Career exploration in middle school isn’t about locking students into a track; it’s about unlocking possibilities during a pivotal stage in their development and academic journeys. Too often, our ...

The critical middle school years can be a tough time for kids—and the pandemic magnified some of those challenges. A new research brief aims to give districts strategies for helping students through.

At the start of a new school year, educators often marvel at the transformations that students made over the summer. At no other developmental phase is this more evident than early adolescence—the ...

Students generally don't start applying to colleges until their senior year of high school, but the preparation for that process starts well before. As early as middle school, there's quite a bit ...