ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. 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.

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JUNE 11, 2017

There is a great deal of research and evidence out there that pretty much debunks the claims of many in the world of education reform that accountability systems based solely on student achievement data have any merit. No, this is not a post about value-added evaluation practices. I believe that ship has sailed. learning.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 24, 2024

percent or a little more than 1 million people from the previous year, according to the most recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It would also help colleges, whose leaders are worried about the declining number of 18-year-olds who will graduate from high school starting in 2025.

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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

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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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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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. For some researchers, California misstepped. It’s a phenomenon researchers are painfully aware of.

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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

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

JUNE 9, 2024

The career moves that are open to aspiring women leaders often propel them toward a very real glass cliff — leadership roles in which the risk of failure is high. Of respondents who had been principals, fewer than 20 percent served in a high school. The glass cliff for women is real, but it is not insurmountable.

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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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MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Grossman, an economist at Princeton University and MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, who has studied this research literature. “My Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

Research repeatedly indicates that schools and students with access to high quality music education perform better in a multitude of academic, social and emotional ways. Johnathan Vest, director of choral activities at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help.

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JULY 13, 2021

Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things.

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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. Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” “Non-submitters” Further, rates varied by school type.

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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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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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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 13, 2024

When Szoo excelled at math in high school, she got her share of ridicule, too — though it was slightly more subtle. “I The number of college-educated women in the workforce has now overtaken the number of college-educated men, according to the Pew Research Center. I was told a lot, ‘You’re smart for a girl,’ ” she said. “I

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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MAY 10, 2021

But researchers are finding that the test-optional policy isn’t substantially raising the share of low-income students or students of color at colleges that have tried it. Well-to-do families can pay for extras like sports and music lessons and high schools in wealthier neighborhoods are more likely to offer advanced coursework.

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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

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. The program brings high school students to the campus for half a day, for a tour of the education school and to meet with officials.

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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. I finally had a teacher who looked like me. I finally would see the face of another black woman every day.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

This story also appeared in USA Today He also knew that the high school he attended on Chicago’s South Side offered few of the advantages that wealthier kids got. When he made it to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the shortcomings of his high school were even more evident. It’s just the way society is.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom. But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. During high school, he took dual enrollment courses at the two-year College of Marin. Davis Jenkins, Community College Research Center.

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