrews, president-elect, National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, submitted the following: