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Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of a $4 billion initiative called Race to the Top, the federal government tried to persuade states to measure the performance of teachers, rank them, pay bonuses to the best teachers and fire the worst ones. One of the most controversial and largest education reforms of the Obama era was an effort to improve teacher quality.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. Dozens of colleges and universities nationwide started 2020 already under financial stress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. DeAndre Arnold has attended the Barbers Hill Independent School District his entire life; in high school, he grew his hair into locs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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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. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. She kept her job at her local Big Lots, where she had worked during high school. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

One high school study of small science classes concluded that class size had to fall to 10 or fewer students to reap academic gains. A large 2017 study of 14 nations in Europe, including Germany, Austria and Italy, found that reducing class sizes neither increased achievement nor reduced achievement gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2020

With plumed caps and braided epaulets for miles, marching bands are a staple of the high school football game. Girls in flared skirts and knee-high boots triumphantly wave flags or twirl wooden rifles. . The typical participant is not a super star on the football field or in student government. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Fifth graders in California’s Cajon Valley Union School District learn about many careers, including how the stock market works. Gio’s focus on the future is part of “The World of Work,” a curriculum that begins in kindergarten and continues through high school. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on the cyber security problem in schools. In this instance, school employees accidentally posted the information. In a third case, a high school survey that asked students to identify bullies or their victims was inadvertently shared by staff.

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JUNE 14, 2022

which we published last Monday in partnership with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, focuses on Collins Elementary School in the Covington County Public Schools in southeastern Mississippi. Related: ‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddle students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

High school Advanced Placement. Government and Politics curriculum. Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. After multiple suspensions, Kemp’s son dropped out of high school during his junior year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In Louisiana, state officials have gotten students excited about what seems like a tedious task by turning it into a competition among high schools. Each month, the students from the school with the greatest gains in FAFSA completion earn bragging rights when their school’s name is in the winner’s spot. Money for college.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. Forest school — also known as nature school, forest kindergarten and outdoor school — isn’t a new idea; such schools have existed in the United States since the mid-1960s, but interest has increased in recent years. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone. Late last year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Griggs is a senior at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics high school. Admissions officers at top schools tend to value community service — the sort of activities that low-income students who are determined to help their families and find ways to save for college may not have time for. Fiza Shaikh, high school student.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Sh’Tejah Ward graduated from high school in 2019, after getting straight A’s for her final three semesters. In 2017-18, the average cost of attendance at UW-Madison, including tuition, room and board and other expenses, was $5,445 for in-state freshmen coming from families making less than $30,000 a year. GPA into a 3.2.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

High school Junior Andrew Johnson-getting his dreadlocks cut off by a trainer so he can wrestle in a match. Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 percent of all public school students, but about 39 percent of students suspended from school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

. For my last two years of high school, I was homeless. Government Accountability Office. In its first year after opening, from September 2017 to August 2018, the Hub served over 14,000 of UCI’s students and continues to serve up to 750 students per week. I chose to stay silent. Capitalize on cross-sector partnerships.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. begin language study in middle or high school. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2019

government of hundreds of thousands of dollars through elaborate schemes. For instance, when I was born in 1970, less than five percent of all black women who were the head of their households had some form of postsecondary educational attainment, according to 2017 information I compiled based on census data.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Students in the community attend Bragg Middle School (pictured here) and Gardendale High School. One night in 2017, Leslie Williams saw a post on Facebook about a meeting later that evening at Gardendale City Hall. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board decision.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well. Still, she said, Black student participation in STEM classes ticked up slightly, to 5 percent, in the most recent school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Mikaela Johnson, with her mother, Ashley Johnson, faces uncertain high school plans because of the coronavirus pandemic and her family’s unstable housing situation. She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. She paused.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. at Nashville State Community College. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

Kirk asks: “Where are the effective high school tech & trade programs in the U.S. He’s a senior at Passaic County Technical Institute, a public high school in New Jersey that offers work-based learning programs in fields ranging from business and applied technology to construction and cosmetology. WAYNE, N.J.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. Credit: Brett Gundlock for The New York Times. I don’t understand why that isn’t happening — now.”.

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JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Aon, a London-based insurance giant, opened its U.S.

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