Immigrants and Refugees

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

School network takes turbocharged approach to education for refugee students

Fugees Academy, perhaps the nation’s only school to serve refugees exclusively, tries to pack three years of English into one

K-12

by Aaricka Washington  – December 23, 2019

Future of Learning

The factory model of education is out. Now more schools are personalizing learning and trying to motivate students by empowering them in the classroom. Will this improve academic outcomes? Will it close achievement gaps? The Hechinger Report explores the innovations at the core of today's cutting-edge schools.

music in schools

Low-income districts find ways to help students make music

Though wealth gaps remain, more American kids at all income levels get music in school now than 20 years ago

Arts Education

by Lillian Mongeau  – December 16, 2019

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

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

immigrants

COLUMN: We are a nation of migrants, not a collection of diplomas

The rush to embrace only highly educated immigrants reveals our classist elitism

Higher Education

by  Andre Perry  – August 6, 2019

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OPINION: School counselors must ‘move mountains’ to help undocumented students access U.S. higher education

A call for comprehensive immigration reform that would benefit students

Guidance Gap

by  Kim Lopez  – August 1, 2019

Thousands of students cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day to go to college

Though many are U.S. citizens, they are still getting caught up in the anti-immigration climate

Divided We Learn

by  Charlotte West  – June 19, 2019

The silence of school leaders on climate change

Some educators say school boards and education groups have a responsibility to speak out on climate inaction, but those calls aren’t always being well-received

K-12

by  Caroline Preston  – June 12, 2019

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