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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Cody Bradley might have been a high school dropout without the 9th Grade Success program at Poudre High School. Instead, he’s on track to graduate on time next spring, working part time through an ...