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Sentinel & Enterprise - The money was intended for roofs at South Street Elementary School, Academy Middle School and Memorial Middle School, but wasn’t specifically designated for roofs, the superintendent said. Only the South Street roof needed immediate attention, he

Carnage should make you scream
Detroit Free Press - In just the past month in Detroit, we’ve had boys do drive-by robberies of Webber Middle School children and an Iraq war vet shot while trying to cash an income tax refund check. “If we continue to be silent about what we see and hear and know of, we

Tailoring learning to tough middle years
Baltimore Sun - Isreal might not be aware of a myriad of other changes at Brooklyn Park Middle School: the collaboration among teachers, the new discipline or the focus on making students take more responsibility. But these changes are at the heart of a middle school

Preventive measures
SignOn San Diego - Program coordinator Lauryn Seematter watched the playground last month while being greeted by Maricela Antonio, 11. The Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside runs the gang intervention/prevention program at Jefferson Middle School. The program is open to

What it takes to reach, teach middle schoolers
Boston Globe - RE MICHAEL JONAS’S “Junior high” (Ideas, Jan. 29): Students between ages 10 and 14 experience developmental growth comparable to that occurring from birth to age 3. Forcing a middle school student into a high school environment won’t eliminate normal

Middle school social scene can be a jungle
NorthJersey.com - As a sixth-grade teacher and a mother of two, Dale Baumwoll knows all about the cutthroat middle school social scene: Where do I sit during lunch? How do I fit in with the cool kids? Who are my friends? Baumwoll, who lives and teaches in Randolph

Fixing Naylor: It’s the entire community’s job
Arizona Daily Star - An Arizona Department of Education report about Naylor Middle School reveals a divided teaching staff unclear about its unified purpose, uncertain how best to improve its school and feeling ignored by school and district administrations. The report