Social Equity 50 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education

Creating High-Performing Middle Schools in Segregated Settings: 50 Years After Brown
Donna M. Davis & Sue C. Thompson

Reading and Writing

A Framework for Scaffolding Content Area Reading Strategies
Dorie Combs

Increasing Writing Achievement in an Urban Middle School
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Leif Fearn, Nancy Farnan, & Frank Petersen

And Poetry, Too

Poetry Lives
Joanne S. Gillespie

Using Poems for Multiple Voices to Integrate Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum
William P. Bintz

A Poet in Your Pocket: Contemporary Poetry for Middle School Students
Maria A. Perez-Stable & Mary Hurlbut Cordier

Departments

The Editor Reflects
Tom Erb
Challenging Some Orthodoxies Past and Present

Middle School Leadership
Sally N. Clark & Donald C. Clark
Principal Leadership for Developing and Sustaining Highly Successful Middle Level Schools

Research On Renewal
Peter F. Mulhall, Nancy Flowers, & Steven B. Mertens
Are Middle Level Principals an Endangered Species?

News

NMSA in Action