High School Reform

Experts often urge educators to catch struggling students “before it’s too late,” but high schools are charged with educating all students, regardless of their past. The Hechinger Report is spending two years exploring high schools successful with diverse groups or trying innovative approaches.

The measured achievement gap between the students in this Revere High School English as a Second Language class and their English-speaking peers is likely to balloon with the introduction of the PARCC exam. From left, clockwise, are Mateo López and Nataly Gómez, both from Colombia; Amanda Moreira, from Brazil; and Maria Hernández, from Honduras.

COLUMN: Working in a group might be the best way to help kids meet individual goals, study says

Researchers also say that they found collaboration led to higher grades for black students

Future of Learning

by Jill Barshay – September 24, 2018

Jun 22, 2009 - New York, New York, USA —- Graduates at the 81st Commencement Ceremony for the Bronx High School of Science at Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

OPINION: Asian, black and Latino solidarity should come first

There’s more to student success than hard work and merit

High School Reform

by Roseann Liu – September 5, 2018

Freshmen at St. Louis Park High School, just outside of Minneapolis, take time out of their social studies class for a team-building exercise that is part of the school’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks program.

A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school

Using a holistic approach with students to “catch those coughs before they become pneumonia”

Future of Learning

by Tara García Mathewson – August 30, 2018

Students sue New York City, saying black and Latino athletes have fewer sports opportunities

Many small schools have no sports teams at all

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by Karina Hernandez – August 28, 2018

OPINION: ‘The fact that today’s youth feel ill-prepared or uninformed should set off alarm bells’

Skills that get high school grads ready for the next step

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by Cindy Cisneros – August 9, 2018

GradNation

OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

Pace of progress must double to bring key statistic up to 90 percent by 2020

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by John Bridgeland and Nicole Anderson – August 2, 2018

Northern Cass student Katelyn Stavenes taking part in the Jaguar Academy pilot, a piece of the district’s plan to eliminate grade levels by the fall of 2020.

What’s school without grade levels?

One district’s drive to teach competencies means eliminating age-based classrooms

Future of Learning

by Chris Berdik – July 30, 2018

OPINION: Advice about how to raise the high school graduation rate — from students themselves

Here are 5 things that can help youth succeed

High School Reform

by Dale Erquiaga and John Gomperts – July 23, 2018

Alana Johnson, 18, uses a workbench vise during a construction class at Abraxas Continuation High School, in Poway, California. Johnson enrolled in an all- girls construction class at the school last year and has since completed three advanced mixed-gender construction courses.

Girls-only trade classes are spreading — and upending stereotypes

All-girls shop classes aim to empower girls, but risk running into the crosshairs of Title IX

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by Brenda Iasevoli – July 20, 2018

CAST Tech is designed to feel like a cutting-edge corporate headquarters, the kind of environment in which students hope to eventually work.

Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage and lift graduates into well-paying jobs

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by Bekah McNeel – July 16, 2018

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