The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Imagine you’re a ...

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. Just look on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The traditional high school model, with its emphasis on rote ...

150-year-old love notes written by high school students were found in the floorboards of a school in Maine, according to Bangor Daily News. Preservation contractor Lee Hoagland started working on the ...

There’s nothing worse than approaching a challenging situation grossly unprepared—except, perhaps, believing that you’re well-equipped for the task only to find that you’ve overestimated your ...

The traditional structure of American high schools has looked fairly similar for several decades: Students sit in rows of small, square desks with a teacher at the head of the class, for approximately ...