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Article: Teaching kids how to adapt to middle school challenge
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- May 2, 2009
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in an occasional series following
Franklin Middle School and other Long Beach schools as students and
teachers try to meet standards of the federal No Child Left Behind
Act.
LONG BEACH - High school dropout. Although the term often
dominates the discussion of that national problem, researchers say
that the seeds of dropping out begin well before ninth grade: in
middle school.
Students are significantly more likely to drop out if they do
poorly in middle school, studies have shown.
The grades six through eight are vital to a student's academic
future, representing an important transition point both academically
and socially, said DeMille Middle School ...