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Welcome to Middle Grades Review.

Middle Grades Review (MGR) provides a provocative forum for debate within the field of middle grades education. Inviting a critical perspective, MGR is a peer-reviewed, diamond open access venue for scholars and practitioners who wish to broaden the discourse of middle grades education by challenging conventional wisdom. MGR seeks pieces that explore three themes: Democratic Education, Innovation, and Social Justice in relation to middle grades education and young adolescents.

MGR is a diamond open access journal published by the Middle Grades Collaborative in partnership with the University of Vermont Press. It is entirely free for readers and authors.

This journal is abstracted/indexed in Cabell’s, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025

Practitioner Perspective


Above the Influence: Youth Activism in a School Makerspace

Lou I Lahana Ed.D.

Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025

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Accepted for Publication | Expanding the Cultural Lens: Implementing an Ongoing Online Professional Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Posted by Aimee Diehl on 2025-08-29

Forthcoming Research & Inquiry Expanding the Cultural Lens: Implementing an Ongoing Online Professional Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Cory Brown, Pamela Correll, Ximena Uribe-Zarain, Kimberly J. Stormer PhD Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic provided one of the more significant changes to education. Schooling at all levels (preschool to higher education) were required to pivot their [...]

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