The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Millions of students are leaving high school unprepared for college-level coursework. At the same time, millions of students are reporting that high school is too easy. Most high schools today will look familiar even to folks like me who are losing (or just starting to lose) the battle with gray hair.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

When a Pennsylvania school board in 2020 pulled over 300 books and materials from school bookshelves, a student group at the high school, the Panther Anti-Racist Union, took note. Among these is Everyday Advocacy , a volunteer committee of educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

public school students have been diagnosed with a disability and receive services, according to the most recent data, so this debate over special education placement affects not only the academic prospects of students with disabilities but also the cost and structure of the whole educational system. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S.

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The following is a guest post by Michael Warren , a Social Studies Teacher at Hasbrouck Heights High School in NJ. Image credit: [link] Recently, I had the opportunity to visit New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ and spent a couple of hours meeting and touring the school with Principal Eric Sheninger.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

High School design team members check out ideas written on post-it notes during a brainstorming session. Editor’s note: For more than a year, The Hechinger Report has been spending time in high schools across the U.S. Secretary of Education John B. Secretary of Education John B. high schools?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

When Johnathan settles inside momentarily, the women, both teachers at Johnathan’s high school, ask Cannon the question that’s brought them there: “What are your hopes and dreams for Johnathan?”. Cannon doesn’t hesitate: She wants him to finish high school, get a job and maybe go to college. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. A similar pattern seemed to be emerging among the state’s high school students, who are required to pass a series of exams, called Regents, to earn a diploma. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

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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. The Education Department did not respond to a request for comment about Cardona’s tweet.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Through All City Council, Oakland students have a louder voice in local education policy than students in many cities, but young people say it’s not enough.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Filing of college financial aid forms by high school seniors is down 9 percent compared with the same period a year ago. High school seniors are filling out more financial aid forms than they were in the midst of the pandemic autumn of 2020, when there were record high drops in completions. But as of Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015. Let’s use this current round of CRDC data to spur action to give our students better choices than the one my students faced.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. After 40 years of teaching English to high school students in New Jersey, Olga Polites knows how critical media literacy education is in today’s digital age.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Certificates are the fastest-growing kind of credential in higher education, touted as solutions for the growing number of people who want workforce training fast and don’t have time for a degree. A certain high ratio of student loan debt to earnings would also trigger such a cutoff. Some certificate programs pay off.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

About 80 percent of the nearly 600 students in the school district qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty. English teacher Rebecca McElhannon goes over a short story with her ninth grade class at Decatur High School in Arkansas. The same was true in similar districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

“Please ignore the airplane,” she recalled telling her colleagues as her younger son climbed into her lap, miniature jet plane held high. We were our own experts,” said Kelley, a principal consultant to the California State Assembly Committee on Education. Hers is a distinctly powerful position. Credit: Tanya Lieberman.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

If educational leaders fully grasp the profound impact Black principals have on the Black teacher pipeline, they’ll push to increase the share of Black principals — who, for decades, have called for greater attention to Black teacher recruitment and retention.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

“The teachers and the teaching practices that can increase test scores often are not the same as those that improve student-reported engagement,” said David Blazar, one of the study’s co-authors and an associate professor of education policy at the University of Maryland College Park.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Before Arizona expanded eligibility for ESAs last year, proponents of the program argued the median award would cover median tuition at private elementary schools and about three quarters of the median rate at private high schools. That concerns Joshua Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

The tool that helped identify the gaps in the first place is called the Knowledge Map , developed at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy based on the value of content knowledge. In the United States, schools tend to focus on helping students develop concrete skills, like finding the main idea in a paragraph.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The text of the bill contains the line, “in 2015, a typical American student took 112 mandated standardized tests across the length of their elementary and secondary education years.” Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Recent NAEP scores showed startling declines that could amount to as many as 22 weeks of learning loss, according to Thomas Kane, faculty director of Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research. It’s time we introduce them at the high school level.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Related: High-paying jobs go begging while high school grads line up for bachelor’s degrees. But the trend is also exposing how many high school graduates almost reflexively go to college without entirely knowing why, pushed by parents and counselors, only to be disappointed with the way things turn out — and then start over.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. But this strategy had a fundamental error.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Similarly, embracing a more diverse and inclusive curriculum that highlights the history and culture of Black people in the United States may not just increase in-school engagement among Black youth — it may also challenge the latent cultural assumptions held by white teachers in classrooms teaching these Black youth.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent fewer public school students a decade from now. I calculated a gradual decline in enrollment from projections made by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), a nonprofit agency among 15 states.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The National Education Policy Center, for example, found that the high school graduation rate last year was only 53 percent for virtual charters, which enroll the majority of online students, and 62 percent for district-run virtual schools. The research paints a grim picture.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

remember as a young reporter for The State newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia, driving with a colleague in 1999 to the old Bishopville High School in rural Lee County. The school was still in operation, despite having been condemned. But the school recently saw its state report card rating tumble.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National Partnership for Student Success , Harvard’s EdRedesign Lab and the Brick Education Network encourage approaches that focus on more personalized routes to student academic and broader success by creating new navigator and coach roles to connect students and families to opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Ten percent of high school seniors planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going. About half say they will enroll at a community college. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. education policy? Where did we go wrong?

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