The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Tracking also limited my access to advanced high school courses such as statistics and calculus that would have further developed my math skills and opened up numerous postsecondary opportunities. Sadly, I was learning to hate math, despite my early love for it. The tracked classes did, however, improve my social skills and popularity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We Walsh, Boston mayor.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

They — and their families — labor under the widespread assumption that they are prepared for college because they’ve completed high school and attained a certain score on a standardized test. Alleging that low college graduation rates reflect (a lack of) high school preparation eliminates the role of colleges in the equation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

But instead of offering out-sized athletic scholarships or perks to potential out-of-state students, the university is doubling down on a bid for students who are often ignored — low-income, urban, public high school graduates with mediocre test scores. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it.

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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. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

I absolutely hated math in high school. It didn’t apply to anything I needed at the moment,” said Azmane, 20, who failed several semesters of math early in high school but last year got a B in the Linn-Benton course. “We At the level of individual schools, lack of money and time constrain the spread of applied math.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals. I can even work ahead of schedule if I have extra time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. Alternative schools can vary widely, and some have been criticized for warehousing difficult cases and using harsh discipline.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. In an early morning class, bleary-eyed and still vibrating from coffee, the instructors met with high school-aged students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

WASHINGTON – Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes, and food. charter school may be a front-runner in providing financial education, but in recent years, many others have followed suit. The Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For all of these reasons, despite high school graduation rates similar to those in suburbs and cities, rural college-going rates are much lower. For high schoolers there dreaming of a college education, the nearest option, Dawson Community College , is about 70 miles away.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Too many American high schoolers are pushed into college preparatory tracks that limit their career choices or ultimately lead to crippling student loan debt. But students aren’t the only ones who lose out from a one-size-fits-all high school approach. So does the U.S. So does the U.S. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

BOSTON — The Margarita Muñiz Academy, a public high school in Boston, is best known for its dual language immersion program. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. Music saved my life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Programs designed with these students in mind give them training so that they have a shot to compete for STEM jobs with salaries that can lead to economic and social mobility. Both the Marcy Lab School and Hack the Hood are nonprofits funded by donations from philanthropic groups.)

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

It’s no surprise that by high school, nearly 75% of students report negative feelings – tired, stressed, and bored– about school (Moeller, Brackett, Ivcevic & White, 2020). The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report highlights the rapidly changing landscape of the workforce. Moeller, J., Brackett, M.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that: Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up. Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking. The birth rate among 15-to-19 year olds is at a record low.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

The adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates. Beginning with the class of 2020, all Chicago Public School students who meet traditional academic requirements necessary to graduate must also present a post-graduation plan before they can cross the stage to receive their diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. Related: OPINION: Career planning in middle school prepares students for better workforce choices.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2023

Instruction at WGU discards key elements found in traditional colleges, with no physical classrooms and no fixed course schedule. Some traditional professors have opposed the model as too great a departure from the classic liberal arts college. WGU offers us a vision of the university without intellectuals,” wrote Johann N.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. 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.

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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

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

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. Those on a vocational track begin apprenticeships after completing 10th grade, while students hoping to go to university attend academic high school for three additional years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In high school, Cante Skuya Lonehill-Stover, who is Oglala Lakota, decorated her bedroom wall with a photo of her dad waving goodbye to his grandparents from below their porch as he left for college. Then the pandemic hit, throwing up additional obstacles on the high school-to-college path.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

He calls today’s high school and college students and other members of Gen Z the “solidarity generation,” because of their skills in organizing on social media and interest in working across traditional partisan divides on issues like gun control, environmental protection and racial justice. That's amazing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up. Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking. The birth rate among 15-to-19 year olds is at a record low.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go. My name is Susan.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They attended Loma Alta Elementary, a racially diverse school in Altadena, Calif., that stood out from many others in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), especially its high schools, which were more racially homogenous. “I Pasadena High School. Pasadena High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. While the closures are often unavoidable — many districts close schools due to low enrollments — academic achievement is increasingly a factor. Related: School closings: A solution in need of a solution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Native America Calling · 07-09-21 High school during COVID-19. Jake, then a junior at Newcomb High School in Newcomb, New Mexico, was a good student, but Curley worried because the college-level class was online. Prior to the pandemic Curley estimated that up to 40 percent of the school’s graduates enrolled in college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. And I was terrified to go to school every day. I played in ensembles.

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