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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

SAN FRANCISCO — It was two days before the start of the school year, and Lauren Koehler shrugged off her backpack and slid out of a maroon hoodie as she approached the blocky, concrete building that houses the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Enrollment Center. 8:04 AM Four people waiting in the lobby, 12 callers “Good morning!

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country who are involved in their local public schools in one way or another. This winter, we talked to a parent in Cleveland, a superintendent in Wyoming and a basketball coach in New Mexico among more than a dozen others. CHOOSE A LOCATION.