Today, Mrs. Bush attended a roundtable discussion at Benjamin Franklin Intermediate School in Colma, CA, on the importance of middle school as a...
Today, Mrs. Bush attended a roundtable discussion at Benjamin Franklin Intermediate School in Colma, CA, on the importance of middle school as a foundation for academic success. In February of 2011, the George W. Bush Institute launched Middle School Matters, a landmark education initiative to increase the number of children who complete middle school at grade level and go on to graduate from high school ready for college or a good job. Middle School Matters (led by Bush Institute Director Anne McClellan, and Education Reform Fellow Sandy Kress) is a comprehensive research-based program to be applied to middle schools across the country.
“Middle School is the last and best chance to prepare students for a successful high school career,” Mrs. Bush said to a crowd of 400 students, teachers, parents, education policy experts and city and school leaders at the launch of Middle School Matters. “Research shows with systematic, intensive interventions that students who started middle school behind can catch up.” Watch the 2011 Middle School Matters announcement at Thomas J. Stovall Middle School in Houston, TX here:
