The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

States, on the other hand, establish high school graduation requirements and provide broad instructional guidance through learning standards. For most K-12 students, civics is a one and done single-semester high school course. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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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

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

MARCH 27, 2025

And hed struggled to finish high school. He recalls feeling so overwhelmed that he cried on the second day of school. The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. He had lost a parent to addiction.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

Image credit: www.theinfohound.com/ Value-added schooling became important to me during my early years as a high school principal. In 2009 as I took a device from a student for failing to follow school policy that student responded to me that school was like a jail. This encounter translated into an “aha” moment.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

You could tell it what’s important to you (like location, play-based learning or a focus on the arts), and it could suggest schools that might be a good fit. It would be like having a super-smart friend who knows a lot about schools and can give you lots of ideas.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District. DeKalb County School District. Edgecombe County Public Schools. Florence City Schools. Gulf Shores City Schools. Maine Township High School District 207. McComb School District. Mehlville School District.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

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 Adults with some college make up about 28 percent of the American population.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They contend the district eliminated tracking in middle and high school without seriously harming enrollments in AP Calculus, based on the data three years after implementation from the Stanford study. Still, the change was working, according to Nguyen and Iwasaki.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles. It has a collection of creative and artistic activities for kids, including an advocacy poem, talking points for families, and collage activity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Seniors at High Tech High School’s Media Arts campus in San Diego work on a project examining teenage stress and how to decrease it at a point in students’ lives when they’re making high-stakes decisions about college and careers. Photo: Margaret Noble.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2024

An overhaul last year meant to simplify the process only made things worse, with delays and technical problems that led to even lower completion rates and contributed to a decline of 7 percentage points in the proportion of high school seniors going directly to college, according to the National College Attainment Network, or NCAN.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Paola De La Torre Macias and Brian Torales, who started college this fall already having completed remediation courses while still in high school. Stephanie Lewis and one of her students both cried when he graduated in the spring from South Pittsburg High School in Tennessee, where she teaches English.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. Related: To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade Number two: Youth ambassador opportunities that develop leadership and advocacy skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Poor instruction and progress for students with learning disabilities Monica McHale-Small is the director of education at the Learning Disabilities Association of America, which advocates for children with dyslexia and other learning struggles. She emailed me.

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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. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Johnathan Vest, director of choral activities at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. Johnathan Vest is the director of choral activities at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee. How we do music education may be changing.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. Data and research show that access to college coursework while in high school increases college enrollment, success and graduation rates and has a positive impact on academic performance.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

Men, however, are elevated to high school principalships and district positions that include fiscal or operational roles — precisely the kind of experiences that are prioritized during superintendent search processes. Of respondents who had been principals, fewer than 20 percent served in a high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

In high school, I was the only student of color in all but one of my advanced classes. Except for my time on the basketball team and some joyful moments in study hall, I didn’t see my friends from the neighborhood at school. A proud product of Atlantic City High School in New Jersey, Howard Bell is the CEO of Abl.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. After 40 years of teaching English to high school students in New Jersey, Olga Polites knows how critical media literacy education is in today’s digital age.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Last month, just 40 minutes away from our home in Portland, Oregon, high school students participated in a virtual slave trade, where students joked about how much they’d pay for their Black classmates. They even said things like “All Blacks should die” and “They can run but they can’t hide.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The novel follows the twins Joshua and Christophe, who recently graduated high school. Many of the advocacy groups that filed challenges did so multiple times in different school districts. One enters the workforce and begins to mature, while the other starts selling drugs.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Prepare Students for Independence: In the classroom, introduce time management exercises, self-advocacy skills, or real-world problem-solving scenarios. These habits ease the shift from high school to college life. These conversations can strengthen their relationship and ease the transition.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Between 1995 and 2018, the percentage of Latinos with a high school diploma rose from 53 percent to 72 percent. Those include early college programs that allow students to earn college credits while still in high school. Unfortunately, the pandemic has set us back several years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

These are the findings of a new report released by Save the Children, which analyzed data on food insecurity, high school graduation rates, adolescent birth rates, and child death and infant mortality rates for counties nationwide. Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. And many of her students’ parents do not speak English.

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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 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. RELATED: Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights? Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 A recent survey of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Reflecting on my journey from fear to advocacy, I am reminded of the transformative power of restorative justice. It won’t happen overnight, but with perseverance and collective effort, we can create school systems in which every student feels seen, heard and valued. It’s about breaking the cycle of fear and punitive discipline.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, these actions have taken many forms, from advocacy to direct action to storytelling. This year, in observance of Earth Day 2019: Protect Our Species , we’re sharing a story from students at Churchill High School in San Antonio, Texas. Photo courtesy of Robin Morriss). From Empathy to Action.

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