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Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. You know how Ms.

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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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2014: That’s the year that Wilcox County High School, in rural Georgia, held its first school-sponsored, racially integrated prom. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event. Related: Become a lifelong learner. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

remember as a young reporter for The State newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia, driving with a colleague in 1999 to the old Bishopville High School in rural Lee County. The school was still in operation, despite having been condemned. But the school recently saw its state report card rating tumble.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

DeAndre Arnold has attended the Barbers Hill Independent School District his entire life; in high school, he grew his hair into locs. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School gave multiple detentions to twin sisters Deanna and Mya Cook for their hair extensions and prevented them from attending their junior prom in 2017.

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MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. So did worries that high schools are placing too much emphasis on calculus and not enough on practical skills like data analysis and statistics for an increasingly high-tech world.

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JUNE 18, 2020

While protesters march for racial justice and Americans call for an end to police brutality, we must not overlook the role that our schools play in our nation’s systemic injustices. No children should have to walk school hallways afraid that a gun will be pulled on them by an SRO before they reach class. So, where do we go from here?

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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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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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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. percent in 2017 to 9.2 We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Without advice from a counselor, D’naysha Griggs says she would not have known how to talk about her work history and family obligations in her college applications. Griggs is a senior at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics high school. Richard Weissbourd, senior lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. “Oh, Rick Worthington, Vista High School ninth-grade Wellness teacher.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. Vitter in June 2017, six sites were chosen. OXFORD, Miss.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. About 700 public campuses received less in state and local appropriations in 2017-18 than in 2009-10, and about 190 private four-year institutions saw the size of their endowments fall relative to their costs.

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MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. BRENTWOOD, N.Y.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

As chief of Finland’s association of eight national university teacher training schools, he is, in effect, the Master Teacher of Finland, the country which still has, despite many challenges and a recent slide in global test scores, the No. Children must feel like their school is a home for them, it belongs to them,” says Happonen.

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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. At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Michael Gallin is a math teacher at Kappa International High School in the Bronx. NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. Now, I say: ‘I can do this.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S. She carried a 4.0

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. But after enrolling Ernest Jr.,

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Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. And many of her students’ parents do not speak English.

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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. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school. Maybe a house that has no mold, no pests, no cracks, no floor that sinks.”. She paused. Credit: Barbara Shelly.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Ifetayo Kitwala, an 11th-grade student at Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore. Do they feel that way?

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

She lacked mentors in high school and college. If she had had them, they might have advised her on which jobs to take and recommended her for positions that could have forged a more direct path to law school and eventually, a career as a lawyer. It’s just taking me a little longer than I expected.”.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother. percent in 2017 , according to the Migration Policy Institute. In 2017, a pork-packing plant opened and brought another 2,400 jobs to the city.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

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APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Significant changes in disparities for African-American students.

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MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Prophet Giles III works through questions, similar to those seen on the math portion of the Praxis Core exam, during a RISE teacher certification cohort class at Coahoma Early College High School in Clarksdale, Mississippi in late January. Aallyah Wright for Mississippi Today. CLARKSDALE, Miss. It proved to be an academic lifeline.

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JULY 15, 2018

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. The school, located in the heart of San Antonio’s slowly revitalizing downtown, is just a stone’s throw from some of the city’s big employers. Photo: Bekah McNeel/The Hechinger Report. All of this is by design.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences in Philadelphia. What makes your school unique? Weekly Update.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Brown is one of a growing number of young people in Illinois who have earned a high school diploma from School District 428, run by the state’s department of juvenile justice. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017.

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