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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Is there a better way to rank schools? Related: Do U.S.

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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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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college

The Hechinger Report

It’s also opened jobs for young men from Worcester high schools at grocery stores and at Amazon, FedEx and other delivery companies, said Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor at University Park, nearly two-thirds of whose students are considered economically disadvantaged. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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Measuring diversity without holding schools accountable won’t bring about integration

The Hechinger Report

“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

The district allows student to attend schools outside of their attendance zones as long as space is available, which means students can opt to continue to follow their chosen career pathway at a middle school with corresponding programs. Now, most of the district’s schools have a focus: Students can go from A.J.

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How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions

The Hechinger Report

When she asked an administrator at Mount Pleasant High School about this apparent disparity, she said she was told that the audio engineering course was created for “regular students.”. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.