High Schools
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Opening doors together: Reflections on the 2025 National Education Equity Lab West Coast Summit
A Stanford organizer of the event tells how some 350 students from Los Angeles-area Title I high schools saw firsthand how a university education is in their reach.
June 12, 2025
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Newark students learn the basics of AI as they weigh its use in their future careers
Chalkbeat Newark reports on the implementation of an AI curriculum in the classroom of Mike Taubman, a teacher and Stanford Digital Education fellow.
May 06, 2025
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Tasheena Thompson, ’26: Ready to serve
Pre-med student Tasheena Thompson, a biology major, talks about her journey from Tohatchi, New Mexico, to Stanford University, and what that represents to her Navajo community.
May 05, 2025
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Congratulations to high school students excelling in courses from Stanford and beyond
The National Education Equity Lab celebrated its National Honor Society inductees, including 51 students who earned top grades in a Stanford computer science course.
April 22, 2025
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Spotlight on Varun Madan, undergraduate computer science student at Stanford Engineering
Varun Madan, a teaching fellow for CS 105: Introduction to Computers, shares what drew him to Stanford and what he finds rewarding about teaching and mentoring high schoolers.
March 18, 2025
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New Stanford courses in pipeline for high schools in low-income communities
Stanford Digital Education plans to double the number of courses it offers in Title I high schools by 2027.
February 25, 2025
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Stanford Digital Education creates AI curriculum for high schools
With support from high school teachers in New York and California, the program combines lesson plans, eventually to be available online, with the Google ‘AI Essentials’ course.
February 18, 2025
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Easing the ‘jump’ from high school to college: how teaching fellows support a Stanford course
Teaching fellows provide dynamic and empathetic guidance to high school students in Professor Lerone A. Martin's course, ‘Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.’
January 10, 2025
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How higher education can win back America
Michael Roth, Wesleyan's president, argues in the New York Times that universities can recover the public's good will by bringing opportunities to new groups of learners.
December 27, 2024
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Universities recognized for strengthening pathways to higher education from underserved high schools
Carnegie Corporation of New York and Ed Equity Lab hosted an event to thank partners for their leadership in expanding opportunities for students in under-resourced communities.
December 20, 2024
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‘An amazing opportunity for us to reach beyond campus.’ Stanford brings CS 105 to high schools
A partnership with the National Education Equity Lab enables Stanford to offer CS 105: Introduction to Computers in under-resourced high schools across the country.
December 10, 2024
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The Ed Equity Lab, a leading college pipeline, achieves great success
Michael Nietzel, writing in Forbes, describes how a collaboration between universities and the National Education Equity Lab prepares low-income students to thrive in college.
November 26, 2024
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High school educators shape Stanford effort to extend pathways from under-resourced communities to college
A small group of teachers and administrators convened on campus to give input and describe possibilities for the dual enrollment program run by Stanford Digital Education.
October 28, 2024
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‘Do I know my history?’ Los Angeles teens study Malcolm X and MLK with Stanford professor
Students at Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet School were inspired by a dual enrollment Stanford course that tackles ‘race, religion, and the politics of freedom.’
September 18, 2024
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Colleges reinstating the ACT/SAT should add a program like this too
Selective universities can identify talented low-income students by offering dual credit courses with the National Education Equity Lab, writes Michael Nietzel in Forbes.
May 23, 2024
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Topeka High students' critical thinking draws visit from Stanford University professor
This is the second year that Greg Watkins' ethics course, "Searching Together for the Common Good," has been offered at Topeka High School through Stanford Digital Education.
May 15, 2024
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“It proves I can do anything I put my mind to”
Niagara Falls High School students excelled in CS 105, a computer science course offered in fall 2023 by Stanford Digital Education.
May 15, 2024
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‘This is what my school was missing’: A dual enrollment course brings Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to under-resourced high schools
Are the two legendary freedom fighters relevant to today’s teenagers? Stanford’s Lerone A. Martin is discovering that high school students are hungry to learn about them.
May 09, 2024
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‘I needed a challenge’: Frida’s story
Frida Gonzalez took the Stanford dual-credit course CS 105: Introduction to Computers as a high school sophomore in Los Angeles. She returned as a peer mentor in following years.
April 15, 2024
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High schoolers visit the Stanford campus and glimpse future possibilities
Students from June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco toured Jasper Ridge and a microbiome lab as part of a dual-credit bioengineering course, per Stanford Report.
April 12, 2024