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From 1983 to 1990 the discussions crystallized into a five-year curriculum for students aged 11–16, rather than a purely pre-IB course. At the 1987 ISA annual conference in Svendborg, it was decided to pilot the newly designed curriculum. Three schools took part in the initial pilot: the [[Macdonald Cartier High School|MacDonald Cartier High School]] in Quebec, Canada (in Belle-Isle's former school district of Chambly); [[Het Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest|Het Rijnlands Lyceum]] in the Netherlands; and St Catherine's School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The [[Vienna International School]] joined soon after, and other school boards in Quebec became interested in the program at MacDonald Cartier, and around 20 schools soon began implementing the experimental program.

The ISAC programme was taken over by the International Baccalaureate Organization in the early 1990s, officially becoming the IB Middle Years Programme in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 2010|title=A History of the Middle Years Programme|url=https://balimyp.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/history-of-the-myp.pdf|website=International Baccalaureate Organization |pageurl-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230312034905/https://balimyp.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/history-of-the-myp.pdf |archive-date= Mar 12, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Peterson|first=A. D. C.|url=https://www.worldcatgoogle.orgcom/oclcbooks/48837050edition/Schools_Across_Frontiers/nTUjMNjNo3EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA241&printsec=frontcover|title=Schools Across Frontiers|date=2003|publisher=Open Court|isbn=0-8126-9505-4|edition=2|___location=Chicago, Ill.|pages=241–244|oclc=48837050}}</ref>

==Discussion==

===Evidence of benefit===

The ''Chicago Tribune'' reported that in 1998 in that city's [[Beverly, Chicago|Beverly]] area, only 67 students in the 8th grade chose to attend a local public high school offering an IB curriculum. When a cluster of Beverly schools introduced the IB Middle Years Programme in the 1999–2000 school year, the number of 8th graders who chose to attend the local high school then increased to about 150. One student was quoted, "I had really good teachers in the IB."<ref>{{cite web | last = Olszewski | first = Lori | title = World Class Education in Middle Schools Too | publisher = Chicago Tribune | date = June 25, 2002 | url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-25/news/0206250296_1_middle-schools-middle-years-program-ib |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302220856/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-25/news/0206250296_1_middle-schools-middle-years-program-ib |archive-date= Mar 2, 2017 }}</ref>

==References==

{{Reflist|30em}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.prepscholar.com/international-baccalaureate-schools-in-us-complete-list|title=Complete List of IB Schools in the USA, by State|last=Seigel|first=Dora|website=blog.prepscholar.comOnline SAT / ACT Prep Blog by PrepScholar |language=en-us|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref>

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