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Presentation - Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better
February 2010 19 slides, plus slide notes.
Offered for download as a PDF. PowerPoint file available upon request.
This presentation helps explain the Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better study and may be used freely.
If you would like the PowerPoint file of this presentation, including notes to help you explain the slides, please contact our office (edsource@edsource.org or 650/917-9481) to request it. The powerpoint version is also free.
This study contributes to the field by identifying a broad range of traditional and newer middle grades polices and practices, and determining in California which of these differentiate higher- from lower-performing schools serving similar student populations, with performance measured by the state's standards-based tests.
For the complete materials pertaining to this study, please see our Middle Grades Study page.
EdSource thanks Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, for his generous support of this study.