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

MAY 19, 2024

Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For a long portion of their history, education schools didn’t have to think much about recruitment. “We In the last two or three years, though, this education college has started working with high schools in the area to introduce students to its program and sell them on the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

While protesters march for racial justice and Americans call for an end to police brutality, we must not overlook the role that our schools play in our nation’s systemic injustices. No children should have to walk school hallways afraid that a gun will be pulled on them by an SRO before they reach class. So, where do we go from here?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. During my first year as principal of a Mississippi middle school, I fought to recruit Black teachers and retain the ones I already had on my campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

“I think there is optimism based on this worldwide movement and the fact that there’s worldwide attention on the way Black folks have been treated in this country for hundreds of years now,” said Alim, who is the Midwest engagement manager for the Young Invincibles youth advocacy group. The question I would ask is, ‘What is being done?’

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. Nationally, 76 percent of people with disabilities have high school diplomas and only 12 percent have college diplomas.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

“The Green New Deal for Schools is so important right now in the U.S., The campaign is part of a growing recognition of the importance of schools and young people in the fight against climate change. Signing up for her school’s environmental justice club and being connected to Sunrise, she said, “made me feel less alone.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. More advocacy.”. at Nashville State Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. But after enrolling Ernest Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. based education advocacy group. “It

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

School diversion programs are still relatively new. Despite his 15 years as a high school social worker for the district and, before that, five years working in residential treatment facilities and a local clinic, Wylie took two weeks to research the concept before accepting the position at the start of the 2021school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2019

Similar to a doctor with a bedside manner that fosters respect and trust when working with patients and their families, teachers can design initial and subsequent interactions with families that demonstrate trust, collaboration and advocacy, giving them a better chance of effectively meeting the needs of students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive. Little has changed since.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“My son has always really liked school because he really does like that interaction with his peers and other children his age,” said Richmond. “So Maryland mother Veronica’s son was banned from attending his high school after the school district concluded he posed a threat. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Ifetayo Kitwala, an 11th-grade student at Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore. Do they feel that way?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. He had high cognitive scores, but evaluators said he did not show skill gaps in the areas he needed to qualify as dyslexic.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. These centers house impressive work spaces — one at Wando High School in Mount Pleasant contains a fully equipped beauty salon that takes appointments, studios for producing radio and T.V.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

He has long taken issue with the “broken” way our country finances its schools: primarily with local property taxes that unfairly advantage students from wealthy communities, which are often also majority white because of the U.S.’s s long history of segregation and racist policies. Dixon has three daughters in the district. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Speaking of the state’s flagship campus, the University of Georgia, he added, “When I go to visit a school like UGA, which has way more white students, it doesn’t feel the same. Only about 7 percent of UGA students are African-American in a state where 34 percent of high school graduates are black. It feels normal.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. BRENTWOOD, N.Y. Steven Martinez’s life was turned upside down by an ill-conceived joke.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. The year before, the parent teacher association at Garfield High cleared $40,000 in raffle tickets for a Nissan Leaf. This story also appeared in South Seattle Emerald and The Nation. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. a former assistant U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 92

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tameka never graduated from high school and has worked occasionally as a security guard or a housecleaner for hotels. A school social worker summarized the encounter: “Discussed students’ attendance history, the impact it has on the student and barriers. His death left her overwhelmed and penniless.

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Public School High School Economics Advocacy 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. Talbott experienced microaggressions at times. Talbott has no regrets about the job move.

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