The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A troubling post-pandemic pattern is emerging across the nation’s schools: test scores and attendance are down, yet more students are earning high school diplomas. suggests bleak futures for many of these high school graduates, given the declining rate of college attendance and completion. A majority of D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Students miss school for reasons ranging from anxiety to unstable living conditions, said Jason Jones, a cultural success coach at San Carlos High School. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Students from LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts perform ’42nd Street.’ ’ on March 19, 2018 in New York City. On a personal level, I care deeply about the school she led, formally known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. In 2018, approximately 15 percent of American students were considered chronically absent ; in 2022, that number had risen to 28 percent. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

By the summer of 2018, it had been more than 30 years since Maronda Mims had started her college journey. Census data shows that about 26 percent of Americans have only a high school diploma, 36 percent have earned a bachelors degree or higher and 10 percent have not finished high school. Nationally, there were 36.8

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. PHOENIX, Ariz.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland and the Slovak Republic, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. This week marks a full year since many school buildings around the country closed and the pandemic changed the way our children learn. That’s ambitious.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 Students suit up for medical assistant class at Walker High School in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Answering a question in front of the class activates the same fight or flight response as if a “tiger was in a classroom” (Posey, 2018). Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. References CAST (2018). I sat next to the bookshelf and placed my notes on a shelf in view.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

start time for high schools and middle schools so that teens can get sufficient sleep. Schools have been slow to heed the doctors’ advice. high schools start the day at 8:30 a.m. The average start time for high school across the nation remains a half hour earlier, at 8:00 a.m. on average.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

High school teacher, Tennessee. As students and teachers return to school, many are focused on rebuilding the relationships that 84 percent of teachers felt suffered during the pandemic. “Connection is the most important piece of the puzzle for the student-teacher relationship. I hope that students feel comfortable using it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. Another major impediment for too many students already struggling to begin or continue their higher-education path: a lack of access to high-speed internet. Now is not the time to lose focus.

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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. million in 2018. Their combined enrollment fell from 3,264 students in 2012-13 to 2,227 in 2018-19, according to federal data. million in 2018. million cut.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Cutting class size appears to be increasingly popular as school districts figure out how to spend their $190 billion in federal money for coronavirus relief, according to media reports.

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The Hechinger Report

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. That’s often because they moved slowly. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2021

I’d traded my high school class of 18 students — the same 18 students I’d known my entire life — for a class of over 1,000. For me, the challenges began in high school. My high school didn’t offer any honors or Advanced Placement classes — I had exhausted its “advanced” curriculum by my junior year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When I was a school superintendent in Maine, the five cities and towns that comprised our learning community wanted assurances that graduates of our three high schools would be adequately prepared for college or career training opportunities after high school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. But in high school, an advantage for the preschoolers re-emerged.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The 18 percent disadvantage for Black candidates was calculated after controlling for education, years of experience, type of school (elementary, middle or high school) and location (city, suburb or rural area). On the contrary, Texas schools are known for having a more diverse leadership than most other states.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

One of the papers is here: In recent years, books have been regularly published that try to answer what the essence of geography is, what geography is useful for (Murphy 2018, Crane 2020), or why it is beneficial to study geography at high school or university (Parkinson 2020; Tate, Hopkins 2020).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

That four-year average had doubled to 14 by 2014 before reaching 32 by 2018. Hundreds more post-secondary institutions offering non-degree programs – from cosmetology to midwifery to manufacturing schools – have shuttered over the past 15 years. The result is fewer students enrolling and far fewer tuition dollars coming in.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

Alternative high schools often get a bad rap. New York’s transfer schools are frequently featured on the city’s lists of schools that need improvement and are threatened with closure. argues that New York’s transfer schools are doing a much better job at educating struggling students than traditional schools.

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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.

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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. For now, each university is largely on its own, and UW-Madison’s ability to raise additional funds dwarfs that of the other schools. That’s less money than UW-Madison’s foundation gave to the university in 2018 alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2020

What if a short digital game for young children could help lower the high school drop out rate? Research shows if a child is not reading by the end of third grade, they are far more likely to drop out of high school , which means early support can be critical.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores. The study, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, calculated that every Fahrenheit degree increase in the outdoor temperature over a school year reduced that year’s learning by 1 percent. (An

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. In high school, you kind of still get to go home at the end of the day,” said Ashe. The account is “for stories, it’s for awareness, it’s for learning,” said Haylee Price, who launched the account with Kyndall Ashe on June 10.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Beginning in 2007, the district’s financial situation and declining enrollment were impeding its ability to equitably serve the student population.

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