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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

But perhaps the biggest deviation is that the school has eschewed traditional remedial courses altogether, building that content into its first-year curriculum and giving students whatever extra support they need in the credit-bearing classes. Every student needs some guidance in making that transition from high school to college.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. I think that connection is what keeps them coming back.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It was terrible for me in high school. In high school, I dreaded math class,” she said. Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

At my school, Bard High School Early College Cleveland , students finish the traditional four years of high school in their first two years, and the last two years they are both high school students and college students. Related: Can $10 million build the ideal high school?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. One science high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee is testing it, too. In one undergraduate class, Fishman offers a menu of 1.4 million points. Students need to reach 900,000 to get an A. “You could never earn a good grade just by doing dumb stuff,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school. HATHORNE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

While the Newark Honors College still hews to a relatively traditional approach, the Living-Learning Community is redefining from scratch what it means to be an honors student. After moving with his mother from Jamaica three years ago, he graduated from a 1,600-student public high school in nearby East Orange. Weekly Update.

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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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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go. My name is Susan.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In high school, Cante Skuya Lonehill-Stover, who is Oglala Lakota, decorated her bedroom wall with a photo of her dad waving goodbye to his grandparents from below their porch as he left for college. Then the pandemic hit, throwing up additional obstacles on the high school-to-college path.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

After changing high schools, getting expelled and dropping out, he earned a GED diploma. College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said. Contrary to the perception that campuses are awash in carefree 18-year-olds right out of high school, more than one in five college students have kids of their own.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Photo: Jon Reis for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Western Queens, where the Children’s Lab School is located, had one of the highest COVID death rates in the city, and the worst ratio of school social workers to students in the city, before the pandemic. Across the city, 40 percent of traditional public schools had no full-time social worker, city data shows.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Some students just aren’t going to college straight out of high school. And I didn’t take a lot of that in high school. Kirk: Epstein is dean of the faculty at the small liberal arts college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

In addition to using technology to enhance classes and seminars, colleges can use it more broadly to address traditional problems like student preparation, degree completion and transition to jobs. We have seen rapid change in higher education, and we have all participated in a huge global experiment.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Instead of letting groups form organically, assign clear roles like: Discussion Leader Recorder Timekeeper Presenter “I assign roles to make sure everyone is responsible, but I also give students a chance to own their role and adapt as they go,” says Kati Hash , a high school world geography and civics teacher.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

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