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Download full textCooney, Sondra; Moore, Barbara – 2002
The goal of the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Making Middle Grades Work initiative is to increase the percentage of eighth-graders who perform at the proficient level in core academic subjects and who leave eighth grade ready for college-prep work in high school. This document contains a comprehensive improvement framework to aid in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Agents, Coordinators, Core Curriculum
Cooney, Sondra – 2001
In spring 2000, the Southern Regional Education Board, through its Middle Grades Assessment, gathered information from 5,000 eighth-graders and 1,800 middle-grades teachers in 60 schools in 14 states. This brief report describes what that information revealed: a significant difference between the achievement scores of the highest performing 25…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Educational Practices, Equal Education
