The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

They — and their families — labor under the widespread assumption that they are prepared for college because they’ve completed high school and attained a certain score on a standardized test. Alleging that low college graduation rates reflect (a lack of) high school preparation eliminates the role of colleges in the equation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. LCC worked with the local school district to launch an evening welding class at Libby High School.

Economics 84

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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. —

High School 82

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2024

A high-quality curriculum creates the foundation for success in math. A curriculum that values culturally responsive education enables teachers both to value the many kinds of experiences that students bring to classrooms and to push them academically while engaging them personally. The right curriculum is important, of course.

High School 115

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Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

My tips implementing hexagonal thinking: Identify the key concepts that need reviewing: Consider the history, culture, economics, and politics of a unit. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Don’t forget to include people, battles, documents, dates etc!

History 195

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

While some progress has been made since then, institutions can still do a better job connecting their educational and economic mobility missions; recent research indicates that college graduates are having a hard time putting their degrees to work. Make coursework-career connections a campuswide priority. see College Scorecard ).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. As a new immigrant in high school, I once wore a Gambian outfit to school: a white embroidered three-piece kaftan with matching pants.

American History 104

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s become a culture war issue, it’s become an existential problem,” Kendall-Taylor says, “and the interesting thing is the way in which that crisis- and urgency-focused narrative really gives no space and has no room for solutions.” Sleep also shows very significant inequalities in American society,” he says. The campaign didn’t land.

Psychology 89

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.

Economics 96

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

BOSTON — The Margarita Muñiz Academy, a public high school in Boston, is best known for its dual language immersion program. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. Music saved my life.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

Economics 122

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. But the collapse of the coal industry here and across Appalachia has made it harder to survive on a high school education.

Economics 131

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

Economics 108

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In addition to long commutes, homesickness and culture shock, many students arrive underprepared in key subjects like math and science. For all of these reasons, despite high school graduation rates similar to those in suburbs and cities, rural college-going rates are much lower.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Adopting a theme like sustainability, the arts, or math and science can cement a middle school’s culture, give coherence to its curricula, and boost student engagement at a time when many students are losing interest in school. You make them the essence of the school.” It’s more like branding.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. Related: OPINION: Career planning in middle school prepares students for better workforce choices.

Economics 87

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040, according to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. There will be a 10 percent drop in the number of high school graduates from 2026 to 2037, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

Economics 139

Economics High School Government Cultures 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. So it makes sense that some teachers who answered the survey want to know how high-performing countries are teaching math, along with what cultural barriers might be in the way. “Are

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement.

Social Justice 137

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

Tradition 133

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour.

Teaching 135

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As these Harvard training sessions took place, the California State Board of Education finally approved a new framework that sets out to make math more culturally responsive and inquiry-based. In an early morning class, bleary-eyed and still vibrating from coffee, the instructors met with high school-aged students. The solution?

Social Science 145

Social Science Tradition High School Economics 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most? The students.

Civic Engagement 104

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. There’s a lot to like about digital books.

Economics 143

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

Diaz is part of the first crop of high school students in a new pilot program offered by the state of California in partnership with the Child Mind Institute. Called the Youth Mental Health Academy , it gives Los Angeles high schoolers from marginalized backgrounds a chance to explore careers in mental health. “And

Psychology 98

Psychology Project-Based Learning Cultures Economics 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

The research projects, by high schoolers at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, commonly known as the Met High School, or more simply as “the Met,” involved much more than a typical term paper. How can the Providence public schools improve education for high school ESL/ELL Latinx students?” “How

Research 140

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In high school, Cante Skuya Lonehill-Stover, who is Oglala Lakota, decorated her bedroom wall with a photo of her dad waving goodbye to his grandparents from below their porch as he left for college. Then the pandemic hit, throwing up additional obstacles on the high school-to-college path. Cante just walked away.

Tradition 128

Tradition Cultures High School Middle School 128

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. don’t have an opportunity to learn a new language in school until middle or high school. My high school offered an introductory French course and I was not excited about it. Census Bureau, 78 percent of the U.S.

K-12 110

K-12 Education Heritage Middle School 110

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.’” on March 21, 2021.

Ancestry 133

Ancestry K-12 Education Geography 133

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students. If we want more equitable outcomes for our students and their families, we must prioritize providing the computer science literacy skills that jobs with high earning potential demand.

K-12 142

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

This year, my senior year in high school, changed things. There is so much that goes into the college admissions process that we can’t control, but we can change the narrative of the culture surrounding it. I even wound up on the news. College admission was always on my mind.

Tutoring 87

Tutoring High School Cultures Education 87

ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain about Latino culture. There’s a belief in Latino culture that we should be grateful for whatever our boss is willing to give us and never ask for more, no matter how bad things get. Read the first part here and the second part here.

EdTech 98

EdTech Education Cultures Economics 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. The 2020-21 school year was Lane’s first at the predominantly Black high school on the outskirts of North Minneapolis that she chooses not to name.

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K-12 Middle School Cultures High School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Social studies teachers can help students explore data about people, places, events and cultures, she said, while English teachers might have their students identify and count words or phrases that help create a particular mood in a piece of writing. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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K-12 Social Studies Lesson Plan History 108

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

When I was 6 years old, I started studying in school. I continued my school and course lessons until our economic situation deteriorated and I could not study English anymore. I got four certificates of appreciation from different departments, one of which was from a cultural community.

Tutoring 117

Tutoring World History Humanities Economics 117