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Fighting Middle-Grade Blues
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 4.25.2006
While Rob Reiner is running around California telling voters that preschool is the magic bullet for the state’s education woes, testing data shows that children are having learning problems not at the beginning of their school careers, but in the middle. Too many public middle schools have become barriers to student achievement. In contrast, the KIPP charter schools, relatively new to California, offer a promising model for raising the achievement levels of middle-school students, especially those from low-income backgrounds.
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