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.”
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
I have really been impressed with the choice boards at the high school and how Canvas is being used to set them up. The elementary school has also upped their game as of late. I love how middle school teachers responsible for remote learners have created a virtual station rotation model in Canvas.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2025
Middle schools now have waiting lists for the sport. And at Longfellow Elementary School, students stretched yarn across makeshift looms made out of toilet paper rolls, stitching the arms of an octopus or crafting a snake during knitting club. Each school is essentially left to deal with violations on its own.
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 7, 2019
Recently I observed a great example of this during a coaching visit with Kay’s Creek Elementary School in Farmington, UT. To help build the program, junior academies were created at the middle school to spark interest and function as a feeder pipeline. Olive Middle School in New Jersey.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 10, 2022
While West-MEC provides career training programs to high school students, it also supports elementary school district members through innovative career literacy initiatives. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
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.
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