The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

These concerns, coupled with crowding in primary schools — the result of an influx of new immigrants — led to the creation, starting around 1910, of standalone “junior high schools” for seventh through ninth graders. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise.

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Middle School Junior High Elementary School High School 131

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

The notion that middle schools are misaligned with the needs and drives of early adolescents is hardly a new one. Efforts to reimagine education for grades 6 to 8 dates back to the 1960s, when an education professor, William Alexander , called for replacing junior highs with middle schools that would cater to the age group.

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Middle School Elementary School Psychology Junior High 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

By the time Morgigno was in junior high school, the town had become more racially diverse, with a population that was about 11 percent black. That’s no small feat, as housing and schooling are closely tied,” she said. Elizabeth Beers, who graduated from Pearl in 2011, moved her family here recently because of the schools.

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K-12 Junior High Elementary School Sociology 124

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

By the time Catherine graduated Greenville High in 1976, she could already feel the fabric fraying. Her white friends began to slowly and reluctantly peel away to private schools, parochial schools, boarding schools. Greenville has never been the same since Coleman disappeared and the white private schools came.”.

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Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In Pennsylvania, lawyers say, many of the residentials are regulated like private schools, which is to say, hardly at all. a 15-year old in the Western Pennsylvania city of Greenville, hopes to have the chance to graduate from a public school like the one she used to attend. Another foster student, M.S.,

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Education Charter School Public School Private School 110