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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 20, 2019
“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Only 8 percent of surveyed high school seniors could identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil War.
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And how is that impacting the choices young people are making about what to do after high school? The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” And studies show that the majority of the students who graduate from college end up economically much better off than those who don’t go to college.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2017
As chief of Finland’s association of eight national university teacher training schools, he is, in effect, the Master Teacher of Finland, the country which still has, despite many challenges and a recent slide in global test scores, the No. Children must feel like their school is a home for them, it belongs to them,” says Happonen.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2019
The Kearny, New Jersey, native earned 1330 on her SAT and successfully took AP classes in high school. Many received their high school diploma less than a week before the session started and before students really knew what they agreed to, they surrendered their cell phones and were followed when they went to the bathroom during class.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
But even if fewer than half of American adults are college graduates, earning a bachelor’s degree feels now like a necessity to many young people — because college is the new high school, practically obligatory for anyone who wants to get ahead, or at least not fall behind, in this globalized world. He was 20. “I
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that business magazines have hailed for its entrepreneurial climate. Miramontes graduated from high school with a near-perfect 3.93 That’s where Maria Cantu earns a living cleaning houses.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 7, 2018
More than 90 percent of students in each of those schools are classified as economically needy, a figure that rises to 99 percent at four of the schools, according to the Collier school district. In high school, he worked as a tutor at the center. I feel like it really did give me a head start.”.
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