The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

Ithzel Rubio, a high school student, says that if it weren’t for her summer mentor, “I wouldn’t have anyone else to turn to right now.” Up to a third of high school graduates who plan to pursue higher education never do, the U.S. Credit: Ithzel Rubio. Department of Education says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Holloman, says the university’s “newness and brashness” made it easier to create a culture supportive of black students. So the aggressive outreach from Georgia State’s advisors can be a revelation, evidence that someone at the school cares about them. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark.

Sociology 112

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Alondra Piña Mota remembers being too embarrassed to talk to her high school teachers or college counselors about how her family’s reluctance to borrow money might prevent her from going to college. One of his memories of school: “I was always raising my hand, waiting for them to call on me.”. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Sociology 112

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different.

Education 20

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture,” she said. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”.

Education 143

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

Social Justice 127

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

“In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. And so on… .

Social Studies 76

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Criminal justice. Philosophy.

Education 131

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”.

Sociology 125

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I Most enlisted veterans, on the other hand, have been out of an academic setting for years and many didn’t have the grades, test scores or desire to apply to a top university when they were in high school. She carried a 4.0

Political Science 108

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

By her senior year of high school, she had taken every Advanced Placement course the school offered. When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. But Brown liked numbers. She had a 4.0

Economics 106

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2019

He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

To motivate students to engage with those different from them, school leaders are looking at everything from the way they fund activity groups to the size of party venues to the physical layout of the campus. Cultural change always lags behind demographic change,” said Kennedy, who is now vice president of student development.

Sociology 47

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Black student enrollment in colleges and universities has been dropping steadily, while many flagship universities lag way behind when it comes to enrolling their state’s Black and Hispanic high school graduates. Just 2 percent were Black. Just 2 percent were Black.

Sociology 102

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

Kennedy High School in Paterson, New Jersey, my parents gave me two options: go to college or get a job. Although I was deeply unmotivated, I enrolled in Passaic County College where I excelled in English, psychology and sociology and did well in math and science. Boot Camp was a culture shock. I did well, again.

Sociology 66

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Twenty of the 21 have either graduated or remain in school, and several are pursuing advanced degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. 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.’ Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

Humanities 89

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

I am my family’s last best hope for financial security,” said Santos, who designed his own clothing line in high school and also started a nonprofit matching minority students in the Boston area with mentors. Related: Ivy-League Degree: Now what? “I Santos told his mother he thought “it would be really boring.”. Like a fantasy’.

Sociology 107

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Match Charter High in Boston, where students are scrambling to meet college deadlines while balancing classes, sports and multiple Advanced Placement courses. This story is second in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School , a college preparatory charter public school in Boston. Photo: Kim Palmer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

It’s a business major aimed at turning out what it says will be future corporate leaders, for which students also are required to take philosophy, language, culture and other humanities courses toward an eventual degree in business. “We More than three-quarters favor applicants who understand other cultures. How will you find a job?’”.

Humanities 100

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Wells-Barnett, is increasingly becoming a household name and being taught more commonly in high school, especially in Chicago, where I’m from. Muhammad: Yeah. So I’m hoping that Ida B.

Primary Sources 98

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

A culture built upon a false racial hierarchy can only be maintained through lies, force and duplicity — all of which are on full display in the asinine attempts to ban critical race theory. I learned about critical race theory in grad school along with plenty of other sociological concepts that have since faded away.

Sociology 145

Sociology Elementary School Cultures History 145

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! Don’t miss upcoming sessions — register now. Thanks, T. Muhammad: Yeah.

Primary Sources 52

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

LaTavia BigBack was 17, a high school junior, when she and her friends were in a car crash. Some educators still believe that having pregnant or parenting teens in school or providing services like nurseries will encourage other students to get pregnant. BigBack said no; she thought maybe she had a concussion.

High School 140

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