- Alexander, W.M., and George, P.S., The Exemplary Middle School, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
- Gordon, Jeffrey, Johnston, J. Howard, Markle, Glenn, and Strahan, David, “Priorities for Research in Middle School Education,” Middle School Journal, (May, 1980, 11, 15–17).
- Kindred, Leslie W., The Middle School Curriculum, Boston; Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1981. Citing Kenneth Brooks and Francine Edwards, “The Middle Schools in Transition: A Research Report on the Status of the Middle School Movement,” Center for Professional Development, College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1978; Bernard M. Gross, “An Analysis of the Present and Perceived Purposes, Functions, and Characteristics of the Middle School,” doctoral dissertation, Temple University, 1972; and William M. Alexander, A Survey of Organizational Patterns of Reorganized Middle Schools (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept, of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1968)
- Sylwester, Robert, “Education Implications of Recent Brain Research,” Educational Leadership, (October, 1981, 39, 6-10) citing Herman Epstein, “Growth Spurts During Brain Development: Implications for Educational Policy,” in Education and the Brain, ed. J. Chall (Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, 1978).
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