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In 1989, The Carnegie Corporation of New York
issued "Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st
Century," a landmark report which recognized the need to strengthen
the academic core of middle schools and establish caring, supportive
environments which value adolescents. The findings of the Turning
Points report, along with ten years of research and practice data
from middle schools around the country, led to the creation of the
National Turning Points Network.
In 1998, Carnegie turned to the Center
for Collaborative Education in Boston (CCE) to develop a new
whole school reform design that would be based on the research and
work of the preceding nine years. CCE launched the National Turning
Points Network in August of 1999, and in January 2000, Turning Points
became a member of New
American Schools and their portfolio of comprehensive school
reform design teams. Also in 2000, Carnegie Corporation issued an
in-depth update of the 1989 report - Turning Points 2000: Educating
Adolescents in the 21st Century, by Anthony Jackson and Gayle
Davis.
Since 1988, Turning Points has grown into a thriving national network
of regional centers serving more than 80 schools in Arizona, Colorado,
Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont,
and Wisconsin.
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