Hechinger Report | Education Nation: Mentoring becomes as much about parents as it is about kids

Hechinger Report | Education Nation: Mentoring becomes as much about parents as it is about kids:

Education Nation: Mentoring becomes as much about parents as it is about kids

by Sarah Butrymowicz

CHICAGO — Carolina Hernando was a senior in high school in 1999 when her guidance counselor delivered a devastating blow: She needed a Social Security number to go to college.  An illegal immigrant from Mexico, Hernando had no idea what a Social Security number was, let alone that it would prevent her from becoming a teacher.

Parent mentor coordinators with the Logan Square program prepare for a group presentation during a summer training session. (Photo by Sarah Butrymowicz)

More than a decade later, Hernando still tears up when talking about it. “I was the first in my family to graduate high school,” she said. “I felt like all that hard work was wasted.”
When Hernando, who lives in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, heard about the Logan Square

Education Nation: Program aims to lure next-generation engineers and math whizzes into the classroom

by Sarah Garland

It was the first day of class, and Chris Costello’s instructions to a group of college students in a science building at the University of Texas-Austin were evoking giggles.

Education Nation: ‘Success for All’ curriculum drives Ohio district

by Barbara Kantrowitz

School was just beginning at the end of August, but the students at Wells Academy were already hard at work.
Teacher Heather Davis led her first-graders through “fast-track phonics” — an animated program projected on a screen at the front of the class to help kids associate sounds with letters. The program came from a curriculum called Success for All, which is used in all