BOOKS by Linda Perlstein

Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers more books like this

by Linda Perlstein

In an effort to gain insight into the troubled terrain of middle schoolers, Pearlstein traces the experiences of five Maryland students. She follows them through a full year of school and comes out with valuable insights about them and their friends, and what really goes on in their heads--which is a lot.

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Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade more books like this

by Linda Perlstein

In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results. To see if this world is producing better students, Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland elementary school, and in this book she explores the rewards and costs of that transformation.

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