The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. MESA, Ariz.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965.

Education 59

Education American History Junior High History 59

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Some big-city districts adopted busing plans , but in the rural South, mostly districts desegregated by closing and consolidating schools. 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

The district’s first school board meeting on August 3, 1970, had 19 agenda items, including determining the district’s sick leave policy and finding furniture for the elementary school. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.”

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Related: LA’s school counselors strike back. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.

Charter School 108

Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 108