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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Leaders who have deeper and more lasting impact provide more comprehensive leadership than focusing just on higher standards. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. The change leader.

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OPINION: When wealthy parents hold sway in public schools

The Hechinger Report

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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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools.

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A new kind of high school diploma trades chemistry for carpentry

The Hechinger Report

As of 2023, there were 405 students for every counselor in Alabamas public schools, well over the recommended ratio of 250 to 1. Mackey said the state added career coaches in recent years to ease the counseling workload, but in many districts there is just a single coach, who rotates among schools.

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Addressing Challenges in Equity, Leadership, and Innovation

Digital Promise

Leaders from the League of Innovative Schools, a network of the country’s most forward-thinking educators, recently convened in Mentor, Ohio, for the League’s Spring 2017 meeting hosted by Mentor Public Schools. These factors influence the rate, path, and process of school district innovation.

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STUDENT VOICE: I’m thriving in my dual-enrollment program, but it could be a whole lot better

The Hechinger Report

This story about dual enrollment was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechingers weekly newsletter.

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OPINION: Our kids need extra help. This is no time to slash federal funding for schools

The Hechinger Report

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. Which services should we cut?