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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2021
In March 2020, the government flew Vásquez, Ventura and their kids all the way to Berks County Residential Center , an immigration detention facility for families just over an hour outside of Philadelphia. (The Soon after, the elementary-aged kids trooped to their new school, Stansbury, and Joaquín started at West Lake STEM Junior High.
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