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. See all our Special Reports

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

High School Reform

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

High School Reform

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

Map to the Middle Class

The story of the future of work in America is one of deepening economic polarization. Good jobs are disappearing for people with only a high-school diploma, while wage and employment gains increasingly accrue to people with higher education.

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

High School Reform

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

High School Reform

by  Bekah McNeel  – July 16, 2018

Dan D. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace.

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

Personalized learning has broad appeal, but may be more revolutionary than we think

Future of Learning

by  Laura Pappano  – July 2, 2018

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How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

Internships, contests and engineering coursework give teens from the area’s majority-Latino high schools an entree to STEM careers

California

by Joanne Jacobs  – June 7, 2018

Inside New York City’s segregated high school system

How policies and procedures prevent integration in one of the nation’s most diverse cities

High School Reform

by  Hechinger Report  – May 31, 2018

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue.

School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

How Colorado is betting on counseling to vault low-income kids into good jobs and post-secondary education

High School Reform

by  Sarah Gonser  – May 31, 2018

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