The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Related: Reckoning with Mississippi’s ‘segregation academies’ Not surprisingly, in 2022, the Government Accountability Office declared that school segregation continues unabated. The agency reported that even as the nation’s student population has diversified, 43 percent of its schools are segregated, and 18.5 trillion larger.

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We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. She also shared insights from her Law and Public Policy class, where she engaged in mock trials and debates, and from her Psychology class, where she created a memorable baby book project.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio. Researchers say that racial disparities inside schools tend to reflect what’s happening in society as a whole and that income level does not explain the discrepancies. Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio. The school had about 670 students and was 83 percent Black.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. Deteriorating mental health is also a leading theory for school struggles. A study by researchers at the University of Southern California , released Aug.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. Daniel Willingham, psychology professor at the University of Virginia. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

High school Junior Andrew Johnson-getting his dreadlocks cut off by a trainer so he can wrestle in a match. Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 percent of all public school students, but about 39 percent of students suspended from school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. The goal of such resource centers and undocumented-student coordinators is to help tens of thousands of undocumented students stay in school and graduate. There are an estimated 750,000-plus people with DACA status.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. There are institutional measures that we have from the federal government, from the state, from our board of directors. Now a senior at Chestnut Hill College, Erin Crowley changed her major from psychology to accounting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. Eli Clark, high school junior, Austin, Texas. Nearly two months went by.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. Victoria was in my U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Instead, many colleges and universities rely on outdated federal government data about employer needs, continue offering majors whose graduates can’t get work, take years to create new courses in subjects for which businesses have immediate openings , or ignore altogether the question of whether their programs are training students for jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In some cases, colleges and universities are trying to avoid losing enrollment; not surprisingly, students in unstable living environments or who can’t afford food have poorer physical health, symptoms of depression, and psychological stress and are more likely to drop out , research shows. z Development, a private developer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For example, 23 percent of blacks and 18 percent of students with disabilities were suspended from high school during 2011-12 school year, compared with fewer than 7 percent of white students overall. ” has completed the peer-review process and is currently set for publication at The Journal of School Psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. A lot of it has to do with psychology,” said Stuebner. Annual increases in the cost of college long surpassed inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

The California case had a big impact on the state with the largest public school enrollment but was an anomaly nationally. Even as California enacted the ban, IQ tests became central across the country to the relatively young and rapidly expanding field of school psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

In an open letter she read out at a rally last week, New Orleans high school senior Karriem Bennett (justifiably) protested the amount in TOPS financial aid Tulane University told her she’d likely receive next year: a measly $2. You’re already fiscally and psychologically insecure, which decreases your likelihood of graduating.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Sign up for our newsletter. Photo Isaac Carey/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

But some experts say the government needs to do far more to truly address poverty, including strengthening unemployment insurance, raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid leave for families and establishing universal preschool. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. That was too hard to bear.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom, whose administration launched the program, has called it a way “to restore the social contract between government and its citizens,” one “that says if you work hard and dedicate yourself in service to others, you will be rewarded with opportunity.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year. SAN DIEGO — Zaire Wallace looked forward to playing sports in high school. After his second suspension, he enrolled at The Charter School of San Diego, an alternative school serving many students at risk of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. A school turn-around grant program — funded by the federal government and run by the Montana Office of Public Instruction — may be changing that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. The curriculum is developed and coordinated by government officials and staff, but the writing is done largely by committees of practicing teachers according to agreed-upon directives (a broad curriculum revision is currently underway now).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. At every middle and high school in Aurora, the ratio of mental health providers to students is 1:250.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

Hightower credits the district for getting her back on her feet when she was homeless, pregnant and in high school. Failing grades and truancy threatened to keep her from graduating high school. Magdelena Holland holds up a photograph of her adopted daughter, Nora, who was once homeless and failing school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Nobody talks about that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Because schools desegregated so slowly in New Orleans — by one grade each year — Tate’s struggles were shared to some degree by thousands of local black schoolchildren: Hers was the desegregation generation. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board decision. It used to depress me,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Kirk: But then if you say, ‘Yo, we all have to agree that young people need more than a high school degree to get a good job’ — nowadays, everybody at the bar will also not their head in agreement. Since he graduated from high school, Garcia has enrolled in Bunker Hill three times off and on, commuting from his home in nearby Chelsea.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Mercado had wanted to be a teacher ever since she’d spent time in high school working with preschool kids. Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. In high school, she despised the subject. Then she cried. A bill passed by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. percent increase in the number of high school students interested in applying. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. You wanna buy a college education?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

They flung curse words back and forth that Thursday morning in March, lurching through the hallway of Knightdale High School, slamming into a row of lockers and tripping over a trashcan. The officer Tasered Scott once, according to Lawrence Capps, the chief of police in Knightdale who supervises police in the high school.

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