The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

High school students tend to dream big. According to the national nonprofit YouthTruth , in 2015 and 2016, over 84 percent of high school students reported wanting to go to college. Amid the pandemic, an unprecedented number of high school grads are putting their college dreams on hold.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

We’ll never forget last year, when survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, became leaders instead of victims, taking their cause all the way to Washington, D.C., The public high school I attended — River Bluff High School in Lexington, South Carolina — has one answer.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Ruiz, who had enrolled at Oxnard College after high school because of its free tuition program, says that transferring to UCLA has been a positive experience so far. She hopes to eventually earn a master’s degree and work at a nonprofit in her community. It got me out of my shell,” Ruiz says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Ensure Everyone Has a Seat and Voice at the Table, Including Students and Teachers Mendon-Upton Regional School District focused on including a wide range of voices in their edtech system development. Their team consisted of a high school student, a teacher, a library media specialist, and the technology team.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Python courses have supported students transitioning into International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) pathways and exist at all three high schools. For instance, in East Irondequoit Central School District , students learn coding vocabulary and algorithms in the second grade and programming in the fifth grade.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

Too often, the older students get, the less schools prioritize SEL. In a middle or high school, it can be difficult to find the time to implement explicit SEL practices when students are changing teachers every period and there’s more emphasis on academics. In part, that’s due to logistical challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

They are far more likely to suffer low self-esteem, they increasingly fall behind in other subjects and they likely won’t graduate from high school. Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade-level by third grade are six times more likely to drop out of high school than their more affluent peers.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They attended Loma Alta Elementary, a racially diverse school in Altadena, Calif., that stood out from many others in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), especially its high schools, which were more racially homogenous. “I Pasadena High School. Pasadena High School.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. A little more than one-third of Americans without a high school education do not use the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

And researchers have reached consensus on the common features found in different types of successful community schools: integrated student supports; expanded learning time and opportunities; family and community engagement; and collaborative leadership and practice. “We

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

Both are emeritus scholars from selective institutions: Steven Volk, an emeritus history professor at Oberlin College, and Beth Benedix, an professor emeritus of world literature, religious studies and community engagement at DePauw University who is also founder and director of The Castle, a nonprofit organization that partners with public schools.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Entrepreneurship is more than a business word according to Jeremiah, a 16-year-old high school student from Long Beach, CA, it’s a way of processing the world around you and feeling empowered to do something about it. Paola and the DIY Girls entered a challenge competition to solve a community problem last year through MIT.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Essentially, every student should have a personalized learning plan which will help to enrich family and community engagement. Pete Just, CTO, Wayne Township School District, Indiana. Kat Kelley, Lead SEL Facilitator & National Board Certified Teacher, Austin High, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“A certain amount of humility is absolutely required in almost any of those situations, and universities haven’t been terribly good at humility in the past,” said Kirk Dombrowski, vice president for research and economic development at UVM, who oversees its new Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships and other community engagement projects. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Anne Henderson, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

That level of change will impact not just our families, but entire communities and generations to follow. senior manager of Family and Community Engagement at Rocketship Public Schools, a nonprofit public charter network of 20 elementary schools serving low-income communities with limited access to excellent schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools. Johnson is the mother of three girls. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

“What we lacked was a transparent way for the community to see how boundaries could change under different scenarios,” said Craven-Howell. “I “It’s a powerful tool for community engagement. But a lot of messaging and communications work has to happen alongside it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. After multiple suspensions, Kemp’s son dropped out of high school during his junior year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother. Cristian is set to graduate from North High School in the spring. In middle school, they take a special language arts block class in Spanish.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Human trafficking, social anxiety, immigration, gentrification, global citizenship: these are just a few of the immersive experiences produced by high school students in 360 Filmmakers Challenge, designed to inspire the next generation of virtual reality creators. Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. The district also created a family and community engagement coordinator position. WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

The plaques provide a “platform to have a conversation both about our history and also the direction that we see ourselves going as an institution,” said Katrina Caldwell, the school’s first vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement, who started the job in January of 2017.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Participating are Dr. Thomas Ralston, Superintendent of Avonworth School District in Pennsylvania, and Colette Coleman of Zinc Learning Labs, an online literacy platform for middle and high school students. Colette Coleman is the Director of Marketing and Community Engagement at Zinc Learning Labs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

“It’s a democracy so it’s hard to say that there shouldn’t be a role for the local neighborhood, but what happens when we need an alternative school? Whose neighborhood are we going to put that school in?” In the end, the board voted to do just that, creating the first large all-charter school district in the country.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Our most recent cohort of fellows included educators across a variety of grades and content areas, including a high school principal, an elementary school paraprofessional, a math and computer science teacher, and a school and community engagement manager, to name a few.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Courtney Cochran, a high school principal, introduces her co-hosts for Arkansas PBS’s new educational programming: teachers Meghan Ables and Joel Lookadoo. Community engagement is a big element that kids are missing during this time, so to have an actual face of a teacher on the TV seemed like a good idea,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

I attended the Jefferson County Public Schools — which encompass Louisville and the county — from first grade to senior year, when I graduated from Atherton High School, located in a mostly white neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This stuff doesn’t happen overnight,” said Amy Carroll-Scott, co-lead of policy and community engagement in Drexel University’s Urban Health Collaborative. Drexel is the lead partner in the grant, which encompasses seven public schools, including one charter school, in a two-square-mile area.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Dave Miller, director of community engagement at the Goldring/Woldenburg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, says peer mediation helps many Jackson middle- and high-school students solve their problems and avoid violence. program is a way of giving back to the community. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Early on, members of the district’s family and community engagement teams knocked on doors to find the missing students, but those visits were suspended in late March due to local health orders. “We’re going to lose students.”. Phone calls to parents and messages on social media went largely unanswered.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

New York City houses the nation’s largest community school initiative, with 317 of its schools working in long-term partnership with public and private community resources. Oakland is close to finalizing its vision of becoming the nation’s first community school district.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

Schools are often a focal point for community involvement: families send children to school, where they’ll learn many of the skills they need to become happy, healthy, successful members of society. That means the majority of the work involved in breaking down barriers to community engagement in schools often falls to educators.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Whether it’s a good idea for most schools to expand their mission and adopt aspects of the community school model depends on one’s view of the purpose of school. Some argue that schools are taking on too many functions and should not attempt to create outposts for outside services.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. But as of October, more than 10,000 students from kindergarten through sixth grade had chosen to remain in virtual school , the most of any district in the state or the Washington, D.C. Sharahn Santana, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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