FOUNDING AND MANAGING EDITOR’s ANNOUNCEMENT

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On behalf of the MGRJ Editorial Board and Information Age Publishing, I am pleased to announce appointment of the following members to the editorial staff:Dr. Frances Spielhagen, editor-in-chief; Dr. Robert Capraro, associate editor; Dr. Mary Margaret Capraro, associate editor; and Dr. Jerry Goldin, associate editorDr. Spielhagen is an associate professor, Division of Education, and director, Center for Adolescent Research and Development, at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. Drs. Robert and Mary Margaret Capraro are professors at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Jerry Goldin is a Regents Professor II at Rutgers University. This editorial team will assume their new roles beginning in March 2012.After serving as an associate editor from 2006 to 2009 and editor-in-chief since 2009, University of Alabama, Dr. Vicki L. Schmitt, assistant professor, will complete her 3-year appointment in the spring 2012. Dr. Fred Groves, a professor at Missouri State University has served as associate editor since 2006 and will complete his second 3-year term in spring 2012, as well. As founder and managing editor, I will serve in an advisory capacity to the new editorial team.MGRJ was founded in 2006 to provide a hard-copy professional journal wherein middle grades research could be published. Now beginning its seventh volume year, MGRJ remains the only hard-copy research quarterly focused on middle grades issues. Studies published in the journal are among the very best middle grades research produced internationally, and a number of university faculty rely on MGRJ as a priority outlet for their work.I am pleased to welcome our new editorial staff and look forward to a very prosperous 2012. Over the coming years, Dr. Spielhagen and her associate editors will no doubt lead MGRJ into a new era of productivity, recognition, and value to middle grades research, policy, and practice.