The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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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. Our world presents increasingly complex challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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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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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

By embracing restorative justice, schools can create a culture of accountability, healing and growth that benefits everyone involved. Reflecting on my journey from fear to advocacy, I am reminded of the transformative power of restorative justice. It’s about breaking the cycle of fear and punitive discipline.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

What I would like to discuss are ways that schools can provide increased value to students based on changes to the learning culture. A school can and should provide a meaningful learning experience for students. Kids should want to come to school and learn. This encounter translated into an “aha” moment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. As a teacher and school-based leader, I always understood the necessity of advocating for students and helping them navigate life, and I tried to help other teachers change the trajectory of many lives. The students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But by the time her son, Ian, entered high school, Barrera decided to invite a bilingual volunteer from a local nonprofit to sit with her and to remind the school team of her rights. “I But schools throughout the country sometimes fail to provide those services. He once came home with a chunk of hair missing, she said.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

This might require a cultural shift in some cases, but given the soaring cost of tuition, it is necessary for institutions to think about return on investment for students and their parents, not only in intellectual terms but also monetarily.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Johnathan Vest, director of choral activities at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee. Cultural and social relevance. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. Johnathan Vest is the director of choral activities at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

schools frequently marginalize these students’ languages and cultures, but they tend to host ineffective educational approaches. Related: ‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school. Not only do U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

They also lack the self-advocacy skills necessary to navigate their new environments. Each campus has an invisible cultural system that is familiar to some and unfamiliar and potentially inhospitable to others.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America. And when you start seeing that change, then we’ll know that we’ve made it as a community.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

During my sophomore year of high school, I experienced something completely unprecedented and, until that year, I hadn’t realized how vital it was to my self-esteem, self-identification and self-growth. public schools are minorities, and far more than 50 percent of teachers are white. Over 50 percent of students in U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

High school students could do internships or community service one day per week, with light (or remote) supervision by school adults with more flex time elsewhere. Changing the all-there-all-week culture of schools can allow even dedicated aides and other support staff a half day a week of personal flex time.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Troy Alim, Midwest engagement manager for the Young Invincibles youth advocacy group. It was the last straw,” she said. “I I changed majors.”. “I The question I would ask is, ‘What is being done?’

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. Orion Taylor visited Ole Miss when he was a senior in high school and fell in love with the campus. More than a third of U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. We're working with educators and talking about school culture and safety and nurturing, and what do thriving schools look like?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. Difficulty catching up and feeling included.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Students at Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, work with machinery in the school’s mechatronics lab. It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Holloman, says the university’s “newness and brashness” made it easier to create a culture supportive of black students. So the aggressive outreach from Georgia State’s advisors can be a revelation, evidence that someone at the school cares about them. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools. Nearly half of BPS students first learned a language other than English, with more than 75 languages represented across the city’s schools. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H. But the state line does make a difference in the schools. “At Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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