Not Content with Content: Preparing Teachers of Young Adolescents

Essential Elements of Specialized Middle Level Teacher Preparation Programs
Ruth Ference & Jacqueline McDowell

Developing Middle Level Teaching Skills Online
Calvin F. Meyer & Elizabeth Kelley Boyles

Supporting Students and Parents Through a School-University Partnership
Laura Van Zandt Allen & Eleanor T. Migliore

Dramatic Experiences for Future Middle Level Teachers
Gary Weilbacher, Julie LeMasters, Lana Gill, Jessica Wisniewski, & Christine Arnold

Protecting and Supporting Young Adolescents

Teachers' Responsibilities When Adolescent Abuse and Neglect Are Suspected
Tracy W. Smith & Glenn W. Lambie

Dealing with Rumors, Secrets, and Lies: Tools of Aggression for Middle School Girls
Betsy Lane

Departments

The Editor Reflects
Tom Erb
From Controversy Grows Commitment

What Research Says...
Claudia Khourey-Bowers
Cultivating Positive Attitudes and Higher Achievement in Middle Level Mathematics and Science

Research Into Action
Janis M. Harmon, Susan Keehn, Michelle S. Kenney, & Karen D. Wood
A Tutoring Program for Struggling Adolescent Readers

News

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