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But the district had no plans for changes to other grades, much less to do away with high school honors classes. Math teacher Jordan Baines of Troy, Michigan, with students at Boulan Park Middle School. Then, for six years, the school made no other changes. Credit: Amanda J. I’m not going to hurt your kid,’” she said.

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MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

The complaint states that 17,323 black and Latino teens attend a school with no PSAL teams at all. The complaint states that 17,323 black and Latino teens attend a school with no PSAL teams at all. The P.S.A.L. funds teams for about 45,000 student-athletes citywide. According to P.S.A.L.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

The skills being taught here are in high demand. 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. It’s a pretty safe bet.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Johnson is the mother of three girls.

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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. Weekly Update.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. Nationally, 76 percent of people with disabilities have high school diplomas and only 12 percent have college diplomas.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When I, Jaiden, entered high school in 2017, I had just started identifying as transgender, and it was scary. Related: OPINION: Three ways to turn schools into safe learning environments for LGBTQ students in post-Orlando America. This felt true for me, as I am one of the few transgender students at my school.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. White, like many adult students, has quality work experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Related: Many who pass state high school graduation tests show up to college unprepared. It focuses predominantly on essay writing.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. But computer usage in schools was still novel then. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. It took several months, however, so even though she opened a case with VR in the fall of Robert’s senior year in high school, he started college in the fall of 2013 with none of the supports he needed, and she took out loans to cover all the costs. “I

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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. Profit played a part in the state’s penal excess. “A Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2017

Community High School. million students — is that the 40-plus schools using the method are doing so voluntarily, as part of a grassroots movement. In communities where the shift has been mandated – high schools in and around Portland, Me., In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: In a second analysis of 35 years of national survey data, the researchers found a strong correlation between a young woman’s beliefs about women’s roles and her future daughters’ subsequent math scores. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At George Washington Carver High School, a predominately black and low-income school in the city’s Ninth Ward, Moore raised his hand every chance he got. Leave this field empty if you're human: When he asked how many wanted to attend college, almost every hand went up. Landan Moore, a Louisiana high school senior.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Inside a rural high school, five Advanced Placement physics students furiously scribbled notes about a video of a Yale University professor speaking more than 1,200 miles away. A few years ago, the Holmes County school district offered a few college-level AP courses at only one of its three high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Hechinger Report Colby-Sawyer College has added graduate programs in high-demand health fields for which it plans a $15 million School of Nursing and Health Sciences on the site of this old science building. Still, undergraduate enrollment at the school has fallen steadily, from 1,414 in 2012, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Ivy” is really Kelsee Morgan, 16, a junior in high school. Like every girl in her tent, she attends school in Crook County, Oregon. But, as far as she knows, no other state is considering funding an outdoor school experience for all children. Attendance at outdoor school statewide has been uneven.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By high school, Courtney was a bundle of contradictions. Leave this field empty if you're human: In school, Courtney had a reduced workload, a paraprofessional teacher assigned to help her in her classes and was allowed other accommodations, like permission to dictate answers and use a calculator.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “After he joined, my oldest son began to love coming to school,” said Beijing-born Feili Ye, the mother of two club members. Her son, Aaron Wang, starred as the title character in “The Music Man” in the 2015-16 school year.) But to the parents, it’s worth it. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

QUEENS, N.Y. — When Ismelda Mejia, 16, a junior at a large public high school in the Bronx, was invited to the principal’s office earlier this fall along with nine of her classmates, she was thrilled to discover the reason why. Legal Outreach Staff member Tamika Edwards leads a class discussion. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. MOST targets high school seniors who are members of underrepresented minorities and brings them to campus for three days. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. “We It has worked.”.

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MARCH 8, 2020

Fresh out of high school, I attended Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York, for my freshman year before transferring to nearby Le Moyne College in 2008. Healthcare was my general interest, so I returned to Onondaga to get my associate degree in human services in 2010, followed by my L.P.N. It began in 2007.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If accepted, he planned to live at home with his mother and younger brother to save money and walk or, if he was lucky, get a ride to school. He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. Tale of two high schools. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Participating are Dr. Thomas Ralston, Superintendent of Avonworth School District in Pennsylvania, and Colette Coleman of Zinc Learning Labs, an online literacy platform for middle and high school students. As a human being, I hate being sold to. NN: Thank you so much for your time today. It’s more with processes.

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