The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We

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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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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

For example, two of my sons chose to play the same trumpet that their dad played when he was in high school band. Celebrate Through Song : Link holidays and heritage months with corresponding music. For example, introduce spirituals or gospel for Black History Month , and mariachi or salsa for Hispanic Heritage Month.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Before Arizona expanded eligibility for ESAs last year, proponents of the program argued the median award would cover median tuition at private elementary schools and about three quarters of the median rate at private high schools. Vouchers are at least partly about bailing out financially distressed church schools,” Cowen said.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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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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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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

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

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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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

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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Who gets to construct truth?

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

She makes a concerted effort to encourage Latino students at her high school to take computer science classes. It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. But one of the first obstacles she has to help them overcome is their own self-doubt. “I

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing. I was familiar with his work with the Forgottonia Project at Cuba High School and was eager to help.

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