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 ...

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, ...

Want to help your ninth-grader master reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Read closely from rich and challenging ninth grade-level texts, ...