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Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

The above paragraph sets Quest Junior High School apart from many other, if not all, schools across the country and the world. This is yet another testament to the culture of learning that has been established. The rest is now history. It starts at the top with leadership.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.))

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

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The Boston ‘busing crisis’ was never about busing

Zinn Education Project

A fuller history of Boston’s court-ordered desegregation began decades before Garrity’s decision. And you went to one junior high school and she went to another junior high school. … 12, 1974, provoked some of the ugliest anti-desegregation demonstrations in the history of the civil rights movement.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

A spokesperson for the Laramie County School District #1 could only find records of two students who died by suicide at East High school while Brown was enrolled there.). Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach.

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