Tag results for: high school
Is calculus an addiction that college admissions officers can’t shake?
Calculus can be a miserable slog for many high schoolers. It’s estimated that 20 percent of students (about 800,000 a year) take the subject, generally when they are seniors....
These Native tribes are working with schools to boost attendance
This story is part of a collaboration on chronic absenteeism among Native American students between The Associated Press and ICT, a news outlet that covers Indigenous issues. It is...
OPINION: Schools can and should do more to help students prepare for career paths that don’t require a college degree
Student interest in school is declining. According to a recent Gallup survey, less than six in 10 middle- and high-schoolers say they’ve learned something interesting at school in the...
OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school
Public trust in higher education has reached a historic low. A major reason is that rising student debt is undermining the return on investment many students expect from a...
Thrown into the deep end of algebra
In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated...
A community college could transform a region — and help itself grow. Will voters buy it?
LOCKHART, Texas — Sometime last year, Alfonso Sifuentes was on a bus tour as part of a chamber of commerce’s efforts to map out the future of the bustling...
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