A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan - Teacher of English at Tenafly Middle School and candidate for New Jersey principal’s certification through NJ EXCEL, currently interning with Principal Eric Sheninger at New Milford High School. The economics are staggering. She is also co-creator of IOCS project.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Havens is still involved in the Prison Mathematics Project, but handed leadership of the program over to Jeffers in October 2023.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2010

Late Thursday afternoon I looked at my Blackberry and saw an email from Filip Piasevloi, the student who wrote the amazing guest post entitled " A Student''s Perspective on Leadership ". Filip has helped to validate the efforts of NMHS staff and students in regard to embracing change in order to create a school culture that fosters success.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Related: The school psychologist pipeline is broken. My high school, North Country Union , is located in the Northeast Kingdom (NEK), the most rural and largest geographic region of Vermont. The area is economically depressed, with the highest unemployment rate in the state and an economy reliant on tourism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Education and education access are directly connected to economic growth. This legislation includes federal funding to support education and skills-based training directly connected to career opportunities and economic success. Smart investments in Education can be both the answer to governmental gridlock and spur economic progress.

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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

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three. What would it look like to change the typical, or what we think of as the conventional high school experience and instead design something that was built for the modern economy?”

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. Toyosi’s exemplary academic performance and leadership qualities were highlighted in the glowing recommendations from her teachers. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Related: The path to a career could start in middle school There’s no national count of the number of themed middle schools, which are less common than themed high schools. But parents whose children attended the school said the arts theme isn’t infused into the core subjects. It’s more like branding.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

For people who have been involved with the justice system as defendants, prioritizing higher education is a necessary safeguard for social and economic success, both during and after incarceration. Americans who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree experience half the unemployment rate of those with high school diplomas alone.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Lusk, the district’s chief of strategic initiatives, said school leaders wanted to ensure that all students were prepared to make informed decisions about their paths in high school and beyond. Equity is important to us,” he said. There are practical reasons to start sooner, too. Students seem to agree.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Getting more bright, low-income students into top schools is a laudable goal toward helping more people rise out of poverty. But a newly published French study of one of that country’s most elite college prep programs for disadvantaged youth concluded that it harmed half the high school students who participated and left them worse off.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. Joel Vargas, Jobs for the Future (JFF).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

The skills being taught here are in high demand. That’s in part because so much effort has been put into encouraging high school graduates to go to college for academic degrees rather than for training in industrial and other trades that many fields like his face worker shortages. It’s a pretty safe bet.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

NEW YORK — At New York City’s Urban Assembly Maker Academy high school in lower Manhattan, two things immediately stand out. Danielle Salzberg, principal, Frank McCourt High School, on mastery-based learning. The school is thriving. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. This may be a missed opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. She finished while helping her son attend school remotely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Consider that: Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up. And then there are other social factors, such as economic precarity, a greater societal willingness to talk about mental health, so-called helicopter parenting, and the opioid epidemic, among many others. “I Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We are seeing economically disadvantaged communities starting to lag in their rate of learning as measured by standardized testing. Leaders holding the power of the purse will need to recognize that the new playing field is still unequal, and that economic disparities among communities will continue to yield different learning outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The context is a statewide conversation about higher education standards for Kentucky high school graduates. Basic skills aren’t enough these days for many/most American high school graduates to succeed in postsecondary and/or ‘get a job and take care of themselves.’ schools opening , Library of Congress.

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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. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. WILMINGTON, Del. But we will have to see.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2016

are not in school or working. Research by Columbia University shows the economic burden of this is not just felt by the youth themselves; society loses out when the potential of these youth is not realized. The remaining time includes service and leadership activities. Over six and a half million 16- to 24-year-olds in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Griggs is a senior at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics high school. Admissions officers at top schools tend to value community service — the sort of activities that low-income students who are determined to help their families and find ways to save for college may not have time for. Fiza Shaikh, high school student.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Make no mistake: All students benefit from having black teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Parents and their students aren’t defining this demand in terms of the critical-thinking and leadership skills that broadly educated individuals gain. For many low-income families, the sticker price of a college education can seem out of reach and discourage even high-achieving high school students from applying to top institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

So every kid in a public high school in Idaho gets a letter. You’re either in everywhere in the state if your GPA is high enough, or you’re into all the open-access institutions, which is every community college plus two public four-years. Jon] Kirk, that’s just one small private college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

We need to earmark funds to hire more advisers because no matter how much we prepare students in high school to succeed academically at the next level, they also need someone trained in the intersection of immigration and education to get them there. Related: OPINION: I’m a college access professional. I only wish more could join me.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Sioux Center High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Davenport West High School. Learned enough English to transition into regular classes in 8th grade, finished all high school coursework by 11th grade, now taking 5 AP classes as a senior. Pleasant Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

They are far more likely to suffer low self-esteem, they increasingly fall behind in other subjects and they likely won’t graduate from high school. Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade-level by third grade are six times more likely to drop out of high school than their more affluent peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. Many of those were among the 116 million American adults with a high school diploma but no college degree. She had what it takes to rise.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. The pandemic’s disproportionate toll on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities, amid daily reminders of ongoing racial injustice, added fuel to this fire.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

A high school student repairs a car in an automotive shop class. Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. billion in economic activity. The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Structural barriers often prevent black high school students from equitably accessing college-prep courses and materials, and that can have cost implications for those who overcome these barriers and go onto college. Like other higher-education sectors, dual-enrollment programs also under-enroll black students.

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