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"At a time when the public, researchers, and policymakers are losing confidence in public schooling, this presentation of case studies of four schools offers solutions and concrete models of diverse ways in which excellence can be attained in middle-grade schools. Asking what ""effectiveness"" means for the young adolescent age group (a hitherto unexplored area in research literature), how effective schools come about, and how they achieve acceptance in their communities, Lipsitz identifies and examines successful middle-grade schools, noting that the major problem in schooling is meeting the massive individual differences in the development of early adolescents."

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This work is particularly outstanding. It is the most meaningful description of school effectiveness I've seen--a credit to quality research, qualitative research and a remarkably insightful writing style. --Thomas J. Sergiovanni, chair, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

This work is particularly outstanding. It is the most meaningful description of school effectiveness I've seen--a credit to quality research, qualitative research and a remarkably insightful writing style. --Thomas J. Sergiovanni, chair, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</p>

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Joan Lipsitz is senior fellow at MDC, Inc., a nonprofit research organization that provides communities and their leaders with the research, strategies, and assistance they need to advance equity and opportunity. She was the director of the Center for Early Adolescence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has also been a consultant to the Ford Foundation.

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