Pre-teen Development 
What to Expect From Your Sixth Grader(Comments Off)
February 1, 2012
Great article with straight forward advice! http://www.schoolfamily.com/school-family-articles/article/10625-sixth-grade-social-changes-what-to-expect
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“Our findings were surprising in their consistency,” the report concludes. The 44 higher-performing schools (those with average school-wide math and English test scores a full standard deviation above the mean) “create a shared, school-wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,” it says. Those high-performing schools did things like “set measurable goals on standards [...]
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