Renewing an effort to strengthen middle level education as a way to increase high school graduation rates, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) have reintroduced the Success in the Middle Act. NASSP worked with the National Middle School Association, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, and a number of other education groups to draft the Success in the Middle Act that was first introduced in 2007. Included in the current bill would be $1 billion annually for grants to local school districts to improve low-performing schools that contain middle grades, as well as an additional $100 million to facilitate the generation, dissemination, and application of research to identify promising practices in middle grades education.
Source: NASSP Principal's Policy Blog, 6/25/09
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A company out of Ohio called turning point technologies touts they are "proven to raise student achievement". I saw them at NECC this week. Bears looking into.
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