THE SIXTH-GRADE DILEMMA: Stuck in the middle; Some sixth-graders do well in grade 6-8 schools, while others flourish when they're in the last year of elementary. That's a problem for Minneapolis as it tries to find the best way to educate kids of that age

Allannah Little, 12, says it's pretty cool to move around Olson Middle School as a sixth-grader. 'I joke around with my mom if she calls me a kid,' Little says. [...]