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Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning
Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report This past fall, Ragan Toppan,...
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Teachers go to school on racial bias
Cambridge Street Upper school math teacher Stephen Abreu is also a trained facilitator for weekly discussions among teachers about race and bias. Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —...
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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?
Juliet Basinger, a rising seventh grader at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, demonstrates the capabilities of a drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. Photo: Stephanie Strom...
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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped
Alec Resnick and Shaunalynn Duffy hoped to open a radically new school, in a building that would have been part of a mixed-use development in Somerville, Mass., still under construction. Photo: Aram...
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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is...
Monnojan Tasnia, a 19-year-old who moved to New York City from Bangladesh four years ago, works with her Bridge Coach, Ruth Camacho, at the International High School for Health Sciences in Elmhurst,...
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Desde el campo: En un condado de Carolina del Norte donde pocos padres...
Este artículo sobre estudiantes latinos lo produjo The Hechinger Report, una organización de noticias independiente sin fines de lucro enfocada en la desigualdad y la innovación en la educación....
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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and...
FIRST STEP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS: More than 27 million Americans age 25 or older don’t have a high school diploma or GED, the basic credential needed to qualify for nearly 80 percent of jobs in this...
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Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school
FIRST STEP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS: More than 27 million Americans age 25 or older don’t have a high school diploma or GED, the basic credential needed to qualify for nearly 80 percent of jobs in this...
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Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have...
FIRST STEP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS: More than 27 million Americans age 25 or older don’t have a high school diploma or GED, the basic credential needed to qualify for nearly 80 percent of jobs in this...
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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to...
Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Caroline Preston/The...
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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students
A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. A 10th...
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How one Navajo Nation high school is trying to help students see a future...
Chinle High senior Cooper Burbank shooting hoops with his younger brother. Burbank hopes to get bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering. Photo courtesy of Caitlin O’Hara Nachae Nez is a...
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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools
Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the...
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Privilegio para los necesitados: Gigante de la industria agrícola retribuye a...
Grupos de estudiantes de The Wonderful College Prep Academy en Lost Hills se turnan para una sesión individual con el maestro. La práctica está inspirada en el enfoque de Alfabetización Equilibrada...
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Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers’ children
Groups of students at the Wonderful College Prep Academy in Lost Hills rotate for 1-on-1 time with the instructor. The practice is inspired by the Balanced Literacy approach to ELA. Photo: Alfonso...
View ArticleSTUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school
After getting expelled from two middle schools and “doing literally nothing all day” at a Brooklyn high school for aspiring artists, Stephanie Gaweda decided she wanted to turn her life around. But...
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STUDENT VOICES: Ready to drop out of school, until restorative justice...
School was a happy place for Adriana Del Valle — at the elementary level. During her middle-school years, though, she eventually stopped going to school, started hanging out with the “wrong crowd”...
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Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores
High school students comfort each other on Chicago’s South Side. A new Chicago study shows that students who attend schools that foster soft skills do better in high school and beyond. (Photo by Scott...
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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college
Towana Pierre-Floyd, principal of Frederick A. Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year,...
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