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Making the Most of Middle School: A Field Guide for Parents and Othersreviewed by Barbara Blackburn - 2004 Title: Making the Most of Middle School: A Field Guide for Parents and Others Author(s): Anthony W. Jackson, P. Gayle Andrews, Holly Holland, and Priscilla Pardini Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 080774476X, Pages: 160, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In Making the Most of Middle School: A Field Guide for
Parents and Others,
Jackson
, Andrews,
Holland
, and Parini use a variety of sources (external research, their own
research, real-life examples) to describe the middle school
experience in an easily understandable manner. Working from their
background as parents, teachers, and researchers, the authors focus
on moving beyond the myths of middle schools to understanding and
being involved in the middle school years in a positive way. For
many parents, sending a child to middle school creates negative
images, in part, due to the horror stories they have heard from
others (i.e., normal kids turn into nightmares at this age; the
child you’ve raised disappears for about three years and
hopefully returns when they ‘grow out of it’). Instead
of simply explaining that the stereotypical ‘rollercoaster
years’ perception of middle schoolers is wrong, the authors
provide practical, pointed vignettes to portray the real
contradictions surrounding this age group:
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