The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

Stephen Chiger is a director of literacy for Uncommon Schools, having served its middle and high schools for 16 years. Danny Murray is in his 11th year at Uncommon Schools, now serving as director of high school English. Stephens favorite novel to teach is The Bluest Eye.

K-12 134

K-12 Pedagogy High School Cultures 134

NCHE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When a Pennsylvania school board in 2020 pulled over 300 books and materials from school bookshelves, a student group at the high school, the Panther Anti-Racist Union, took note.

Advocacy 130

Advocacy Education Education Policy Teaching 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Black Students Association is composed of Black high school students at Labs High School. In partnership with their advisors, I had some of these Black high school students visit my first-graders. They introduced themselves, played games, colored and connected over hairstyles.

Pedagogy 101

Pedagogy High School Cultures History 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

Manaaki Waretini-Beaumont, now 18 and an environmental science major at the University of Canterbury, learned about the downside of streaming when she enrolled in Avonside Girls, a 1,000-student high school in Christchurch. Like a high school diploma, the NCEA Level 3 is a minimum qualification to enter college in New Zealand.

High School 103

High School Lesson Plan Research Education 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Those of us who worked with high school students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning race-conscious admissions can’t profess shock over news showing decreases in enrollment among Black and Latinx students across many college campuses, especially those considered competitive for enrollment.

Economics 105

Economics High School Education Research 105

ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2025

She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School. At Stanford] we got a grant to start an online high school. She also worked at NovoEd, another online learning platform. I really thrive in those environments. [At

EdTech 78

EdTech Tutoring K-12 Educational Technology 78

ED Surge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. When would I ever use this?

K-12 124

K-12 High School Middle School Tradition 124

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Students miss school for reasons ranging from anxiety to unstable living conditions, said Jason Jones, a cultural success coach at San Carlos High School. The district has made gains because it is changing the perception of school and what it can offer, said Dennison, the superintendent.

Elementary School 94

Elementary School Charter School Cultures High School 94

ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While women are not just outpacing men in degrees — girls are doing better academically and completing high school on time more frequently than boys — the push for parity has been moving at a glacial pace in STEM. About 28 percent of high school girls reported that they avoid classes with low female enrollment.

High School 138

High School Leadership Tradition Research 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding.

High School 144

High School Advocacy Research Economics 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Nationwide, Native students miss school far more frequently than their peers, but not at Watonga High School. Indian Education Director Hollie Youngbear poses for a portrait at Watonga High School on Wednesday, Oct. One helps students with school expenses and promotes conferences for tribal youth.

High School 100

High School Charter School History Cultures 100

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. Still, I pushed on, determined to prove I belonged academically.

Education 103

Education Advocacy Middle School Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

States, on the other hand, establish high school graduation requirements and provide broad instructional guidance through learning standards. For most K-12 students, civics is a one and done single-semester high school course. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

Civics 81

Civics K-12 High School Middle School 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Meanwhile, factors like ninth grade GPA and attendance may be better predictors of high school graduation rates than any standardized test. Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success.

Economics 120

Economics Psychology Education Policy Humanities 120

ED Surge

MAY 9, 2025

When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education. We have to look at all of this: What do the high schools need? What do the community colleges need?

K-12 90

K-12 High School Psychology Middle School 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Every student needs a chance to practice these vital skills from kindergarten through high school. The opportunity to learn basic data skills should not be reserved for a select group of students. This will also result in better test scores because students will understand the material and be able to apply what they know.

K-12 137

K-12 Teaching High School Social Studies 137

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 11, 2025

Students learn about such a wide range of politics in high school history classes. While some courses are about foreign countries, others focus on what is happening in the United States. This means students learn about important leaders and policies that have drastically shaped the United States into the country it is today.

Teaching 130

Teaching Civic Engagement Civics Lesson Plan 130

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The study , which looked at a rich set of high school and college data in Texas, found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college.

Geography 139

Geography Economics Education Policy Government 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

Imagine youre a student in high school or college. She had the high school students watch a recorded lecture. Afterward, they all took the same exam graded by teachers at the school. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes?

