Interventions to prepare students for the transition to high school
Continuous progress monitoring (refer to the section in Recommendation 2 — Instruction, Assessment, and Instruction, called Assessment for continual progress monitoring) helps middle grades teachers see when students are not on track to meet high school standards. Early, accelerated interventions (refer to section in Recommendation 2 — Instruction, Assessment, and Intervention, called Benchmark interventions - reinforcement) help ensure that struggling students have a chance to catch up, increasing their chances of staying in school through ninth grade and beyond. Currently, a large and disproportionately poor and minority group of students tend to drop out in ninth grade. Early, intensive preparation of those students may help to close the achievement gap.
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