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College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America’s high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers.
Career and Technical Education
alternative career paths
Future of High School

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

Building21's Launchpad takes students from high school through graduation to college-level work and a paid career — all without a bachelor's degree.

Lauren Wagner
family-school partnerships
COVID-19
Future of High School

Florida High School’s ‘Parent University’ Helps Navigate Learning Recovery

Haines City High School counselor Leslie Paul brings parents together every month to build stronger family-school partnerships

Joshua Bay
Author: Joshua Bay
Future of High School
Cedar Rapids
Future of High School

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

Iowa BIG is revolutionizing high school, collaborating with districts to give students opportunities to learn & grow through community-based projects.

Andrew Bauld
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
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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Innovative High Schools
education
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

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Gen Z

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

Meghan Mangrum
Future of High School

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

Beth Fertig, XQ INstitute
Future of High School

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

Nikki Wallace
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
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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

New York City’s Apprenticeship Boom for High School Students

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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