The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
A collection of surveys of teachers and principals, conducted by the research organization RAND, suggests three problems at the poorest middle schools, which are disproportionately populated with Black and Hispanic students. Do it before middle school,” said Goldhaber. For many students, middle school is too late.”
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 30, 2022
It was a Thursday morning in November, a few minutes into Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s eighth grade math class at Northside Middle School just outside Roanoke, a city of roughly 100,000 in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nationwide, students who started middle school during the pandemic lost more ground in math than any other group.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Dobbins asked the class, at Piedmont GLOBAL Academy, a majority-Hispanic middle school in southeastern Dallas. “A A growing number of states and school districts now require students to take career exploration classes in middle school. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Equity is important to us,” he said.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 16, 2021
Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children. The pendulum swings on K-8 versus middle schools. Ashley Park PreK-8 principal Joline Adams shows off the new middle school gym.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 19, 2024
Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. The post OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 3, 2023
BUGS, one of hundreds of “themed” middle schools spread across New York City and the nation, fully embodies the “Green” school concept. Sometimes there will be a name on a school that has nothing to do with what’s happening in the building. You make them the essence of the school.” It’s more like branding.”
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 16, 2020
During my first visit to the high school in August, I spent the entire day visiting classrooms and then providing feedback to the admin team. One, in particular, Charles Carpenter, who taught economics and history, took the feedback pretty hard as we saw a reasonably typical lesson being implemented.
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