The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Initially, some people at my school expressed concern about whether an AP- level course was the most appropriate choice for a blended learning pilot because of the sheer amount of content to be covered in a year.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

The education black students receive in elementary, middle and high schools may affect their ability to persist in college, says Natasha Warikoo, an expert on race and higher education. Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. “On One more year of college is one less year working. That’s lost income.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2024

David Monaghan, an associate professor of sociology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, has been digging into that question in a series of recent research studies. Since the program was open to all high schools in the city, doing that communication was more difficult than in the case of the other program they studied.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. When she asked an administrator at Mount Pleasant High School about this apparent disparity, she said she was told that the audio engineering course was created for “regular students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I want these kids to have all these soft skills as they get ready to go to high school and to college,” Lane said. Rebecca London, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has studied what happens when educators add break or recess time for middle school students.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. After nearly six years, I am pleased to say that I’ve accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Texas at Arlington in environment and sustainability, housed in the Department Sociology and Anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

During my sophomore year of high school, I experienced something completely unprecedented and, until that year, I hadn’t realized how vital it was to my self-esteem, self-identification and self-growth. I finally had a teacher who looked like me. I finally would see the face of another black woman every day.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. Overall, yes, certifications are good.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re more focused on money,” said Adon, 17, a senior at a public high school here. Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor, University Park Campus School. Stopping education after high school not only limits men’s options; it threatens to further widen socioeconomic and political divides, Brooms said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. These recruitment efforts should begin in high school, and potential candidates and police education should include mentoring by community-assigned police officers. One of us is a retired NYPD detective. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. Many observers categorize such schools as “liberal arts” institutions, and much real and virtual ink has been spilled on the value of a liberal arts degree. for civilians over the age of 25 with only a high school diploma was 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. College took a back seat the moment Izzy B. called the suicide hotline. Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Cascading Lives’ digital toolkit provides teachers with a comprehensive list of teaching materials to bring these conversations about economic inequality and mobility into the high school classroom. Educating our students about economic inequality will help us take a step in that direction.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. This story also appeared in Wired. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

Robin Golden drifted through high school without making much of an effort. On Saturday, Golden, 59, graduated from Morgan State with a bachelor’s degree in applied liberal studies with a concentration in sociology – 41 years after she first enrolled there as a freshman. She earned a 3.8

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Relatively few high school graduates have the education — or the inclination — for the years of college math and physics that engineering requires. And among those who take on those challenges, simply making that single decision does not mean they will wind up in a high-paying STEM career. Daniel Chambliss the Eugene M.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s crunch time for thousands of high school seniors seeking spots at selective U.S. So, too, is a new book by Tufts University sociology professor Natasha Warikoo , “Is Affirmative Action Fair? colleges, an annual ritual that appears to get more competitive every year, inviting hysteria, hair pulling and enormous anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Aaron Pallas is Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Reinstating testing now, as the pandemic continues, is tantamount to saying, “Don’t think about elephants!” The elephant of testing will still be in the room.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

Ithzel Rubio, a high school student, says that if it weren’t for her summer mentor, “I wouldn’t have anyone else to turn to right now.” Up to a third of high school graduates who plan to pursue higher education never do, the U.S. Credit: Ithzel Rubio. Department of Education says.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

High School Graduation. One in six children who can’t read on grade level by third grade fails to graduate from high school on time— four times the rate for children with proficient third-grade reading skills. (24). How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation By Donald J.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. The problem affects high school reform as well. And that’s not even the full story.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Each parent, but especially white parents, should seek to develop a broader, anti-racist understanding of what makes a good school for a child, a community and our deeply divided nation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Sociology and Medicine at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Their recovery and survival, their health, education and well-being, is the latest test of our commitment to equity and justice.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s hard not to conclude this without a joke about where I would rank the new USN&WR rankings among all school rating and ranking schemes. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University. Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A California high school student practices welding during a class on advanced agricultural mechanics. We tell our children they must get high SAT scores, attend selective colleges, get bachelor’s degrees and get high paying jobs to have a successful life. Youth don’t need high SAT scores to attain these goals.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Angie Rawls, choral director at Pearl High School in Mississippi, leads students in a vocal exercise. On the first Wednesday of December, the stage risers were out and the backlights were on as the women’s choir rehearsed in the Pearl High School Performing Arts Center. Photo: Sarah Warnock/The Clarion Ledger.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2020

That’s why lenders to students scrutinize expected career payoffs, said Jeannie Tarkenton, co-founder and CEO of the private student loan company Funding U — not to bankroll only high earners, but to make sure the debt-to-earnings ratio makes sense. He is also trying to encourage greater use of this information in high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2020

My mother, who had only an elementary-level education, raised us on her own and didn’t have any real desire for us to go further in school, to earn any form of higher-education credential. While I was in high school, when she’d leave for work, I would tell her that I was running late for class — but I’d never actually go.

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Sociology High School Education 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The desperate search for substitute teachers has led some states and school districts to lower qualifications for the people entrusted to educate and supervise America’s schoolchildren at a moment when learning losses are already stacking up. This sends the message that it’s OK to stop at high school, and I’m troubled by that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. White, like many adult students, has quality work experience.

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