Call for Manuscripts
The editors of Middle Grades Review (MGR) are pleased to announce the calls for 2025.
Issue 11(1): Open Call
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
Anticipated Publication Date: Rolling publication beginning June 2025
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, multi-media venue for scholars and practitioners who wish to broaden the discourse of middle grades education by challenging conventional wisdom. In this general issue, MGR seeks pieces that explore the three key themes of democratic education, innovation, and social justice in relation to middle grades education and young adolescents.
Issue 11(2): Theme Issue
Reigniting the Middle Grades Movement: The Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group Research Agenda
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
Anticipated Publication Date: Rolling publication beginning September 2025
The Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group (MLER SIG) recently published its 2024 research agenda and a series of accompanying literature reviews (https://tinyurl.com/mpfarh9z). In response to this agenda, Middle Grades Review (MGR) welcomes empirical research reports, practitioner perspectives, and essays focused on ways in which middle grades educators, teacher educators, and policymakers can advocate for and reignite the middle grades movement to reimagine it for the future.
- What policies and practices are needed to address waning support for middle grades education as a distinct schooling experience for young adolescents?
- How are schools responding to the changing demographics and needs of young adolescents?
- How are teacher educators preparing middle level educators and administrators to advocate for schooling that is developmentally and culturally responsive for young adolescents?
Authors should state in their cover letter that their manuscript is for this special theme issue.
Issue 11(3): Open Call
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
Anticipated Publication Date: Rolling publication beginning December 2025
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, multi-media venue for scholars and practitioners who wish to broaden the discourse of middle grades education by challenging conventional wisdom. In this general issue, MGR seeks pieces that explore the three key themes of democratic education, innovation, and social justice in relation to middle grades education and young adolescents.