Ninth Graders: Where Do You Put Them?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesWilliam T. Gruhn and Harl R. Douglass, The Modern Junior High School (2nd ed.; New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1956), p. 340.James Monroe Hyles, Education in America (3rd ed.; New York: Harper Row, 1970), p. 430.Grambs, The junior High School We Need, p. 23.Alvin W. Howard, “Which Years in Junior High?” The Clearing House, XXXIII (March, 1956), p. 406.I. I. Nelson, “The Junior High School—An Important Unit in a School System,” Research Study No. 31, The Texas Study of Secondary Education (Austin, Texas: University of Texas, I960), p. 10.James W. Jordan, “Critical Issues Facing the Junior High School,” The Clearing House, XXXIV (December, 1959), pp. 234–39.Ellsworth Tompkins and Walter Graumnitz, “The Carnegie Unit: Its Origin, Status and Trends,” NASSP Bulletin, XLVIII (January, 1964), p. 19.Mary F. Compton, “The Middle School: Alternative to the Status Quo,” Theory Into Practice, VII (June, 1968), p. 109.George E. Mills, “The How and Why of the Middle Schools,” Nations’ Schools, LXVIII (December, 1961), p. 45.Robert J. McCarthy, “A Nongraded Middle School,” National Elementary Principal, XLVII (January, 1968), p. 15.Neal C. Nickerson, Jr., Junior High Schools Are on the Way Out (Danville, Illinois: The Interstate Printers, Inc., 1966), p. 13.Donald A. Eicnhorn, The Middle School (New York: The Center for Applied Research in Education, Inc., 1966), p. 3.William M. Alexander and Emmett L. Williams, “Schools for the Middle School Years,” Educational Leadership, XXIII (December, 1965), p. 218.James S. Coleman, “Social Change, Impact on the Adolescent,” NASSP Bulletin, XLIX (April, 1965), p. 12.Leslie W. Kindred, The Intermediate School (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1968), p. 31.Thomas E. Curtis, “Administrators View the Middle School,” High Points, XLVIII (March, 1966), p. 34.C. A. Madon, “Middle School: Its Philosophy and Purpose,” The Clearing House, XL (February, 1966), p. 329.Nickerson, Junior High Schools Are on the Way Out, p. 14.Report of the Committee on Junior High School Education, “Recommended Grades or Years in the Junior High or Middle School,” NASSP Bulletin, LI (February, 1967), p. 69.Mauritz Johnson, Jr., A Pilot Study of Teachers’ Judgements of Pupils Maturity in Grades 6 Through 9 (Ithaca, New York: Junior High School Project, Cornell University, 1963). (Mimeographed.)Virgil E. Strickland, “Where Does the Ninth Grade Belong?” NASSP Bulletin, LI (February, 1967), pp. 54–57.Madon, “Middle School: Its Philosophy and Purpose,” p. 330.Curtis, “Administrators View the Middle School,” High Points, XLIII (March, 1966), p. 35.William M. Alexander, “From Junior High School to Middle School,” High School Journal, LIII (December, 1969), pp. 151–63.W. W. Wattenberg, “Middle School as One Psychologist Sees It,” High School Journal, LIII (December, 1969), pp. 164–71.Harold B. Gores, “Schoolhouse in Transition,” The Changing American School, The Sixty-Fifth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II, ed. by John I. Goodlad (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), p. 135.William Eckstein, “An Investigation of Selected Correlates of Academic Achievement Among Ninth Grade Students,” (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Laurence University, Sarasota, Florida, 1972).