ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. They didn't want to work in groups.

Cultures 140

Cultures Junior High Middle School Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

One in four universities were test-optional by the end of 2019, but the obstacles to group test-taking created by the Covid-19 pandemic increased that number substantially; two-thirds of four-year higher education institutions in the U.S. The University of San Francisco also went test-optional before the pandemic, in 2019.

Junior High 132

Junior High Tutoring High School Economics 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

These concerns, coupled with crowding in primary schools — the result of an influx of new immigrants — led to the creation, starting around 1910, of standalone “junior high schools” for seventh through ninth graders. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise.

Middle School 131

Middle School Junior High Elementary School High School 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Those figures may seem at odds with the state’s 2019 NAEP scores, in which black students outperformed their national peers on the fourth-grade reading exam. By the time Morgigno was in junior high school, the town had become more racially diverse, with a population that was about 11 percent black.

K-12 124

K-12 Junior High Elementary School Sociology 124

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In 2019, the president of the IFF called public schools “the most virulent form of socialism (and indoctrination thereto) in America today,” adding, “I don’t think government should be in the education business.”) But the main issue, the state’s board said, was the district’s “decision to employ a non-certified individual as superintendent.”

Elementary School 142

Elementary School Junior High High School Public School 142