She is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and several social and emotional learning curricula for preschool
through middle school grades.
In addition, the
early middle school grades typically provide less independence to students than do the upper levels of elementary schools.
Along with test results, they
weigh middle school grades, teacher recommendations, essays, even interviews, much like the admissions offices of selective colleges.
Indeed, our failure to find robust effects of the pilot schools (particularly
in middle school grades) should be a warning that additional flexibility for schools does not ensure results for kids.
According to WNYC, Icahn's attrition rate for the 2013 — 14 school year was 8 percent for elementary school grades and 5.4 percent
for middle school grades, compared to an overall rate of 13 percent in traditional public schools.
Schools with large populations, schools exclusively
serving middle school grades (e.g., grades six to eight), and schools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - Americans.
This suggests that it may be harder to create an effective middle school than an effective K — 8 school, and that part of the challenge is simply that
middle school grade configurations require an additional school transition.»
McIntosh said the performing arts school could lose a band room, dance studio and a multi-purpose drama room when the Eva Moskowitz - run Harlem Success Academy moves two
middle school grades into the building Wadleigh already shares with Frederick Douglass Academy II and an Alternative Learning Center.
At a recent meeting with Carranza, Mayor Bill de Blasio and elected officials, a solution was discussed to combine Wadleigh's
middle school grades with those of Frederick Douglass Academy II, which shares the same building.
A computer - based intelligent tutoring system that aims to improve science instruction in late elementary through
middle school grades focusing on the conceptual understanding and procedural skills of designing and interpreting scientific experiments; Carnegie Mellon University.
New Orleans school operators can select each school's grade span, and it is quite common for elementary schools to serve grades K — 8 and uncommon to have schools with
just middle school grades (5 — 8).
Interestingly, respondents assigned their
local middle schools grades that were, on average, one - quarter of a letter grade lower than the grades they assigned their local elementary schools (see Figure 1).
The school district says other options being considered include closing Ashfield Middle School and dispersing its students to the other middle schools, which would save $ 2.1 million annually; or
moving middle school grades from the Davis K - 8 School, to South Middle School, which would save $ 417,800 a year.
ABC School District * is looking for a way to help a large number of students in upper elementary and
middle school grades improve their English grammar and reading skills.
School:
Piedmont Middle School Grades Served: 6 - 8 Location: Piedmont, AL Operator: Piedmont City School District Operator Type: District Setting: Rural Students at Start: 275 Students at Capacity: 290
The success of the initiative led Ingenuity to design a math - related capstone challenge and professional development services for K - 5 elementary schools in the region to strengthen the pipeline
before middle school grades.
School Name: Whittemore
Park Middle School Grades Served: 6 - 8 Location: Conway, SC Operator: Horry County Schools Operator Type: School District Setting: Urban Students at Start: 200 Students at Capacity: 900
Students in CMI's upper elementary and
middle school grades make use of Google for Education's suite of authentic and relevant tools for writing, organizing data, designing, and presenting.
In Columbia, the SC Science Academy plans to
offer middle school grades and plans to add additional higher grade levels each year until offering grades 6 - 12.
Public charter participation rates, by comparison, show the share of students living within a public school boundary who attend a public charter school anywhere in the city, and are highest
in middle school grades.
This lack of transparency and clarity makes the PARCC Math achievement data
for middle school grade - level Math tests a potentially misleading statistic to share.
Typically,
the middle school grades are 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, although some school districts include 9th grade in their middle school programs.
We have ample gardens which the children tend to, spacious playing fields, an outdoor amphitheater, designated science space for
the middle school grades and much more.
The city has pulled its proposal to cut
the middle school grades of Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Harlem.
Carranza said the DOE would explore that option and assign a new administrator to the campus to focus solely on
the middle school grades and work closely with the community through the process.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said combining
the middle school grades from Wadleigh and FDA II was «a brilliant solution,» and praised the efforts of community members and students to defend Wadleigh.
«We are in agreement that the current academic performance in
the middle school grades at Wadleigh is not acceptable,» he wrote.
The Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the phaseout of Wadleigh's
middle school grades, along with the partial closing of Washington Irving High School, on Feb. 9 at Brooklyn Technical High School.
Fred Baptiste, the parent of a child at PS 161 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which is having
its middle school grades truncated despite strong community opposition, said the change on co-locations would be an important first step.
The city has pulled its proposal to cut
the middle school grades of Wadleigh Secondary School for the...
The panel's agenda also included the truncation of Bedford - Stuyvesant's P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz School, which will lose
its middle school grades in the upcoming academic year.
At Success Academy Harlem 4, which was denied space to expand
its middle school grades, 55 percent of students passed English exams last year, according to city data, and 83 percent of students passed math exams, far above city averages.
1) Entry Grade Level: Charters that enroll at the K - 1 level did dramatically better than those (like Democracy Prep) who enroll in
the middle school grades.
What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that New York City was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that
a middle school grade configuration (generally, 6 — 8) is probably not the way to go was done in his city.
To compare attrition rates at KIPP middle schools with rates at other public middle schools, we identified students who left their original schools either during or immediately after
each middle school grade.