Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965. In 1914 he assumed leadership of the school in Belmont that would eventually take his name.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Nonetheless, she was watching.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Then Jarrin met a mentor, Jonny Bartlett, the principal of KIPP Leadership Academy middle school and the varsity baseball coach at the nearby KIPP high school, now Frederick Douglass. Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It Instead, he just operates with quiet leadership.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Black and white students shared school leadership positions and leads in the class plays. When members of the old, stable town leadership began to leave, citing a need for “quality education,” the die was cast.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. Fuhrman is a junior high vice principal; he said three kids at his school attempted suicide and required medical treatment this year. She was recently part of a successful campaign to get the state to set up its own suicide hotline , which required legislative action.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. But in an era of bold, no-nonsense school leadership, the standards plan put Gist on the map as a rising star in education. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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