The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

High School design team members check out ideas written on post-it notes during a brainstorming session. Editor’s note: For more than a year, The Hechinger Report has been spending time in high schools across the U.S. Indeed, communities across the country are talking about how to reimagine high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2020

This year’s high school seniors have lost out on prom, graduations and other highly anticipated events. In recent weeks, Willen has been speaking with seniors and their families to learn more about their decision-making process while keeping a close eye on the schools rapidly changing responses.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Not enough schools are truly integrating technology into instruction, as well as encouraging students to bring their own technology to school. Recently, I made my way to New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ. Lastly, I used Poll Everywhere in my senior seminar the next day and it was a big hit.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 24, 2012

All activities and seminars proved to be appropriate for high school students interested in business and especially beneficial to those preparing to take business-related courses in high school and college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Eighty percent of Americans think online learning after high school should cost less than in-person programs, according to a 2024 survey of 1,705 adults by New America. Big first-year lecture classes subsidize small senior seminars. Bittners confusion about the price is widespread. Graduate students often subsidize undergrads.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Organized through new nonprofits and small startups including the Catherine Project, Night School Bar and Premise, they bring together adults who want to spend their free time talking to strangers about literature and philosophy. Yet the rise of Zoom seminars pokes holes in predictions that these disciplines are in decline.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. . But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2010

As my high school career winds down to only a few short days, I am forced to reflect upon my last 4 years at New Milford High School. Lately I have been asking myself questions such as what did high school really mean to me, what did it do for me, but most importantly, what did I learn?

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It It has nice transitions and everything, but it’s not saying anything.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

The onus is now on schools to ensure theyre purchasing accessible materials and the clock is ticking away on their two-year deadline. Social-Emotional Learning Strategies Don't Work for Every Student. Here's What Does.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hope Reed saw stark disparities in math classes at Blythewood High School about a decade ago. This story also appeared in Post and Courier and The Associated Press At the school, in suburban Columbia, South Carolina, nearly half of students were white. Many of those in the remedial classes came from lower-income families.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

This past Friday an exciting event took place at my high school due to the efforts of Colleen Tambuscio, who is a fantastic Holocaust teacher. Department of Education visited with a group of Polish educators to learn more about how our school teaches the Holocaust and genocide.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

She learned about MAHG in 2018, at a one-day TAH seminar offered in Tulsa on the American Founding. At the end of the seminar, a TAH representative told participants about Ashland’s Master’s program and the possibility of funding MAHG studies through a James Madison Foundation Fellowship in constitutional studies.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. Not only was Mountain View the high school from which she’d graduated; Lindblom was a teacher she admired.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

On a Wednesday morning this December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School is anything but quiet. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day. OXNARD, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

These connections can also be made in course catalogs, on department websites and through student seminars. A Senior Year Seminar can further promote workforce readiness and tie together the career skills gained throughout one’s time on campus. Raise awareness of realistic careers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Kennedy School of Government, Victoria Dzindzichashvili pauses in the Harvard Square subway station and reflects on the decade it took her to get here. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.” I think that connection is what keeps them coming back.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Every student needs some guidance in making that transition from high school to college.”. In English, all students are enrolled in a four-strand program called City Seminar. A primary goal of City Seminar is to introduce students to college-level writing. High school was simpler: “They ask you a question, you answer it.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ninety-minute weekly seminars are a cornerstone of the model. Noelani Davis, math teacher, Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, D.C. Noelani Davis, a math teacher and department chair at Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, D.C., No cookie-cutter seminars for entire teaching staffs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” “Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. After graduating from high school, I let my hair grow out.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. I really did not expect college to be such a strange experience. There were a couple upsides though, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Virginia Forcucci speaks to students in her 10th grade English class at Sussex Tech High School. On a recent Thursday morning, when most of their peers were busy prepping for the day, a dozen teachers and staff at Delaware’s Sussex Tech High School sat down to talk about race. Photo: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

But high school students who earn dual credits at community colleges are actually 16 percent cheaper to educate. That’s because dual-credit courses cost less to administer and high school students need fewer support services from local colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

The two-hour-a-day difference narrowed a bit in higher grades but even by high school, many students received 1.5 Over several months of school closures, the daily difference in hours added up to a lot of instructional time. “One fewer instructional hours every day than others (3 hours vs. 4.5

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

As we reflected on our media literacy journey, it was exciting to see how our initial presentation, Media Literacy in a Post-Truth Era, which we first shared during a 2016 technology seminar for our district, has continued to evolve, with new resources and even a new title: Thinking Critically About the (Fake!!)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Those on a vocational track begin apprenticeships after completing 10th grade, while students hoping to go to university attend academic high school for three additional years. Tim Becker, 20, is doing an IT apprenticeship after completing the university entry exam at his academically oriented high school in Cologne.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

“The thing is,” given its high price and questions about its value, “college might be a scam,” said Gates, an 18-year-old senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School on Chicago’s South Side. He’s considering going to a trade school instead. Donje Gates, a senior at Bogan Computer Technical High School in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

But despite growth in the numbers and sophistication of online options, high school seniors continue to apply for the opportunity to learn with one another on a college campus. Seminar discussions on Zoom, Teams or Google Hangouts can be lively, lectures can be understood, and breakout sessions and team projects can be completed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Young people who are on the autism spectrum are less likely to go to college or find a job after high school than their peers with other disabilities. One study found that only 36 percent participated in any type of postsecondary education, compared to more than two-thirds of all high school graduates.

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