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Download full textWells, Amy Stuart – 1989
Even though middle schools are important in retaining at-risk students, the organization and curriculum of most of them do not meet the developmental needs of young adolescents. Improvements should focus on making middle and junior high schools function less like large, impersonal high schools and more like caring, nurturing elementary schools,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Problems, Dropout Prevention, Educational Change
