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After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

The Hechinger Report

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Higgins Middle School in Clarksdale last October.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

She was still feeling wounded the next morning, as she stood by her sister Taravia’s black Honda Civic. I left behind the ‘trying-to-fit-in’ in middle school,” she said. “I Some days, Jarrin, who earned extra money tap-dancing in the French Quarter, arrived at his middle school dead tired.