The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. That’s a big deal. Its almost criminal.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Many schools serving Native American students have been working to strengthen connections with families, who often struggle with higher rates of illness and poverty. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Liz Willen.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Then one of my high school juniors would raise a hand and ask a good question. Next, her father called.

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We fill an entire school here.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Chinle High senior Cooper Burbank shooting hoops with his younger brother. Nachae Nez is a basketball star at the largest high school on the Navajo Nation, 17.5 Native Americans are routinely left out of the national education conversation, and yet they face some of the longest odds in getting through high school and college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. I was a public school teacher in Tyler for over 20 years. …

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the long run, I think this break from academic tasks beyond the classroom will actually keep students more engaged at school. Because I clearly saw the value of not assigning homework elementary level, I had to take a closer look at why I was assigning homework at the high school level. hours every other day.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

School curricula on civics often fall short. Scores on Advanced Placement government tests are consistently among the lowest across all AP offerings. For instance, Florida recently passed a law that effectively prevents third-party voter registration organizations from working in high schools and on college campuses.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

This conversation led to the creation of a Twitter account exclusively for New Milford High School ( @NewMilfordHS ). My students took notice of my affinity for Twitter and during a meeting with members of student government they opened up to me about their thoughts on social media. How do you know?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

But as I’ve helped my daughter, a rising senior in high school, navigate the college search process, I am still struck by both the exorbitant price tags of attending college and the alarming lack of transparency around the value of that education. I’ve spent more than a dozen years at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The problem that parents and students currently face stems from a legal principle known as the state action doctrine , which emphasizes that the federal Constitution primarily regulates government action — not private conduct.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

High school Advanced Placement. Government and Politics curriculum. Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Some are focusing on high-demand disciplines such as technology, health and alternative energy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. This suppression of Black history is going to become a national thing if DeSantis and people who support him gain control of the federal government and the White House.” There’s nothing objectional.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. high school graduation rates surpassing 84 percent and hitting record highs , year after year, it’s easy to forget that there are still pockets of people for whom graduating from high school is still a big challenge.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Bhaumik Patel DAOs are also emerging at traditional higher ed institutions, too.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Stewart, A.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MARCH 3, 2024

In short, it’s a representative government of students that makes decisions about activities, clubs, assemblies, and other school-wide things. It should make all students feel heard and included in a positive school experience. What are the school traditions? What’s the role of a student council advisor?

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. This calls into question the value alternative credentials have for job seekers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite this, our schools are being asked to take on more. Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? Previously, he has worked in public policy and government affairs for both Tesla and Uber.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. 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. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In New Zealand, where math scores on international tests in the past decade have fallen steeply, a new government campaigned on bringing a “back to basics” approach to education. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellphones.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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