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Middle and High School Forum
The Middle
Grades to High School Transition: Research to Practice Forum will
be held at the Omni Hotel in Richmond, Virginia on April 19-21,
2006.
The forum will address one of the factors
affecting student achievement in low-performing schools-the transition
from middle grades to high school. Participants, who will be drawn
from state departments of education, will have the opportunity to
consider critical issues in the middle to high school transition
that affect student achievement.
The event is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic
Comprehensive Center, the Southern Regional Education Board, and
the Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center.
The objectives of the forum are:
- To examine research on policies and programs designed to raise
student achievement and reduce the failure rate in the ninth grade;
- To share and discuss new technical assistance initiatives under
consideration or in a pilot phase that are aimed at improving
readiness for high school and the middle grades to ninth grade
transition; and
- To consider how the sponsoring organizations can assist states
in developing their capacity to provide technical assistance designed
to improve achievement in the middle grades and high school and
to increase high school completion rates.
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