Research & Reports
Research & Reports
- Middle Start: Implementation, Impact, and Lessons Learned, 2003-2006
This report evaluates the Middle Start program implemented in Michigan middle schools during 2003-2006. The report was written by Dr. H. Dickson Corbett and Dr. Bruce Wilson who served as independent third-party evaluators for the Middle Start Comprehensive School Reform (CSI) program.
- Evidence of Effectiveness
The true measure of any school reform effort is whether it made a difference in teacher practice and student achievement. In the case of Middle Start, research indicates that it has. Over a history spanning more than a decade, Middle Start has steadily improved teacher and student performance, as indicated by better test scores in the gatekeeper subjects of reading and math and increased school capacity to support and sustain innovative reform. Read this report to learn more.
- Bush Education Funding Fails the Test
This report outlines how the President’s budget fails to support students in elementary and secondary education, special education, and higher education.
- Recent Research on Comprehensive School Reform: What’s Working, What’s Needed
This report offers a powerful reminder that evidence on the efficacy of a number of comprehensive school reform and improvement programs continues to mount – out of the political spotlight, perhaps, but important, nonetheless. Certainly, this research needs to be center stage in the effort to create better schools for the nation’s children.
- Middle Start Snapshots
- Strategic Alliances in Mid South Middle Start: Building Capacity, Creating a Movement
- Middle South Middle Start: Studies of Three Middle Start Schools in the Mid South Delta
A full report funded by the Foundation for the Mid South highlights the challenges of implementing a comprehensive reform effort, given existing educational improvement initiative, external pressures and circumstances.
- Portrait of Lake Middle School, an Urban Middle Start CSRD School
- Voices from Middle Start: Developing Learning Communities
- Middle Start Schools Striving for Excellence
A full report funded by the Foundation for the Mid South concentrates on the essential elements for schoolwide improvement. The report features schools’ successes and challenges in implementing Middle Start.
- Integrating Districts in Comprehensive School Reform
