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.

STUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school

Guidance and internships put youth on the path to graduation

High School Reform

by  Zoe Markman  – January 29, 2020

Wonderful College Prep Academy

Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers’ children

The billionaires behind a health food conglomerate built a school to help the farmworkers they employ embrace kale and college

High School Reform

by Alfonso Serrano  – January 18, 2020

Wonderful College Prep Academy

Privilegio para los necesitados: Gigante de la industria agrícola retribuye a la sociedad brindando apoyo a los hijos de sus trabajadores

Los multimillonarios detrás de un conglomerado de comida saludable fundaron una escuela para ayudar a los trabajadores agrícolas de su empresa a celebrar la col rizada y la universidad

Hechinger en Español

by Alfonso Serrano  – January 18, 2020

Rural Education

Rural disaffection has helped to drive the nation’s politics. Yet little attention has been paid to the role of education in this. We examine rural K-12 and higher education through the stories of rural schools and students.
The Charter School of San Diego

A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

Altus Schools in Southern California uses a controversial online platform, but pairs it with small student-teacher ratios and other support

Future of Learning

by Linh Tat  – January 7, 2020

“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

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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

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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

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