The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Reagan Rock, 14, grew up celebrating her Italian heritage. But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. She didn’t know her family had mixed-race heritage.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.

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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

Students gather once a month at my high school for what we call “equity lunch chats” with teachers and administrators. High schools can build student-led spaces like those in our equity lunch chats, where students suggest texts and topics, and history classes like mine can support the mission of making our curriculum more inclusive.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open April 8-April 30.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

And hed struggled to finish high school. He recalls feeling so overwhelmed that he cried on the second day of school. Elijah Gregory had overcome a lot by the time he arrived at North Central Texas College in Flower Mound as a freshman at 19. He had contended with physical health issues, depression and anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

It also got me thinking about my own schooling and how rare it was to personally identify with what I was learning. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

The 18-year-old senior at Heritage High School, in Menifee, California, had just been accepted to her dream school, University of California, San Diego, and wanted to visit that campus and a few others before deciding where to spend the next four years. Photo: Gissel Cardenas. Read all our coverage on Coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2019

It wasn’t until my first day of high school, in history, that a window of understanding was opened for me. I came to love learning about one of my classmates’ Jewish heritage and sharing my Muslim heritage with him. It made me feel that I didn’t want to be Muslim. I didn’t want to be Egyptian.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 23, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School. Coronavirus Chronicles 015 – Jeffco Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. Coronavirus Chronicles 033 – NIST.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 12, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School. Coronavirus Chronicles 015 – Jeffco Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 027 – Marion-Walker Elementary School. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

When it came time for high school, my dad made the decision to move us to the wealthier, whiter community of Bayonne, New Jersey. In my new school, I worried about how I dressed, or that maybe I was too “ghetto” for the people who had more money. This knowledge inspired and motivated me as I finished high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Before the pandemic, Fortier’s school had eliminated some computer science and technology courses due to budget cuts. Correction: This sentence has been updated with the correct version of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s name. But our kids need to apply it in a new, modern, meaningful way.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. Teachers of Color After student teaching on the US continent in a high school, I felt so isolated as the only Asian adult on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

For now, the recent high school graduate is taking some education courses at the local community college. But the collapse of the coal industry here and across Appalachia has made it harder to survive on a high school education. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. My school even now has a dedicated space for prayer during Ramadan.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 10, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School. Coronavirus Chronicles 015 – Jeffco Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. Coronavirus Chronicles 033 – NIST.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

New Mexico’s high school graduation rate is consistently among the lowest in the nation; Albuquerque’s is even lower, at 69 percent in 2022. We want to build up their self esteem, their motivation to be at school.” Making sure the kids know their culture — it’s not easy,” she said. “

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 14, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. Coronavirus Chronicles 038 – International School of Tanganyika. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2023

My parents didn’t have the tools necessary to help a half-Korean girl navigate school and life. Over the course of middle school and high school, I met a few other biracial kids like me. Could I be the teacher that I needed when I was in school? Several female students in the room nodded in agreement at this.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Related: OPINION: Growing up in the South, I had no chance to learn my own heritage and culture Excluding or treating essential components of African American studies as optional is negligent education. We are talking about high school students who are about to apply to college.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

They’re more likely than white students to have graduated from low-performing high schools. ngela Richards recalls receiving little support from the counselor at her small high school near South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation where she grew up. It recently opened a summer institute for indigenous high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

It’s very empowering,” said Cummins, who previously ran Crow language programs in schools in Montana. Meanwhile, some tribal communities have already forged ahead with new school partnerships to reclaim and restore their heritage languages, which could serve as models for the White House effort. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

Kent State Ashtabula is in a rural county near Cleveland, where black and Latino students make up about a third of the local high school. Most residents have a high school diploma, yet only 28 percent have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to Census data. Very few have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” These men, and many others, inspired me to be proud of my multiracial heritage. After graduating from high school, I let my hair grow out.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. By the time they get to high school, students can likely list half a dozen times they’ve created an “All About Me” collage, showing family or cultural backgrounds, as a way for classmates and teachers to get to know one another.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. don’t have an opportunity to learn a new language in school until middle or high school. My high school offered an introductory French course and I was not excited about it. Census Bureau, 78 percent of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

“Education is free, lunch is free, books are free, sanitary napkins are free,’’ Ballani tells parents, urging them to visit this government-run school on the edge of the Thar Desert, where, on a warm day late last spring, 12 teachers were overseeing the education of 260 students from first grade through high school. With over 1.3

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Do they have a better life after high school? We don't know.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“It was kind of cool, kind of scary,” said Ophelia weeks later, while taking bites of barbecue chips at Heritage Kitchen, a restaurant a block away from her family’s apartment. The damage to that school was so extensive that its roughly 430 students were moved into Letcher County Central High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

He’s teamed up with the Cut Bank Education Foundation and Alumni Association to offer $2,000 signing bonuses to new teachers — $4,000 for applicants who graduated from Cut Bank High School. Johnson sees the bonuses as a tool for improving recruitment and retention, both of which are made harder by an unwieldy licensing process.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. years of education, on average, which is the equivalent of a high school diploma plus nearly two and a half years of college. He married a Jewish-American woman of European heritage.

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