The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Marianne Stewart teaches eighth grade English at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. The strategies focus on what research has shown to be the thought processes of good readers. Marianne Stewart, eight-grade English teacher at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

The school has been held up as a national model by researchers at MIT and the University of Virginia, which is studying how to better align middle school with the developmental needs of adolescents. Yet many schools are doing the opposite of what the research recommends. Peter Gray, Boston College.

Middle School 143

Middle School Elementary School Psychology Junior High 143

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

Eliminating the test requirement can raise the numbers of low-income and first-generation students and those from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups without affecting graduation rates, according to research conducted in collaboration with the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC.

Junior High 127

Junior High Tutoring High School Economics 127

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2024

Child care for school employees has trickle-down benefits for students, said Van-Kim Lin, an early childhood development researcher at nonprofit Child Trends. It’s just so impossible to pay child care with that many kiddos,” said Mountjoy, who works at Parkhill Junior High in Richardson. So they hesitated.

Junior High 114

Junior High Teaching Education Economics 114

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In my current role as a special education teacher at a junior high school in New Orleans, I teach 24 neurodivergent students in three classes across two grades, and I’m a case manager for 14 students. When I got home, I researched books that might interest Destiny.

Teaching 128

Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 128

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the 2016-17 school year, 44 percent of black students in Mississippi attended a public school considered “intensely segregated,” making the state the 10th most segregated in the nation, according to research compiled by the UCLA Civil Rights Project. Tyler Mckenzie, 18, is a senior at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi.

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K-12 Junior High Elementary School Sociology 117

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Researchers have found that students in diverse schools can become less prejudiced and more empathetic, and may work harder. 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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Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

“Teachers can do only so much, so paraprofessionals are the bridge for students to receive the individualized services they need,” said Ritu Chopra, executive director of the Paraprofessional Resource and Research Center at the University of Colorado Denver. In high school, another aide helped her prepare for the ACT.

K-12 145

K-12 Junior High High School Psychology 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

More than one in five college students are parents , according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and some 42 percent of them attend community colleges. Such students are also the most likely to change their plans, recent research shows. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed).

Economics 117

Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 117

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. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

. — Back when he still lived with his family, when school was across the street from his home in West Philadelphia, Johnathan Hamilton used to plow through reading assignments and research religious questions online. He stumbled over fractions — math was always a struggle — but started getting into philosophy as an early teen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Meanwhile, years of research underscore what the Coleman Report pointed to 50 years ago, a real correlation between segregation and an educational achievement gap along lines of class and race. Greenville caught the attention of the Coleman Report researchers in 1965 when its school board defied Mississippi’s segregationist governor, Paul T.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

And research shows teaching people to intervene does lower suicide rates. “If Research shows that training teachers and staff helps, but it has limitations. Morris explained that research now suggests the opposite: Open and frank conversations diffuse the situation and help people feel less alone. The goal is to offer hope.

Education 131

Education K-12 High School Advocacy 131

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. She made it as an eighth-grader at Tulsa’s Nimitz Junior High School for a project researching career options. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 107