The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Virginia Forcucci speaks to students in her 10th grade English class at Sussex Tech High School. On a recent Thursday morning, when most of their peers were busy prepping for the day, a dozen teachers and staff at Delaware’s Sussex Tech High School sat down to talk about race. Photo: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

This might require a cultural shift in some cases, but given the soaring cost of tuition, it is necessary for institutions to think about return on investment for students and their parents, not only in intellectual terms but also monetarily. Raise awareness of realistic careers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Every student needs some guidance in making that transition from high school to college.”. In English, all students are enrolled in a four-strand program called City Seminar. From there, Jordan led a discussion that touched on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, student debt, cultural appropriation and white privilege.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. Culture is shaping it.”. It’s a perfect storm of change,” said Dahl, speaking before education reporters at a Feb. Given the right support, teens can develop intrinsic motivation and passions, he said. “That is the wrong way to think.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

“The thing is,” given its high price and questions about its value, “college might be a scam,” said Gates, an 18-year-old senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School on Chicago’s South Side. He’s considering going to a trade school instead. Donje Gates, a senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School in Chicago.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

The new program operates out of the former campus of Sheldon Jackson, a religious boarding school and later a college, both now closed, that were founded to educate Alaska Native students as part of “a deeply assimilationist institution ,” says Yeidikook’áa Dionne Brady-Howard, who is Tlingit and grew up in Sitka.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Other students confront the challenge of having had inadequate high school preparation. It’s mostly not just one obstacle or one incident that makes a student decide to leave school, researchers and educators say. We give students that chance that other schools won’t give them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nayeli Perez, an 18-year-old senior at the Academy at Palumbo, a public magnet high school in central Philadelphia. In Philadelphia and nationwide, many public high schools are scrambling to provide students with even basic information about college after years of belt tightening have drained them of counselors.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. The air conditioning wasn’t working properly, but the heat didn’t seem to bother the teachers, who were absorbed in a math lesson. she asked colleagues. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Those results were published in the January, 2018, issue of Games and Culture. Related: Fitbit for education: Turning school into a data-tracking game. In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. One science high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee is testing it, too. million points.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

After moving with his mother from Jamaica three years ago, he graduated from a 1,600-student public high school in nearby East Orange. Honors College students participate in seminars and service projects and take a freshman colloquium. They’re in a great position in the job market.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. “We Ohio Wesleyan University offers freshmen “first-year Fridays” programs focused on careers, and career planning is also now covered in a mandatory first-year introductory seminar. Many of them have not even given thought to this.

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Advocacy Educational Technology Education Cultures 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. I grew up speaking Spanish from birth, but I didn’t learn how to read and write [in Spanish] until high school and college,” he said. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. I grew up speaking Spanish from birth, but I didn’t learn how to read and write [in Spanish] until high school and college,” he said. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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High School Leadership Public School Charter School 115

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.

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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.

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Tradition High School Cultures Middle School 138

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

high schools each year. The teachers-in-training I work with speak of a “Food Around the World Day,” often an annual occurrence in their own school days. Conversations about food, clothing and language can be the sum total of what they know about just a few cultures. Department of Homeland Security.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” “Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. universities, they often experience culture shock.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. During the second semester of the program, each student takes a seminar structured around a major research project, sometimes with one of the same professors, sometimes not.

Economics 108

Economics History Humanities Critical Thinking 108

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

After changing high schools, getting expelled and dropping out, he earned a GED diploma. Contrary to the perception that campuses are awash in carefree 18-year-olds right out of high school, more than one in five college students have kids of their own. He had his son at 17 and dropped out of high school.

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Tutoring High School Library Research 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Williams’ friend and fellow sophomore James Poirier will take longer than four years to finish because he didn’t take enough Spanish in high school to meet UW’s language requirement — even though he’s majoring in biology. There are also cultural issues, and large bureaucracies that encumber universities themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ And I didn’t take a lot of that in high school.

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Critical Thinking Humanities History Cultures 105

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

The public impact of their Institute reached far beyond the Institute itself: the videos they produced have been viewed more than 35,000 times, in 130 countries, and have become indispensable teaching tools for high school and college teachers.

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Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Carlos Vega, an admissions recruiter from MIT, sets up a table for a college fair at Stone Memorial High School in Crossville, Tennessee. Rural students graduate from high school at a higher rate (90 percent) than their counterparts in cities (82 percent) and suburbs (89 percent). Department of Education.

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High School Political Science Economics Elementary School 117

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Having so many children arrive through the year who are encountering a new language, new culture and new family life can be a tremendous strain. Credit: Tyrone Turner for WAMU.

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