The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This year marks a new record for high school graduation rates across our country, a report from the White House shows. This is an important positive trend, and now we have an opportunity to build on this success to ensure high school graduates are also academically prepared for post-secondary education beyond high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When she was ready to return to school, she didn’t want to sit in sophomore-year classes. My grades were perfect.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Jessica Ramos, a 17-year-old senior at Skyline High School in Oakland, California, sits outside the Oakland Town Hall with her dog Lucky. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Building STEM Literacy at a Large Florida School District Broward County Public Schools is the sixth-largest school district in the United States, serving over 250,000 students across 326 schools and education centers in the Fort Lauderdale area. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

One Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Florida’s Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension. Related: They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Now, having taught social studies for two years at Oakcrest School in Vienna, Virginiaan independent girls school in the Catholic traditionshe knew what she didnt know. After a busy career in law, he had reduced his practice and taken up teaching history at the high school Boles graduated from in Pasadena, California.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2019

The goal is to give new students a chance to explore their future school in advance, in a low-stress environment. Last year, a student intern created a similar tour of the town’s high school, and it was so popular that Liberman wants one for every school. Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. In the early 2000s, she saw a grant from the National Science Foundation as a possible solution for Milwaukee’s public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said. Schools vary, but in schools where teachers have more voice, there is better retention.” Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. Maybe you can do that in social studies. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Working in partnership with public school districts and charter schools, Malliron Hodge, director of community collaboration and design for Digital Promise, convened educators of color for seven regional Design Studios. Michael the Archangel High School (Louisiana). I came from a very poor upbringing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. For Katie Cryan Leary, the principal of the newly opened Magnolia Elementary in Seattle Public Schools, creating an antiracist, anti-bias school can be a messy, uncomfortable journey.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The type of text analysis he guides his students through is far more common in colleges and graduate-school programs, but the coding that makes it possible is an increasingly popular skill to teach children. Fifteen states now require all high schools to offer computer science courses. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High. Before, schools were just academic. At 7 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. She is a high school senior, a Queens native, and a K-drama fan.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. This story was produced by Arkansas Public Media and is reprinted with permission. Teaching was not my initial goal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction. Educators have felt pressure to cut time for science, social studies and the arts in order to carve out more time for reading and math, the two subjects that are tested annually by every state and by which schools are judged.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Louis Park High School, just outside of Minneapolis, take time out of their social studies class for a team-building exercise that is part of the school’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks program. Louis Park High School. Freshmen at St. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

From work to school to home, digital technology is everywhere. Public school students’ computer use must move beyond consuming information and performing routine tasks like reading, writing and presenting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 million public school students. Of those, 1 in 5 were out-of-school suspensions. Most of those suspensions happened at Mohave High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. He started his career teaching high school social studies for 14 years. At one point he directed a teacher-education program that prepared returning Peace Corp volunteers to teach in inner-city schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. Our public schools can be a bastion of democracy and serve as a breeding ground of civic and political excitement and possibility. Where did we go wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. This is about building relationships, and social-emotional learning.”. Stephanie Hinton, director of early childhood in Oklahoma City Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. What should schools do? Photo: Carl Juste/TNS via ZUMA Wire.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Not only was Mountain View the high school from which she’d graduated; Lindblom was a teacher she admired. Katherine Thrailkill at Summer 2024 MAHG.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a case in point, I recently interviewed Danny Cage, a high school student and organizer for the Sunrise Movement in Portland, Oregon. This spring, he and fellow student leaders helped get Portland Public Schools to adopt one of the most ambitious climate policies in the nation.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

State legislatures these days tthjnkbthat they should pass laws telling teachers how to teach reading and what to teach in social studies. But we probably should know that when it comes to Republicans, caring about the needs of others might be tantamount to socialism. That’s right.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Wess Wheeler (L), an independent learning opportunity student at Randolph Union High School, and Miles Hooper, manager and co-owner of Ayers Brook Goat Dairy farm, among the goats. Just 10 years ago, he was kicked out of his Vermont public school and finished at an alternative high school in Maine.

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