Changing bodies, more rigorous academics and new social challenges can make middle school tough for students. For children entering this environment, it's normal to be uneasy about entering a new ...

Middle school — it’s more than just lockers and lunch lines. It can be a whirlwind of emotions, shifting friendships, and identity exploration. For parents, it can feel like navigating a maze ...

Middle school is a time of intense change, not only academically but socially and emotionally. While parents and teachers often focus on logistics such as school supplies and class schedules, students ...

It's one of the worst nights of the year if your child is in middle or high school: Parent-teacher night, when you scramble to spend two minutes each with a half-dozen teachers who may not even know ...

At first, the idea of a separate open house for sixth-graders may have sounded like the kind of prank middle schoolers are always trying pull on each other, like offering new students directions to an ...

Decluttering and organizing can help the whole family get in the proper headspace before returning back to the classroom. Experts say clearing your space opens you up to being more creative, more ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town ...

"GMA" explores a new nonprofit financial-literacy curriculum for schools. In a classroom that features larger-than-life murals of a bull and a bear -- traditional symbols of the stock market-- a group ...

MUNCIE, IN — The first day of middle school changed the life of Fabian Ramirez. On that day more than three decades ago, a ...

Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word ...

Beginning in February, 64 middle school students at Santiago Charter Middle School will take a class where they’ll learn about the college experience and explore possibilities for their own college ...