Over the last decade," youth" has become increasingly central to policy, development, media
and public debates and conflicts across the world–whether as an ideological symbol, social …

Over 50 years of articles related to the middle school movement in the United States were
examined and analyzed in order to uncover the movement's primary themes associated with …

Middle level education as a field of study has expanded during the last 30 years to include a
growing, international knowledge base. The primary purpose of this review essay is to …

The Ministry of Education (MoE) of the Kurdistan Region—Iraq (KRI) has been investing in
improving the quality of K–12 education. In support of its many initiatives to develop its …

The United States invented a matrix sampling technique to impute five plausible scores of
student performance in its National Assessment of Educational Progress. That approach …

As I reflected upon the theme for this issue,“Middle Level Education in Changing Times,” I
reviewed many of the topics that have been covered in the “What Research Says” column …

For over a century the New Zealand education system has been defined by a bipartite
organisation of schooling that is divided philosophically, pedagogically and structurally …

This article addresses the question how to distinguish symbolic policies from evidence-
based policies, using the efforts of the Brazilian government to improve the achievements of …

Through participation and engagement at early ages in issues that concern them… we see a
generation of young people who are more respectful and concerned about their rights and …

The purpose of this study was to analyze through a set of interpretive and pragmatic
theoretical lenses the perceptions of the middle school teachers, principals, and …