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Stuck in the Middle

How and why middle schools harm student achievement

Podcast: Jonah Rockoff talks with Education Next.

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Middle Schools Fail Kids, Study Says


09/01/10 | The Wall Street Journal

A new study by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood finds that students in New York City attending standalone middle schools score lower on standardized tests than students of the same age who attend K-8 schools. The study appears in the Fall 2010 issue of Ed Next.

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Advocating for Arts in the Classroom

Academic discipline or instrument of personal change?

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Teaching the Arts on the Cheap


08/17/10 | The New York Observer

The Center for Arts Education complains that, while the hiring of arts teachers in New York City has increased, spending on arts supplies has dramatically decreased. In an article that will appear in the Fall 2010 issue of Ed Next, Mark Bauerlein dissects the strategy used by arts education organizations to promote spending on the arts.

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