This volume provides recent research findings on important topics related to the still-expanding middle school movement. They are divided into seven parts, addr

Having the ability to manage the learning environment, motivate students in the environment, and offer instruction that itself is motivating and which contribut

Brown (educational leadership, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Anfara (educational leadership, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) examine education at the middl

Much has been written of late about the need to reform school systems across the world. In like manner there have been many attempts to change school systems fo

Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG of AERA, this inaugural volume in the new IAP book series, The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Educat