Psychology 142

Psychology High School Research Education 142

ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

Library 95

Library High School Teaching Economics 95

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

After visiting high school classrooms most of the day, I then debriefed with the leadership team. During a recent coaching visit a modeled how this could be done. Questions were used to calibrate and flesh out growth opportunities.

Leadership 452

Leadership Humanities High School Research 452

ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

In recent years, Johnson, along with many other professors, has noticed that students struggle more than ever with the jump from high school to college. Algebra 2 teaches skills like problem solving and high order thinking, she adds, which help students succeed academically overall.

Tutoring 116

Tutoring High School Middle School Teaching 116

Zinn Education Project

JULY 8, 2025

As a public school educator, I found no cause to argue with her. Charles Ellenbogen, high school teacher, Cleveland, Ohio Original Sins is already having an impact on our learning, mindsets, and teaching. They are part of a study group of eleven educators from San Marcos’ elementary schools, high schools, and state university.

Education 52

Education Elementary School Social Justice High School 52

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

If this is for a high school audience, I definitely want them reading journals and looking at primary resources more, and not engaging through the filter of a chatbot.” For Rogoff, though, the goal is to inspire young people to get interested enough in the subject matter to want to engage with primary materials.

American History 141

American History History High School Teaching 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

DUNEDIN, New Zealand When Principal Jen Rodgers took a 10-week sabbatical in 2021, she was on a mission to find a way to improve mathematics instruction at the primary school she leads here in one of the countrys oldest cities. Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths. Rodgers, who has led the 420-student St.

Government 113

Government Professional Development K-12 Teaching 113

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

You could tell it what’s important to you (like location, play-based learning or a focus on the arts), and it could suggest schools that might be a good fit. It would be like having a super-smart friend who knows a lot about schools and can give you lots of ideas.

Advocacy 68

Advocacy Cultures High School Research 68

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While Barnetts solution focuses on fundamentals, Bryson says she and her organization's partners are looking at how artificial intelligence could play a role in personalizing learning to help middle and high school students catch up.

K-12 126

K-12 Economics Middle School High School 126

ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

My background in high school theater helps me use suspense and expressive body language, allowing even students with limited English proficiency to grasp the lesson before I translate key points. I engage my students, especially my multilingual learners, through every creative arsenal I have gained through my arts education.

K-12 117

K-12 Middle School Cultures High School 117

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

ACC already partners with Lockhart ISD on an early college high school that allows students to complete transferable college credit hours while earning a high school diploma, and proponents of annexation highlight the affordable higher education opportunities it would generally provide students in the Lockhart area.

High School 120

High School Economics Public School Education 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

It will take more than long-form high school essays to save the world, but the cognitive endurance they require is one of the few institutional bastions that remain against the all-out melting of the mind into the machine. Tim Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut.

Teaching 100

Teaching High School Education 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Neither of his parents, who are immigrants from Mexico, had gone to college. He didn’t have close friends as examples. Money was tight.

Tutoring 136

Tutoring Social Science Cultures Research 136

TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S. History and one semester of civics in high school. As a result of the study, states were encouraged to: Increase attention to civics and U.S. Provide detailed guidance in both subject areas.

Civics 98

Civics Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies 98

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.”

Humanities 52

Humanities Teaching American History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Taking college courses through dual enrollment has been the most rewarding part of my high school experience so far. As a teenager at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, I get to explore my interests in public relations and communications by taking courses at a nearby community college, Valencia.

Tutoring 75

Tutoring High School Leadership Government 75

ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. And at least four states — Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida — have enacted statewide bans limiting school smartphone access.

Middle School 133

Middle School Public School High School Social Studies 133

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2025

A high school science teacher might find little value in a workshop focused on early literacy strategies, just as a veteran educator might feel patronized by introductory sessions on classroom management. One significant issue is the lack of relevance and personalization.

Professional Development 282

Professional Development Classroom Management Cultures High School 282

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2025

A national study by Kent State found that 45 percent of public schools had newspapers in 2021, down from 64 percent 10 years earlier. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. All public school students deserve the same opportunities as their wealthier and suburban counterparts.

K-12 83

K-12 High School Public School Private School 83