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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Matt and the school’s 21 other students — many of whom, like Matt, abused drugs for years — face a daily struggle to stay clean. Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

One of New Milford High Schools crowning achievements is our Holocaust Study Tour. Her high school principal contacted me recently and we are arranging to meet with Sarah, her classmates, and the principal in Berlin. Authentic Learning h New Milford High School'

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

BOSTON — The Margarita Muñiz Academy, a public high school in Boston, is best known for its dual language immersion program. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. Music saved my life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Digital books have become extremely popular among students in some regions of Asia, but students who read books on paper still outperformed even in cultures where digital reading is commonplace. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as Tulsa schools desegregated during the 1950s. But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of total enrollment. But the district remains committed to its changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. The vast majority of school districts used seniority as the sole criteria for determining which teachers were laid off, according to a 2022 policy brief published in the journal Education Finance and Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — It was homecoming week, and for the first time there was a buzz in the halls of KIPP Renaissance Charter High School about Friday’s big football game. Students were discussing plans to go, and alumni were coming by the school in the city’s 9th Ward to buy tickets. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion. Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In Germany, where scores have dropped faster than those of many other PISA nations, researchers pointed to a collapsing interest in math as a subject that started around 2012, among other factors. And about 31 percent said they never or almost never asked questions when they didn’t understand the math they were being taught.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Hutchinson Central Technical High School senior Karolina Espinosa will be attending Buffalo State in the fall on a Say Yes tuition scholarship. When 18-year-old Karolina Espinosa looks back to her freshman year at Buffalo’s Hutchinson Central Technical High School, graduation seemed like a long shot. “At BUFFALO, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Debates over racial segregation in exam schools were already raging around the country before the chaos of the pandemic hit. Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. For students of color to matriculate successfully through college to return and teach means that schooling truly added value to a system that apparently rejects black and brown talent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In high school, Carlos Granillo was a standout honor student and multisport athlete whose hard work earned him admission to the state’s flagship university, the University of Colorado Boulder. Coming from a high school in Aurora that was 60 percent to 70 percent Latino, he figured he’d find a good number of Latinos on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. The university says faculty are working hard on recruitment and have launched a pre-college eSports institute for high school students to stimulate interest.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. Historic photos of lumber yards hang in the high school lobby. ONALASKA, Wash.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

That’s in part because so much effort has been put into encouraging high school graduates to go to college for academic degrees rather than for training in industrial and other trades that many fields like his face worker shortages. All throughout high school, they made it sound like going to college was our only option.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. But at this school, that’s not enough. 86 percent — Capital City’s four-year high school graduation rate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. Now a team of economists has produced a study that calculates how a family’s attitudes about women can impede girls’ math achievement at school. “Boy bias is in the culture. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “Parenting is really hard.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

“It evens the playing field for those schools [that] use it wisely,” says Los Angeles Unified School District Social Emotional Learning Wellness Director Asia Dove, who has used the program with struggling students since 2012. Related: What happens when a regular high school decides no student is a lost cause?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

More of the teenagers graduating from high schools in Appalachia look like Janeth Barrera Cantu, and fewer, like the middle- and upper-class whites from which local colleges and universities including Lenoir-Rhyne have historically drawn their enrollments. They might as well be in two different worlds. Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Other students confront the challenge of having had inadequate high school preparation. It’s mostly not just one obstacle or one incident that makes a student decide to leave school, researchers and educators say. Difficulty catching up and feeling included. That’s another barrier right there,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When he fled Honduras for New Orleans two years ago, Carlos, now 16 and a high school junior, hoped for just two things: a quiet place to live and an opportunity to play real soccer on a real team. A high school squad, he thought, would be the best place to start. Few New Orleans high schools have soccer teams.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

She’d been imprinted with those colors 43 years ago, in 1976, when she graduated from George Washington Carver High School in the city’s Ninth Ward, known throughout New Orleans for its orange and green uniforms and its Carver Ram mascot. Some schools moved into new buildings emblazoned with new names. I’m proud of me.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

By the time its students graduate to middle school, they are well on their way to mastering both written and spoken English and Spanish, said principal Victoria Hunt, who was part of the group that founded the school in 2012 after more than two decades as a dual language teacher and assistant principal. public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. That rate for eighth graders peaked in 2012, with about 16 percent reaching proficiency or advanced status.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Trombone players in the David Douglas High School Marching Band march in the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland in June. He’s setting aside most of the money for college, but some goes to feed a school-year habit he just can’t kick: playing the trombone. Anna Medina, a high school flutist in Portland, Oregon. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Students walk the halls of Helena-West Helena’s Central High School between class periods. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2012, a Times-Picayune reporter, Andrea Chen, dubbed Louisiana the “ world’s prison capital ” because of its uncommonly high incarceration rates. But the state has to give up the cultural practice and business of punishing black people through mass incarceration. Profit played a part in the state’s penal excess.

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