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A Comparison Of Junior High Schools To Middle Schools With Respect To Achievement And Attendance, Darrell Clay
A Comparison Of Junior High Schools To Middle Schools With Respect To Achievement And Attendance, Darrell Clay
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During the past 30 years, the middle school movement has been a comprehensive effort to restructure middle level education. Literally thousands of school districts have chosen to change from junior high schools to middle schools for a variety of reasons. Research to support this massive reorganization of American schools has not been evident. The early research did not provide consistent evidence of improvement for middle school students. Most of this early research was based solely on the grade configuration of the schools being compared rather than the conceptual framework of the school.
The purpose of this study was to compare …