Even before Alamin Smith set foot in Kelvyn Park High School last fall, the woman who would be his 9th grade counselor knew he would need extra help. All the information was right there for Kathryn ...

John Francis Polytechnic High School had an unusual reason to celebrate Monday: Most of its freshmen passed their classes. For the first time in recent memory, the Sun Valley school will enroll more ...

Two teenage boys joking around before class starts—no big deal, right? Scenes like this play out every day at high schools across the country. But this one is part of a carefully orchestrated project ...

In a rare split vote, the Santa Rosa school board Wednesday night voted to increase ninth-grade class sizes, cut deferred maintenance projects and eliminate a highly touted counseling program that ...

This story first appeared in The Hechinger Report. There’s a school improvement model that has gotten consistent results in large schools, small schools, high-performing ones, low-performing ones, ...