A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

His message centered on the need for increasing rigor and relevancy in schools. This tool helps educators and schools adjust curriculum, instruction, and assessment to create high standards and increase student achievement. Created The Academies@New Milford High School. Expanded our Virtual High School Offerings.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians. I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I have written extensively about many of the successful initiatives that were implemented over the course of my career at New Milford High School. This was also the case when I recollect my days as a science teacher and coach at Watchung Hills Regional High School.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

The building that was once Donora High School has also become a symbol of hope, though, as leaders in the region debate opening a community college campus on the site, which proponents think could be a spark to revive this town, as it would bring jobs, customers for things like a coffee shop and library, and more.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2010

It is with great pride and excitement that I present a guest post on A Principal''s Reflections by a New Milford High School student. Filip was recently featured in the April 2010 edition of Honor Student Magazine. New Milford High School has presented me with more than enough opportunities to develop my leadership skills.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

My high school classmates and I need more help. During the first few weeks of school this fall, we took tests to measure our progress. It lowered my self-esteem and made me feel ashamed for not learning up to the school’s expectations. She emphasized that no student should be left behind in the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

It wasn’t long into Damon Holmes’ tenure as new principal of Malcolm X Shabazz High School this fall that Sharon Cook, an administrator at Shabazz, knew the school and students were going to be okay under the new guy. high schools. high schools? Principal Damon Holmes talks to junior Latifah Hinds.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

It was established by Dr. Jack Wann, who was previously a teacher of English and Humanities at Jeffersonville High School, which he once attended when younger. Several years before, he had established the Franklin Square Players Summer Theatre at the High School. 1 State Ranked, High School Basketball Team.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

It was established by Dr. Jack Wann, who was previously a teacher of English and Humanities at Jeffersonville High School, which he once attended when younger. Several years before, he had established the Franklin Square Players Summer Theatre at the High School. 1 State Ranked, High School Basketball Team.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read a book, blog, or magazine. Hello World magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation (a magazine on computing and digital making for educators by educators). Online communities include: CSforAllTeachers (a virtual community of practice, for all teachers from Pre-K through high school who are interested in teaching CS).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a 21-year-old, I was stirred to publish a piece in the Hartford Courant on the deeper layers behind that unprecedented mass school shooting. It broke again 13 years later after the Sandy Hook shootings, by which time I was leading lockdown drills as a school leader and writing for Principal magazine about the path towards healing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With its members in middle and high school, the mothers who formerly planned activities have taken a back seat. It published a special edition of its 110-year-old youth magazine, newly renamed from Boys’ Life to Scout Life, honoring them.) It’s a place where they can unapologetically be girls and be leaders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2021

She’s been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Rethinking Schools, EdWeek, Learning for Justice Magazine and more. This story about an antiracism curriculum in schools was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

At the forefront is a woman whose face contorts with hate as she hurls slurs at Elizabeth Eckford, who is trying to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on September 4, 1957. It was supposed to be the first day of school for her, and for eight other black students, all of whom had been promised admission to the school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Only 8 percent of surveyed high school seniors could identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil War.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Hechinger Report, in partnership with The Boston Globe Magazine, analyzed a 264-letter sample to get a sense of both sides. OF BERLIN This analysis about “divisive concepts” laws was produced by The Hechinger Report and the Boston Globe Magazine.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Listen to the interview with Sarah Riggs Johnson and Nate Wolkenhauer: Sponsored by Studyo and Scholastic Magazines+ This post was co-written by Nate Wolkenhauer. I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. This isn’t really about math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

In the 1940s, toilet training generally started before children were 18 months old , according to an article in the magazine American Family Physician. Around 60 years later, in the mid-2000s, the same article said parents were generally starting toilet training when a child was 21 to 36 months old.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Starting when he was in middle school, I could have taken a stronger role in overseeing his schoolwork by editing his papers, re-teaching certain subjects and hiring tutors in others. In high school, we could have hired one-on-one tutors to prepare him for standardized tests. I could have checked his online gradebooks daily.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

The nation’s children learn through play until age 7, and then are given guaranteed 15-minute outdoor play breaks every hour of every single school day (regardless of the weather) until high school. Children must feel like their school is a home for them, it belongs to them,” says Happonen.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

The results are mixed: promising for preschool, not so promising for older students in high school. In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. By contrast, there are few Montessori high schools in the United States.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Kearny, New Jersey, native earned 1330 on her SAT and successfully took AP classes in high school. Many received their high school diploma less than a week before the session started and before students really knew what they agreed to, they surrendered their cell phones and were followed when they went to the bathroom during class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

They heard the talk in high school that UGA was a “white school,” and now they are finding out what that means. Black students represent just 7 percent of its student population (or about 2,000 undergrads), in a state where black students are 34 percent of all high school graduates. Then they can get really rude.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. Schools interested in anything besides college still aren’t seen as rigorous. Running a high school like the Google campus can be tricky, though.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Adarsh's coding story What primary hurdles has your organization faced in executing your mission, and what is your team doing to address them?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Seated at folding tables and speaking through face masks, students at this STEM-focused charter high school tallied Covid-19 infection and death rates from one winter week — comparing national and statewide data with the virus’s toll at their school. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And how is that impacting the choices young people are making about what to do after high school? The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” And families across many income brackets are more open to waiting on college or skipping it altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that business magazines have hailed for its entrepreneurial climate. Miramontes graduated from high school with a near-perfect 3.93 That’s where Maria Cantu earns a living cleaning houses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

My reaction was, ‘who in their right mind would take such a terrible job?’ ” she told New York Magazine. The school system did a terrible job.”. Harold was also a visionary who started new specialized high schools, an expanded and unprecedented summer school program and a fellowship for bringing in new teachers from different fields.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Four years later, carrying the memories of missing recess because I couldn’t complete my multiplication table chart fast enough, and being pulled out of classes to attend speech therapy for my lisp, I entered my first year of high school. By then, I had developed a passion for music.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

square feet that College Planning & Management magazine says on-campus residence halls set aside per bed — aren’t a viable option for students with families. Related: Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. Meanwhile, the rooms — smaller than the average 333.3

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

In an industry whose size is measured by the number of beds for rent, the top 25 private owners collectively account for more than 800,000 of them, according to Student Housing Business magazine. Choi says high school friends who went to Purdue encouraged him to rent there instead of living in a dorm.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

But even if fewer than half of American adults are college graduates, earning a bachelor’s degree feels now like a necessity to many young people — because college is the new high school, practically obligatory for anyone who wants to get ahead, or at least not fall behind, in this globalized world. He was 20. “I So does U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

As high school seniors preoccupy themselves with college decisions, graduation parties and summer jobs, some may be grappling with a nagging thought in the back of their minds: Am I smart enough to succeed at the University of X?

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was established by Dr. Jack Wann, who was previously a teacher of English and Humanities at Jeffersonville High School, which he once attended when younger. Several years before, he had established the Franklin Square Players Summer Theatre at the High School. 1 State Ranked, High School Basketball Team.

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