Showing Middle Level Students the Path to College Pat Schmidt, principal of Hopkins North Junior High School in Minnetonka, MN, and finalist for the 2009 MetLife / NASSP National Principal of the Year award, discusses how her school has helped students to see the path to college.
Not exact matches
Results for pilot schools were less clear; some analyses
showed positive results at the elementary and high school
level, while results for
middle school
students were less encouraging.
Broad analyses of charter performance have tended to
show that they slightly outperform traditional public schools, especially at the
middle and high school
level, although critics say that could be because their
students tend to come from more academically motivated families.
They also
show that American
student test scores are generally in the
middle or in the top third but not at the very highest
levels among the world's nations.
Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) has
shown positive effects on
student achievement at the
middle school
level.
Screening data
show that only 39 percent of ninth - graders read at or on grade
level, «very much mirroring what we knew about our
middle school
students, says Annie Wolfe, secondary curriculum and development officer.
In North Carolina, to take but one example, the data on
middle school math achievement
show that 84 percent of
students were considered «proficient» on the state exam in 2005, whereas only 32 percent reached this
level on the NAEP exam.
Research
shows, however, that even at
middle school and high school grade
levels, keeping parents in the loop is critical to each
student's academic success.
A study on the effects of the Education Voucher Scheme in Pakistan found that the voucher
students, all of whom came from disadvantaged backgrounds, generally
showed equal
levels of academic success as the
students who came from
middle - income groups.