High School

The unique teaching model, piloted in Minneapolis, focuses on students' strengths and teachers' relationship with the classroom.

• By Tara García Mathewson

In the first year of a new program, a large San Diego school district experienced small victories—despite some growing pains.

• By Michael Elsen-Rooney

Instead of making students memorize facts, we should teach them to ask questions.

• By David M. Perry

With her pioneering courses, Annie Delgado is filling in the gaps left by more traditional curricula.

• By Sarah Fuss Kessler

Recovery high schools have been shown to have positive effects on students who struggle with addiction. So why aren't there more of them?

• By Britni de la Cretaz

Students march the last leg of a 50-mile journey into the hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to call attention to gun violence on March 28th, 2018, in Janesville, Wisconsin

• By Pacific Standard Staff

No children were harmed in the incident, which comes just two weeks after a gunman killed 17 students at a Florida high school.

• By Kate Wheeling

A controversial new program segregates students in the cafeteria by grade point average and attendance as an incentive to boost achievement.

• By Emily Moon

With a new school year underway in Charlottesville, here's how teachers are addressing the recent violence.

• By Mimi Kirk

Schools whose graduation rates are rising are simultaneously losing many students to charter schools and schools in other parts of town.

• By Mario Koran

Noah Davis talks to Yext CEO Howard Lerman about finding friends to work with, the importance of great teachers, and the balance between intelligence and execution.

• By Noah Davis

Noah Davis talks to Scott Aaronson—named by SuperScholar as one of the 30 smartest people alive—about the unpopularity of nerds, the value of skipping grades, and why Shakespeare isn't the worst.

• By Noah Davis

In 2014, the GED Testing Service rolled out a new assessment meant to measure not just high school equivalency but also career- and college-readiness skills. The questions below are designed to be very similar to those you might find on a GED exam today.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Common Core and big business have combined to make the lot of the upwardly mobile high school dropout even more dire.

• By Daniel J. McGraw

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Even if a traditional four-year university isn’t the best option for some students, they’ll still benefit from college preparedness courses and training in the public school system.

• By Amy Tran

Low-income students lower their hopes of finishing a bachelor's degree in the final years of high school.

• By Philip N. Cohen

We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.

• By Avital Andrews

If we want the public to grasp the theory of evolution, we need to rethink the way we train biology teachers.

• By Tom Jacobs

It's the auditorium of the undergraduate id—and that's precisely why we need it.

• By Ted Scheinman

Growing inequality in America has been matched by a surge in security guards—for gated communities, upscale residential buildings, and more. That trend—more inequality, more guards—is matched across industrialized countries.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Students who get a lot of exercise perform better academically. But competitive varsity sports limit the availability of rigorous activity in schools.

• By Daniel Luzer

If you drop out of high school, odds are you'll end up in a dead-end job for life. But the odds get a lot better if you happen to have some computer skills.

• By Michael Todd

Why is it that, even years after packing up their instruments, many marching band members experience the same anxiety-inducing nightmares?

• By Kim Kankiewicz