Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

I’ve been teaching 9th and 10th grade English at Windsor High School for the last 13 years. I’m beyond excited to bring all of my ideas to fruition as I work to make my perfect teaching position a reality for the 2016-2017 school year.

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. Take, for instance, Glendale Union High School District. Bajah Ali, principal of El Dorado High School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Chinle High senior Cooper Burbank shooting hoops with his younger brother. Nachae Nez is a basketball star at the largest high school on the Navajo Nation, 17.5 Native Americans are routinely left out of the national education conversation, and yet they face some of the longest odds in getting through high school and college.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Talladega County Schools is partnering with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) to deepen teachers’ content knowledge in STEM education and promote strong pedagogical and technological skills for student instruction. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Colleges are embracing the need for students to get out of the classroom, says LaDale Winling, a history professor at Virginia Tech and author of the book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, which came out in 2017. The acoustics in there are pretty insane, she adds.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. I absolutely hated math in high school. Applied algebra is her last chance.

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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. Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Brian Stack is principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, and co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017). Jonathan Vander Els is director of innovative projects for the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and a former school principal.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. Overall, yes, certifications are good.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. Women were also much less likely to get promoted to principal at high schools, the authors found. High school principal positions are a traditional pathway to district superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2020

The University of La Verne in Southern California has had twice as many traditional undergraduates sign up for the summer as it did last year. The University of La Verne in Southern California doubled summer enrollment among traditional undergraduates this year, the school said. Credit: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades. Advocates believe that students learn more when class time is spent actively learning instead of passively listening.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

The district provides opportunities to its students through its emphasis on the fundamental ABCs – adapting, balancing, and collaborating – which they will highlight at the spring 2017 League of Innovative Schools meeting in late April. Adapting to create innovative environments. As a result of a $13.8

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The Hechinger Report

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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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. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

High school Advanced Placement. Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are hot fields in a state with a growing tech sector that employs 12,140 people , but whose existing colleges and universities collectively produced only 103 computer science graduates with bachelor’s degrees or higher in 2017 — the last year for which the figures are available — including just 10 with master’s degrees.

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Students of History

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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Jessica Ramos, a 17-year-old senior at Skyline High School in Oakland, California, sits outside the Oakland Town Hall with her dog Lucky. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools team had the opportunity to visit multiple districts in the first quarter of 2017 — and we have so much more to see! While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

But a more surprising species is spreading through the college registrar’s rolls: teenagers living at home, taking yellow buses to high school and maybe scrambling home before curfew. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The number of high schoolers taking college classes has been surging for more than two decades.

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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

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

APRIL 22, 2019

This story about school debt is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. In a combined biology/literature class, students at James Lick High School complete assignments using school-supplied Chromebooks. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

districts the organization is tracking were planning to offer summer school for elementary and middle school students in 2020, as of the latest update , on June 9. Summer school is more prevalent for high schools students to retake failed classes.) Only slightly more than half of the 100 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. Related: OPINION: Career planning in middle school prepares students for better workforce choices.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

It’s a bridge,” he said shortly after schools closed, adding that whatever schools do now “it has to be about social and emotional learning, not about sending home enough work to keep [students] busy.”. Mineola High School student Pamela Lopez records a podcast with the help of librarian Jeffrey Appelbaum.

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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. I would hire every qualified licensed teacher, our schools would, that we could find. Students walk the halls of Helena-West Helena’s Central High School between class periods.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2024

CHICAGO — Jazmin Mejia went straight from high school to what she thought was the perfect fit at Loyola University, a 30-minute drive from the Chicago neighborhood where she grew up. Thomas opened its associate degree program in 2017, there has been no friction between the university and St. I was struggling to ask for help.”

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