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.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. Related: For teachers who fear math, banishing bad memories can help At Brand’s organization, Made for Math , intensive tutoring based on Zecher’s approach often stands in for a lack of school-based support.

Tutoring 139

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

High School 97

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 97

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Essentially, teacher candidates learned that service-learning with a cultural center can balance inquiry with advocacy as a means to learn civic engagement.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Public Integrity’s analysis also found that students with disabilities have higher rates of homelessness than the rest of their peers in every state except Mississippi, suggesting that a significant share of students who already require additional support attend school uncertain of where they will sleep that night.

Advocacy 88

Advocacy Government Public School High School 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

Elementary School 86

Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 86

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 encouraged his readers to be proud of who they were and to see “Beauty in Black.”

Museum 52

Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. I’m getting directly into interventions, targeted materials, resources, lesson plans, pedagogical skills that are tailored toward the kids I have sitting right in front of me.”.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. The Summit program was designed for high school students and expanded to middle schools.

Charter School 81

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

K-12 109

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Looking back, our high school has crowned a Latina Homecoming Queen, as voted by the student body and has recognized the first Latino Valedictorian. In his first four-year term, he had closed three high schools because of falling enrollment and a budget shortfall he inherited.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Michael Woods doesn’t tell his high school students that he is gay. Michael Woods, a high school teacher in Florida, worries that LGBTQ students will no longer come to him for support. A high school classroom in Seminole County, Florida. This story also appeared in USA Today. “I I enjoy keeping my job.”.

Cultures 24

Cultures Library Elementary School Advocacy 24

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

Private School 142

Private School High School Public School Economics 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Samantha Honani’s son hasn’t completed a school assignment in months. After his high school on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona shut down in March, he finished about three weeks of distance learning via his family’s computer. From the start of the pandemic, BIE school officials waited for guidance from leaders in Washington.

Government 131

Government High School K-12 Public School 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The trio wept as they recalled Siyujas move as a teenager to a private boarding school 150 miles away in Sedona, Arizona, which shed chosen to attend because the federal agency that runs Havasupai Elementary, the only school in her village, provides no options for high school.

Education 103

Education Elementary School Government K-12 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143