Turning Points 2000: Chapter 1

Chapter 1 of Turning Points 2000 primarily summarized the goals and objectives of Turning Points: Preparing American Youths for the 21st Century, a similar book which preceded 2000. In Preparing, the authors sought to educate teachers and school systems about ways to make a functional middle school based on the typical development of the young adolescent. The chapter also included data from schools that had implemented the suggested techniques and showed a significant improvement in standardized test scores across all content areas in comparison to the minimal improvement achieved by schools that did not use these methods.