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College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America’s high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers.
STEM
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Future of High School

Robotics-Themed NYC High School Fills Roster in Inaugural Year

Students who spent their childhoods picking apart their toys to see how they worked find new home in program aimed at growing STEM skills.

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
Future of High School
education
Future of High School

Transforming How High School Is Taught Is Tough, But Possible: How I Did It

Takeaways from a Tennessee biology teacher on the conditions and supports critical to making learning relevant to the real world.

Nikki Wallace
college readiness
Career Readiness
Future of High School

Fixing a System that Set Up Youth to Fail: Rhode Island Overhauls High School

Rhode Island aligns its graduation standards, makes FAFSA a requirement, adds real-world courses and ends seat time as a credit criteria

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Gen Z
apprenticeship
Future of High School

$2.5M Gen Z Program Aims to Expand Career Options for High School Students

U.S. Department of Education hopes its ‘Career Z Challenge’ will allow more students to get college credit, apprenticeships and industry credentials

Meghan Mangrum
New York City
apprenticeships
Future of High School

New York City’s Apprenticeship Boom for High School Students

Wall Street CEOs and city officials set ambitious goal to give thousands more teens a head start on careers

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell

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Artificial Intelligence
advanced placement
Future of High School

The Essay’s Future: We Talk to 4 Teachers, 2 Experts and 1 AI Chatbot

ChatGPT, a new, easy-to-use AI tool, could upend the way students learn about writing and self-expression. Is that such a bad thing?

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo

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Future of High School

Iowa Teens Spend Less Time in Classrooms, and Succeed More — Here’s How

Andrew Bauld
Career and Technical Education

New Nonprofit Teaches Philly Students CTE Skills — and Pays Them for Their Work

Lauren Wagner
Future of High School

Taking the Lead: What Happens When Students Help Run Their High Schools

Beth Fertig, XQ INstitute
competency-based-learning

Mastery Learning Backers Launch New HS Transcript to Help Grads Apply to College

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell
Future of High School

How Educators Transformed Their Tennessee School by Listening to Students

Beth Fertig, XQ INstitute
Future of High School

Indianapolis High Schools Using ‘Badges’ to Help Students Land Jobs

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell
Direct Democracy

Students Got $10K to Upgrade Their HS. It Drove a Citywide ‘Wave of Democracy’

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
National School Choice Week

How One HS Offers Alumni Career Coaches — and Teaches Grads to Embrace Ambition

Kelby Hicks
College Admissions

Rethinking College Admissions and Applications with an Eye on AI

Mike Dunn & Chris Horne

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Future of High School

Maryland to Scale Youth Apprenticeship Opportunities with $12M Investment

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
high school

Inside Rhode Island’s Historic New Equity-Based Graduation Standards

Angélica Infante-Green
Author: Angélica Infante-Green
innovation

Rethinking High School: Upending Traditional Subject Structure in Indiana

Beth Fertig, XQ INstitute
Cleveland

Path to Middle Class Jobs: New Manufacturing Center Combines Classroom, Museum

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell
Future of High School

Fueled by Pandemic, Homeschool ‘Hybrids’ Gain Traction With Middle-Class Parents

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
Future of High School

Los Angeles Skilled Trades Program Mixes Summer Jobs and Training All in One

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell
Future of High School

Indianapolis Students Get Leg Up On Careers With European-Style Apprenticeship

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell
Future of High School

Challenging 5 Big Assumptions About Education: How 232 Schools Are Innovating

Chelsea Waite
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