The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. Like many rural Americans, the people here are place-bound, their educational choices constrained by geography as much as by cost. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Some students at Custer County District High School in Miles City, Montana, live 25 miles or more from campus and have spotty internet access. On her ranch far from the high-powered fiberoptic connections of major cities, Traci Glasscock was frustrated. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

We have an oversupply of highly qualified educators in some communities and extreme shortfalls in others — often those that have been hollowed out by decades of policy stagnation, economic disinvestment and white flight. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

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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. They have an economic impact. STARS was started when recruiters from a few elite universities finally started to visit rural high schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Get rid of the societal lies that everyone needs to go to college and everyone must strive to go to an Ivy League school rather than one that is their best fit. I got As in middle school but soon as high school the teaching got muddled. In MBA school it was only used in an economics course. That was it.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

So whether you’re wanting to dive deeper into learning about indigenous Identity with Dr. Brandon Haddock, explore geography through the lens of a zombie apocalypse, dive into economic policy, or attend a wide variety of other breakout sessions with teaching strategies to help you “take it up a notch,” we’ve got something for you.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Those could include major, geography or high school. These can all prove to be factors in certain schools that require a balancing act,” O’Connor said. O’Connor said that gender is just one thing among many looked at by admissions officers. Medley challenged the idea that a gender imbalance on a campus is a bad thing. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Since last school year, I have been advocating on behalf of school children of a top ten, predominantly white, rich public high school. Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

Kirk asks: “Where are the effective high school tech & trade programs in the U.S. He’s a senior at Passaic County Technical Institute, a public high school in New Jersey that offers work-based learning programs in fields ranging from business and applied technology to construction and cosmetology. WAYNE, N.J.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

The Pfeiffer family moved to Piggott in 1913, shortly after Pauline graduated high school. & Arkansas History, Economics, & Geography. Today students can explore the home & writing studio while learning about life in 1930s Arkansas. They later married. The Great Depression and New Deal.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. Peters agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Ben Lara, a senior at Lowell High School, walks his dog before school. Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Amber Phoumyvong, 17, is a Lowell High School senior.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Kaitlyn Barton teaches English at Clarksdale High School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It’s important to recall that before the pandemic, most discussions of economic growth attributed to schools focused on the productivity generated by the skills students gained (or didn’t) from receiving an education. Levin determined that “the net economic benefit to the public is $127,000 per student, 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school. They also get higher scores on the ACT in high school, setting them up to be more competitive in college admissions. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools.

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