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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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STUDENT VOICE: ‘Then one day a bomb exploded during my geometry class’

The Hechinger Report

That same year, I had the good fortune to be accepted into College Track , an organization that works with first-generation students from low-income communities throughout their high school and college careers, to ensure they earn four-year degrees.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. K–12 educators created a space to “generate and share ideas for promoting anti-racist curricula and practices in Chicago schools.”

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth, Jennifer Young. What we would love for you to do is cover the sidewalk with whatever you learned today, because that’s not being taught in your school and it can be taught in the Square. They also made the link to mass incarceration. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

For example, San Diego high school teacher Don Dumas held an event last year with his students over Memorial Day weekend. Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth event, Jennifer Young. SELECT A SITE, DATE, AND TIME Belton, Texas. Photo by Richard Beaule. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

The Hechinger Report

Teaching real history will not bring children down based on the color of the skin, but will raise them up and inspire them to stand up and not repeat gruesome patterns.” Lizzie Koschnick, student, North Central High School, Indianapolis.

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