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. Schools are the first place where we see the humanity — or inhumanity — of people not in our families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 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? Last year, the U.S. A recent survey of U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. After all, Albert Einstein also had speech delays and received specialized (private) education to get ready for primary school. Hammering on a shaky foundation does not help.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

As a high school student, she founded the first chapter of Letters to Strangers , a nonprofit, youth-led organization where students shared anonymous letters about their mental health struggles and found camaraderie and support. That led me to get on my healing journey.” It’s OK to be a work in progress as much as anyone else.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Several states that previously required substitutes to have a bachelor’s degree lowered that threshold and now allow candidates with only a high school diploma to apply for emergency certification. A lot of substitutes only need a high school diploma and know very little about education,” Basile said.

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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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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. at Nashville State Community College. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Schools have embraced inclusion. . For the past 25 years, U.S.

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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

JULY 1, 2022

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that while a state is not required to fund a private, religious school, if public funding is extended to secular, private schools it must also be extended to religious schools. Jessica Levin, director of the advocacy campaign Public Funds Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Deborah Santiago, president of the national advocacy group Excelencia in Education, said she’s excited about Casa Latina because it is advancing what it means to support not only Latino students but Latino communities more broadly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Ten percent of high school seniors planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going. About half say they will enroll at a community college. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

It’s time that we flipped the script and focused less on ensuring “all kids go to college” and more on “all kids should choose a post-high school path that aligns with their career goals.”. Our language shouldn’t get in the way of that goal.”. So what’s the way forward? Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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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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

MAY 12, 2021

Related: Flagship universities fail to enroll Black and Latino high school graduates from their state. And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s. A new Washington State law requires that students who owe money be allowed to get their transcripts in order to apply for jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

The crisis has been stoked by years of budget cuts combined with an increased number of applicants, due to a growing awareness that good jobs require more than a high school diploma. Leave this field empty if you're human: “My friends and I have a hashtag we use — #TeamNoSleep,” said Ramirez, 24. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Four of them are already in college, two are graduating from high school this spring, and her husband has gone back to school in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. “I Turner works as the head of human resources for a flooring manufacturer and her husband works as an environmental health and safety manager for a field turf company.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Edward Gonzalez There has been some progress in the human-centered design movement, Raña says, where companies involve the end-users in a product's design — but she argues that the edtech landscape needs to do much more when it comes to designing for Latino and Black children. That is just and humanizing. You feel me?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. REDMOND, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There was something about the way history was taught at Staten Island Technical High School that disturbed Kellen Zeng, 18, of Staten Island. She presented her “witness testimony” as a Chinese war victim, accusing her classmate, who played Genghis Khan , of crimes against humanity. A student at the N.Y.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial. where 31 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are obese , most school children move far too little, experts say.

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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. It has me constantly reminding myself to work with human beings, not human behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

PITTSBURGH — Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city’s low-income, high-crime Beechview neighborhood. In suburban public high schools it went from 3.25 to 3.28. “But Then the cycle repeats.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Ifetayo Kitwala, an 11th-grade student at Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore. What do you plan to do after you graduate from high school? I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. I want to be the president.

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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. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception. You’re not just a teacher, but you’re also a human.”.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Adam Salomon at his high school graduation. Salomon’s mother, Karen, says he was not prepared for life after high school. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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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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

MARCH 25, 2019

Because of her work at the university’s Student Social Support R&D Lab , which hunts for low-cost solutions in education, she was curious to calculate just how much bang schools are getting for this two-cent solution to reduce absenteeism. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

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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). Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. Jean-Claude Brizard took over as superintendent of the Rochester City Schools in western New York in January 2008. She is at Ronald D.

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