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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.

Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, New Orleans, News, The South

A student’s death leads a teacher to open a new kind of high school

by Marta Jewson May 27, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform

What’s the point of high school in a small fishing town?

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz May 26, 2015March 30, 2020
Tenth graders discuss Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night in Jessica Frichtel’s language arts class. Group work is the norm at Kearny High School’s engineering program.
Posted inCalifornia, Elementary to High School, High School Reform, News, The West

Can we really prepare kids for both college and career?

by Brenda Iasevoli May 26, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inHigh School Reform, Higher Education, News

How some high schools are closing the income gap among graduates

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 20, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigh School Reform, Higher Education, Opinion

College financial aid letters can get complicated, but are rarely trickery

Avatar photo by W. Kent Barnds May 14, 2015April 8, 2021
At Quitman Street Renew School in Newark, Principal Erskine Glover faces the ongoing challenge of keeping the right teachers in place.
Posted inA Promise to Renew, Elementary to High School, High School Reform, News

Does anyone have the answers on school turnarounds?

Avatar photo by Sara Neufeld May 14, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, Immigration, News

These schools graduate English learners at a rate nearly 75 percent higher than other schools. What are they doing right?

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner May 8, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, News

Learning more outside of the classroom than in

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond April 12, 2015March 30, 2020
Metropolitan ninth-graders Latrese Martin, Ross Jacobson and Tia Stevens say their trauma-informed class gives them a place to be heard.
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, News

How schools can lower suspension rates and raise graduation rates

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner April 2, 2015March 30, 2020
Leeanna Rayes, 16, was looking for something “different” when she applied to the Greater Waco Advanced Manufacturing Academy, which gives students hands-on training and then guarantees them a job upon graduation.
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, Higher Education, News

What if a high school diploma guaranteed a highly paid job?

Avatar photo by Sarah Garland March 25, 2015April 8, 2021

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