Abstract
We believe that the success of contemporary middle school education in America is based primarily on middle level educators' comprehensive understanding of and dedication to the characteristics and needs of young adolescents. More than any other major educational innovation, the middle school movement rests on a tenacious commitment to meeting the needs of all young adolescents. The survival of the concept through several decades of educational adversity has often been credited to the veritable ferocity with which this commitment has been held. Many groups of students with special needs have been effectively identified. We readily recognize and attempt to affirm the special needs of minority students. Educators at the middle level have acknowledged the need to take the special circumstance of poverty into account when organizing learning experiences for young adolescents. We have attempted to rearrange the so called star system so that not only the most sophisticated, successful, and early maturing students are able to take center stage in our schools. But one other group, at least, has apparently escaped our attention. The shy.
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