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.
COLUMN: Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students
Potential signs of long-lasting problems for low-achieving students
Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers
A struggling West Virginia district sends teachers to students’ homes to help them get to college
Alaska Native students pursue STEM, with great success
Pushing back against stereotypes, students in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program outperform students of all backgrounds in math and science
Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that
A longtime advocate for black-controlled schools in Milwaukee found an unlikely home among conservatives pushing school choice
How resources and opportunities differ for NYC students
Resources, instructional materials are drastically different for public school students living in the same city
OPINION: How easy high schools are failing their students
Research underscores the need for systems that challenge and engage
Convincing students that learning blue-collar job skills will pay off
In Wisconsin, a school district faces a dilemma: Businesses are desperate for their students, but don’t always pay as well as they used to
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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
OPINION: Asian, black and Latino solidarity should come first
There’s more to student success than hard work and merit
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”