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Engage Students with Authentic Learning at Home

Digital Promise

When Josh Luukkonen’s school closed due to COVID-19, Luukkonen’s junior high social studies students were studying economics. Luukkonen grabbed his cell phone and drove to the landfill to film a video about the environmental impacts of economic decisions. Opportunities for Authentic Connections are Everywhere.

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Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?

The Hechinger Report

These concerns, coupled with crowding in primary schools — the result of an influx of new immigrants — led to the creation, starting around 1910, of standalone “junior high schools” for seventh through ninth graders. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise. John’s University.

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Advocates hope pandemic shift away from requiring SAT and ACT will help diversity

The Hechinger Report

It also withdrew from the National Merit Scholarship Program, which is based on the preliminary SAT, or PSAT, taken by high school sophomores and juniors. High-scoring students can receive scholarships from the program as well as from participating universities and colleges. “We

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‘We’re stronger than we’ve ever been’: A Mississippi district shows that integrated schools pay off

The Hechinger Report

Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. By the time Morgigno was in junior high school, the town had become more racially diverse, with a population that was about 11 percent black.

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‘I can be mom and teacher’: Schools tackle child care needs to keep staff in classrooms

The Hechinger Report

It’s just so impossible to pay child care with that many kiddos,” said Mountjoy, who works at Parkhill Junior High in Richardson. However, the costs would add up: She was already paying more than $1,200 a month to send one of her kids to day care. So they hesitated. Monroe teaches second grade.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed).

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