ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families.

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Cultures Junior High Middle School Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

So Belue started a new policy during the 1972-73 school year: students would have to elect one white student and one black student at large to student government, as well as to the homecoming court. It’s better to learn when you’re in an uncomfortable environment,” said Zada Perry, a ninth-grader at Sumner Hill Junior High.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Board of Education decision.

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Museum Junior High High School American History 91

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

And government oversight is lacking. She spent junior high and most of her freshman year at a mid-sized public school, earning A’s and B’s in algebra, her favorite class, and playing on the volleyball team. Anderson said George Junior and the Philadelphia government butted heads over how to care for these kids.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Along with her determination to re-invent herself, she set lofty academic goals: She wanted to become president of Cohen’s student government and be named class valedictorian with a 4.0 Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It “I left behind the ‘trying-to-fit-in’ in middle school,” she said.

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High School Middle School Junior High History 114

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. As incentive to integrate, the federal government in the ’60s offered emergency dollars to districts whose desegregation plans were approved. One junior high, T.L. Story continues below video.

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Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Both states are rural, offer residents liberal access to guns and prefer state government take a back seat to local authorities, or even better, to individuals. Fuhrman is a junior high vice principal; he said three kids at his school attempted suicide and required medical treatment this year. He said kids need more resources.

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