Elliot Washor, Author at The Hechinger Report

Ninth grade students organize nuts and bolts the day after their end-of-the-year showcase in which they flew their school-made drones for parents and visitors.

Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, High School Reform, Higher Education, News

Are we blaming high school when college needs a reality check?

by Elliot Washor and Chris Jackson August 20, 2015March 30, 2020

While our nation has been caught up in the rhetoric of college-readiness and whether graduating high school students are truly “college-ready,” a counter-narrative seems to have been lost — or worse — never raised in the first place: Are our colleges student-ready? We can point to any number of examples of the college-readiness narrative in […]