The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. Leave this field empty if you're human: It can be difficult for a public university to vie for those candidates against better-funded private schools, Allen said. “If percent were black. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

Psychology 112

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Home of Hope, funded by private donations and fundraising events, spends more than $4,800 a month per family in its program. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Wider problems outside of the school system exacerbate the challenges individual schools face in serving students with disabilities. The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Yet another explanation is a psychological one. Students at Catholic schools are generally much higher performing than students at public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

PITTSBURGH — Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city’s low-income, high-crime Beechview neighborhood. In suburban public high schools it went from 3.25 Then the cycle repeats.

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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. The author, Nienke Rujis, also found no differences on soft skills.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere High School students eating and socializing in the cafeteria. Most days in Nancy Barile’s English course at Revere High School, a visitor might begin to wonder when the real class is going to start. Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5 REVERE, Mass. percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

He says it would have meant a lot to him if the state publicly defended trans students when he was in high school. In elementary and middle school, Knight was one of the smartest people I knew. But though Knight was an extremely successful student, he spent his time in high school terrified. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d dropped out of high school her junior year. Cohen High School, more than half the city’s black adults didn’t have even a high school diploma, let alone a university credential. But even that goal felt unreachable after Metz became pregnant in 1985, her junior year of high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

It’s no secret: today’s high schools aren’t meeting the needs of their students. The more time students spend in school — especially students from low-income backgrounds — the less engaged they are. And getting this wrong in schools is not okay. Michael Crawford. Why should all educators care about entrepreneurship?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. Most parents want their kids to go to school. They want them at school learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Rather, particularly at the high school level, students in the GNETS Program often receive only computer-based instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez speaks at a rally for gun control at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 17, 2018. Related: We need an education commission to take a critical look at private schools.

Psychology 80

Psychology High School Leadership Private School 80