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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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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.

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MARCH 2, 2020

High school students comfort each other on Chicago’s South Side. A new Chicago study shows that students who attend schools that foster soft skills do better in high school and beyond. We hear the phrase “failing schools” a lot but what really defines a failing school? Weekly Update.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Research suggests that when technology is effectively used in schools, access may help to bridge educational and social gaps (Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010; Eccles, 2009; National Science Foundation, 2017). middle and high schools for 1,700 students across 22 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

The study’s authors followed students who in 2008-2009 received the Wisconsin Scholars Grant, which is reserved for Pell grant -eligible students from Wisconsin who graduated from a state high school (or received an equivalency diploma) and attended a state college or university, among other criteria. Choose as many as you like.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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APRIL 17, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It was terrible for me in high school. In high school, I dreaded math class,” she said. The tiered placement method considers ACT scores, then a student’s high school GPA and appropriate grades, with a placement test as a final option, Fricks said. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 I hated math.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Playing a game of insults, that’s all well and good,” said Jennifer Dean, an educational consultant and former English teacher who has a Ph.D This first study certainly casts doubt on the content of these lessons in high school English. Choose from our newsletters.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

19, 2021 to eliminate the essay portion of the SAT may have delighted millions of current and future high school students but its discontinuation could also be a loss for students of color and those whose primary language isn’t English. The College Board’s decision on Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Matthew Porter, a student at Craig High School, inspects a “collaborative” robot at Prent Corporation, in Janesville, Wisconsin. The high school students clustered around a four-foot-tall red robot with long arms and cartoonish eyes. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. JANESVILLE, Wis. — That compares with a 1.6

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2016

We at Digital Promise are very excited about the launch of the filmMAKER Challenge , an opportunity for middle and high school students to learn about and engage in product design and filmmaking. Through the challenge, students will use human-centered design strategies to solve real-world problems and share their solutions broadly.

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The Hechinger Report

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

DECEMBER 5, 2017

James Lawrence, a 2017 graduate of the Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, holds wooden duck decoys he made for an art credit his senior year. James Lawrence planned to open his own welding business after his 2017 graduation from the Robert W. Photo courtesy of Susan Johnson. Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Middle-skills jobs, which include positions in fields such as health care, IT, and sales, require some training or education beyond high school, although not necessarily a B.A. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) in, say, the humanities might get workers off to a slow start.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. A few years ago, the Dominguez Hills researchers watched hundreds of middle school, high school and university students as they studied. But true multitasking is a myth.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Ten percent of high school seniors planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going. About half say they will enroll at a community college. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

His school had resumed in-person learning during the pandemic and so he had the option to take either version. But would it be wiser for the night owl to wake up early to be taught by a human? Others, such as a 2017 study at a large for-profit school, have found that online course takers are more likely to fail and drop out of college.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. Yes, even kindergarteners are using apps at school.) Schools often buy many of them. A report was released in November 2018.

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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. 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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2018

The completion rate for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, among 2018 high school graduates barely improved from the class of 2017, according to a July report from the nonprofit organization National College Access Network. percent of graduates completed the FAFSA by June 29; among 2017 graduates, 60.6

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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. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dintersmith supported a statewide education summit hosted by Governor Doug Burgum, a former software executive who is no stranger to the innovation economy. That’s exactly what schools all across the country need, Dintersmith argues. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Making people upwardly mobile requires providing great schools and dismantling systems that keep students from receiving what they need to be successful. Every parent deserves choices about where they will send their child to school,” proclaimed Texas Governor Greg according to a Texas Observer report on a 2017 rally for school choice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

The Penn State findings echo a 2017 survey by the nonprofit media watchdog, Common Sense, which found that low-income children were sitting in front of a television or a computer screen for almost double the time of a child from a wealthier family. Our study provides some indication of the groups.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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. CAST Tech is a career-focused public high school in San Antonio.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Six years later, according to one 2017 study , the retained kids weren’t testing any higher than their promoted peers at the same age. One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Ifetayo Kitwala, an 11th-grade student at Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore. What do you plan to do after you graduate from high school? Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. I want to be the president. Let me just quit.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Updated data for all 50 states, showing the disparities between African-American and Latino high school graduates and African-American and Latino freshman enrollment at flagship universities, can be seen here. Flagship institution.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2017

She was “shocked,” she says, to find that out of 878 potentially relevant studies published between 1992 and 2017, only 36 directly compared reading in digital and in print and measured learning in a reliable way. The finding was supported by numerous studies and held true for students in college, high school and grade school.

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