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Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: 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.

Posted inFrom The Editors Desk

COLUMN: The high school-college hybrid that jumpstarts careers

by Liz Willen June 16, 2021June 30, 2021
Learning Undefeated's mobile hands-on learning lab sits in a school parking lot.
Posted inFuture of Learning

A ‘magic’ school bus brings science class to schools in need

by Javeria Salman June 7, 2021February 9, 2022
Posted inMiddle School

Nation’s skeletal school mental health network will be severely tested

by Kate Rix May 30, 2021February 9, 2022
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Posted inJill Barshay

PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

by Jill Barshay May 24, 2021May 24, 2021
Posted inMiddle School

As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home

by Sarah Carr May 18, 2021May 18, 2021
Posted inJill Barshay

PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

by Jill Barshay May 17, 2021May 17, 2021
school start times
Posted inJill Barshay

PROOF POINTS: Later school start time gave small boost to grades but big boost to sleep, new study finds

by Jill Barshay April 26, 2021April 26, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Ninth graders do better with fewer classes, new research shows

by Kaaren Andrews and Habib Bangura April 13, 2021April 13, 2021
Posted inMiddle School

When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

by Levi Pulkkinen April 8, 2021February 10, 2022
summer school studies
Posted inJill Barshay

PROOF POINTS: Slim research evidence for summer school

by Jill Barshay March 29, 2021June 8, 2022

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