Research+Links

**Links for Researching Grade Configuration**
NOTE: Links to general information are on this page. For articles and/or research specific to a particular grade configuration, please select the grade configuration on the navigation menu to the left.


 * [|Age Appropriate Schools: How Should Schools be Organized?] (PDF) by William S. DeJong, Ph.D., REFP and Joyce Craig, REFP
 * Northwest Regional Educational Library's (NWREL) report, [|Grade Configuration: Who Goes Where?] (PDF) July 1997
 * [|CEEP Grade Configuration Research Links]-Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has a broad selection of discussion and links about grade configuration.
 * [|NMSA On-Target]-National Middle School Association's publication. NMSA's site description: //**On Target** is a free, user-friendly, Web-based resource that provides collections of the most current information in middle level education by topic.//
 * [|Grade-Span Configurations] by Craig B. Howley. //The School Administrator// (March 2002).
 * [|Elementary Grade Configuration Report, Frost and McCoy Elementary Schools] (December 9, 2003)-includes research-based recommendations of committee.
 * [|Elementary School Grade Span Configuration: New Evidence on Student Achievement, Achievement Equity, and Cost Efficiency] by: Kathy Gregg
 * [|The (Limited) Evidence Regarding Effects of Grade-Span Configurations on Academic Achievement: What Rural Educators Should Know]. ERIC Digest. by Coladarci, Theodore - Hancock, Julie
 * [|Hopkinton Public Schools, Massachusetts Grade Configuration Study Committee Final Report] (PDF) November 1, 2001
 * [|Grade Span Research Roundup] by Ron Renchler. Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management, College of Education · University of Oregon
 * [|The Education Wonks: The Disapperaring Middle School]. This is a blog that discusses K-8 grade configuration.
 * [|The Sixth Grade Conundrum: a Parent's Guide]. In depth article about 6th graders and the challenges for children during that year.
 * [|Pieces of the Puzzle: Answering Middle School Critics]//.// A listserv discussion around middle schools.