The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 1, 2025
It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Those more complex ideas also require extended concentration, which is difficult for many middle schoolers. Algebra teacher Rick Riccio demonstrates scientific notation during a class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 30, 2022
It was a Thursday morning in November, a few minutes into Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s eighth grade math class at Northside Middle School just outside Roanoke, a city of roughly 100,000 in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nationwide, students who started middle school during the pandemic lost more ground in math than any other group.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Dobbins asked the class, at Piedmont GLOBAL Academy, a majority-Hispanic middle school in southeastern Dallas. “A A growing number of states and school districts now require students to take career exploration classes in middle school. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Equity is important to us,” he said.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 16, 2021
. — By his own account, Oscar Tendilla was a horrible middle school student, unmotivated and indifferent. I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me. “I I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
A collection of surveys of teachers and principals, conducted by the research organization RAND, suggests three problems at the poorest middle schools, which are disproportionately populated with Black and Hispanic students. Do it before middle school,” said Goldhaber. For many students, middle school is too late.”
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Unfortunately, having a dedicated remote teacher for the upper-grade levels isn't an option in smaller school districts. After listening to some teacher concerns at the middle school, I began to map out a framework that could help teachers manage their time better while in school.
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 7, 2019
To provide more learning opportunities for our students, the Academies @ New Milford High School were launched during my tenure as principal. Think of it as a school within a school. To help build the program, junior academies were created at the middle school to spark interest and function as a feeder pipeline.
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