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.

“Canyon Dreams”

COLUMN: How one Navajo Nation high school is trying to help students see a future that includes college

In a new book on "rez ball," columnist Michael Powell explores the lives of Navajo high schoolers on and off the court

Divided We Learn

by  Liz Willen  – November 6, 2019

black male students

COLUMN: Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

A separate class for black boys led to improvements in dropout rates, study finds

High School Reform

by  Jill Barshay  – October 28, 2019

social-emotional learning curricula

A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

Concern about the quality of social-emotional programs is rising — but one Virginia school sees academic success by focusing on students’ emotional wellbeing   

Early Education

by  Caroline Preston  – October 24, 2019

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.
Latino students

Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

Latinos have some of the lowest education levels in the country, but poverty and immigration fears aren’t holding back some students and schools trying to break the cycle

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

high school diploma

Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

In a Kentucky county where coal once reigned, a principal tries to map a future for students that won’t take them away from home

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

Avoyelles Parish

Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

In a parish with one of the lowest rates of black high school graduates in the nation, a community tries to raise graduation rates

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

Latino students

Desde el campo: En un condado de Carolina del Norte donde pocos padres latinos tienen diplomas, sus hijos van en busca de una educación universitaria

Los latinos tienen algunos de los más bajos niveles educacionales del país, pero el temor a la pobreza y a los problemas de inmigración no son un impedimento para alumnos y escuelas que tratan de romper el ciclo

First Step to the Middle Class

by Meredith Kolodner  – October 21, 2019

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

Eight years in, a program that helps low-income students stay on track to college is spreading — and showing results

Guidance Gap

by  Sarah Gonser  – August 30, 2019

XQ

Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

Innovation and equity didn’t mix

Future of Learning

by  Tara García Mathewson  – August 7, 2019

What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

School districts are pushing career exploration into middle and lower grades, convinced the preparation necessary for tomorrow’s jobs needs to begin earlier

Map to the Middle Class

by  Stephanie Strom  – July 7, 2019

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