Heinemann Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Despite the fact that our current high school math curriculum is often outdated and not preparing students for the current societal and workplace realities, change is slow to come. Today, we hear from Steve Leinwand and Eric Milou, longtime champions of high school math instruction reform and authors of Invigorating High School Math.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. One high school teacher in Louisiana who participated in the survey said his students needed a more advanced curriculum.

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ED Surge

MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I vaguely remember the same practice from back when I was in high school. The XQ High School Math Badging Initiative seeks to upend some of the existing high school systems and structures that create barriers in the very places where students should get to see opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me. He credits his rising ambitions to encouragement from his teachers at his Brooklyn high school, part of what was then a relatively new and untested high school network known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, some high schools around the country are tackling the issue head-on by blurring the lines between education and workforce systems and establishing training programs designed to create a pathway into well-paying jobs. “The The pandemic worsened the situation: Almost every industry faced a shortage of qualified workers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Aléshah Brown wasn’t yet in high school when she started having doubts about college. This story also appeared in The Washington Post “Even in middle school, you’re feeling all this pressure and stress about going to college, but no one’s asking you, ‘What do you want to do?’ ” said Brown, of San Antonio, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. At a minimum, every high school student should have a work-based learning experience. The rare exceptions? The time is right.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

For thousands of high school students who are graduating, this time of year is all about looking to the future — namely, preparing for college in the fall. States with 1,000 or more undocumented high school graduates are shown. estimates that 120,000 undocumented students are graduating from high school this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2023

Whether they consider these factors or not, many flagships have had poor records recruiting Black and Latino high school graduates to enroll. In 14 states, the gap between the number of public high school graduates who are Black and the number of Black students who enroll in the state flagship was 10 percentage points or more in 2021.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Schools with English-learning students are tasked not just with ensuring that these children acquire the language but also, as with all other students, succeed academically and eventually graduate from high school. The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. Data from the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2022

million high school students take college courses each year. Evaluations like those called for by the report matter because ideas that sound promising for helping more high school students sign up and succeed in college courses don’t always work out. Dual-enrollment programs help nearly 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New data released this week from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, known as the “nation’s report card,” should raise the alarm for America’s high schools. Those students are now freshmen in high school. But while the task facing high schools is daunting, this is no time for hand-wringing.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 8, 2020

Thank you, Jeff Silva-Brown , for sharing how Ukiah High School in California has been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I am especially appreciative that you shared about the social-emotional supports that Ukiah High is trying to provide to students and families. Episode 013 is below.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MARCH 3, 2024

Just know that if you don’t meet within your school day, your group won’t be able to take on nearly as many things. This usually works well for middle school programs that don’t necessarily have the volume of business to address. So, be realistic when planning your calendar. This is core to being a representative democracy.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. Evans says these students’ eyes light up when they talk about the self-directed learning they’re doing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

I took calculus as a high school senior. Only 20 or so students at the large Catholic all-girls school I attended in Chicago were in the class. Yet calculus continues to enjoy a singular status in high school advanced math. It was the ultimate destination on the advanced math track.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

As this spring’s high school seniors gear up for graduation, there’s a silver lining worth noting: The class of 2021 may be better prepared to take hold of their future than the classes before them. Prior to the pandemic, transitioning from high school to college or career may have marked the first major life change for most teens.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2020

Thank you, Shameka Gerald , for sharing how Heritage High School in Newport News, Virginia is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10- to 15-minute check-ins with educators all over. Episode 028 is below.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. Rural students began high school with the same interest in science and math careers as their suburban counterparts, the survey reveals.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

It marked a nadir for a metric crucial to the flagship university’s commitment to diversity in a state where about a third of public high school graduates each year are Black. The university’s admissions team resolved to reverse the trend, with urgent outreach to high school seniors who had started applications but not finished them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Many students whose last years of high school were disrupted by the pandemic are struggling academically in the foundational college courses they need to succeed later in their academic and professional careers. Related: Covid dimmed college prospects for high school students who need help. Their failure is my failure.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 6, 2020

Thank you, Jeff Palladino , for sharing how Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, New York is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I especially appreciated hearing about the challenges of implementing robust, student-driven, inquiry-based learning during this time.Your school is a special place.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2021

Unlike most college-goers, however, Lopez is still a senior in high school. But the number of students enrolling in and passing these classes has started slipping downward — dramatically, in some places — suggesting a potential decline ahead in the number of high school students who end up going to college.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

While participating in a retreat focused on analyzing data and equity, Malden High School Principal Chris Mastrangelo noticed one of his teachers writing something on a notepad. Students at Malden High School, in a Massachusetts school district that’s made a long-term commitment to helping all students succeed.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2022

The class of 2022 made it almost halfway through high school before the pandemic. They pushed through their junior year, often considered the hardest year of high school because of standardized tests, heavy course loads and college preparation, with less support and guidance than other graduating classes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The initiative, called Genius, Joy and Love: A Focus on Black Students, is the brainchild of Valerie Kinloch, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. And its inaugural cohort wrapped up earlier this summer, on Aug. Baldwin, 18, spent some of her last weeks before college attending the student summer academy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

Thank you, Dan McDowell , for sharing how the Grossmont Union High School District in California is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Episode 022 is below.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

Northam closed down every public school in the state for the rest of the school year. I went to school on Wednesday, March 11, not knowing it would be my last day as a high school student. Julia Finke is a senior at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the stands, Frederick Douglass High School fans dressed in blue and gray screamed themselves hoarse. It was a rare moment of pure triumph, in an exhausting school year that has brought one disaster after another, from Covid surges to bus-driver shortages to hurricane blackouts — with barely time to recover and breathe in between.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A troubling post-pandemic pattern is emerging across the nation’s schools: test scores and attendance are down, yet more students are earning high school diplomas. suggests bleak futures for many of these high school graduates, given the declining rate of college attendance and completion. A majority of D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Millions of students are leaving high school unprepared for college-level coursework. At the same time, millions of students are reporting that high school is too easy. Most high schools today will look familiar even to folks like me who are losing (or just starting to lose) the battle with gray hair.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Students who graduated from high school last year but deferred college because of the pandemic are at grave risk of never going at all. Enrollment for low-income high school grads dropped 29 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020, compared with a 17 percent decline for students from more affluent families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

NEW YORK — Picture today’s beleaguered high school senior, stuck at home finishing classes online, stripped of graduation rituals and making college decisions amidst endless coronavirus uncertainty. Recent surveys reveal a major rethinking of college plans among recent high school graduates.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We are excited, proud, and humbled to partner with Vista Challenge High School to develop an XQ Super School ! It is one of the 10 chosen Super Schools and a member of our League of Innovative Schools.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. However, I thought I would share an easy lesson plan that you might want to try in your high school classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

When Johnathan settles inside momentarily, the women, both teachers at Johnathan’s high school, ask Cannon the question that’s brought them there: “What are your hopes and dreams for Johnathan?”. Cannon doesn’t hesitate: She wants him to finish high school, get a job and maybe go to college. “I

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