An effective — and cheaper — way to ease the middle-school transition

A new study from education researchers has come up with a deceptively simple yet surprisingly effective way of helping students cope with the infamously stressful transition from elementary to middle school: Let them hear from other kids that, sure, middle school is tough. But it gets better, help is out there, and they can do this.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 6, 2019
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