K-8 Settings or Separate Schools: Is There a Best Way to Educate Young Adolescents?

K-8 or Not? Reconfiguring the Middle Grades
Paul S. George

Grade Configurations for Educating Young Adolescents Are Still Crazy After All These Years
Hayes Mizell

How Effective Are K-8 Schools For Young Adolescents?
C. Kenneth McEwin, Thomas S. Dickinson, & Michael G. Jacobson

The Effects of Small K-8 Centers Compared to Large 6-8 Schools on Student Performance
Rodolfo Abella

Features

Middle School Students Are Co-Researchers of Their Media Environment: An Integrated Project 
Phyllis W. Bernt, Sandra V. Turner, & Joseph P. Bernt

Questioning Techniques of Fifth and Sixth Grade Reading Teachers
William P. Bintz & Lynne Williams

Departments

The Editor Reflects
Tom Erb
The Making of a New Urban Myth

What Research Says
Vincent A. Anfara, Jr., & Alison Buehler
Grade Configuration and the Education of Young Adolescents

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