Middle Grades Review

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).


If interested in publishing with MGR, please contact managing editor - Aimee Diehl (aimee.diehl@uvm.edu), or co-editors - James Nagle (jnagle2@smcvt.edu) or Kathleen Brinegar (Kathleen.Brinegar@uvm.edu)