The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. It is the school pride,” he said. But it’s also the deep history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. Schools would also be open on Saturdays and through the summer. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Similarly, I said back in April 2012: Please realize that it doesn’t matter how many safeguards are put into place before retention occurs. Perfectly preparing a generation for its own history. Thinking about charter schools. Most parents care very much about their children’s literacy development, of course.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Public-school Failures. Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. The nurse pulled out her grandson’s hospital attendance log.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. And making schools more flexible is a top XQ Institute priority. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Principal Robert Roark has been part of a team at Leslie County High School that raised the graduation rate from among the worst in the state to 99 percent. obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Pedro Noguera, now an education professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied single-sex schools for boys and men of color while directing New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education. Afrocentric schools sought to elevate the history of Africa, emphasizing topics like the pharaohs of Egypt.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? Young and Jeffrey Sachs explain in the Tulsa World , By wielding censorious punishments on school districts, students, and teachers for imagined violations, [Oklahoma state] has undermined educational freedom on an unprecedented scale. What book that looks honestly at U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

New Orleans has been branded a “choice system” primarily because it has maximized these two principles of school autonomy and choice more than any other district in the county, using charter schools, a voucher program and a computerized enrollment system. But black teachers are underrepresented in New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. 7, the day after the attack.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. API’s vice president of communications delivered a special presentation to the board in 2012 on marketing strategies. The idea caught on.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

After her husband took a job that would keep him on the road most of the time, Williams moved back in with her parents in 2012 to save money. Her daughter, 12, and two sons, 11 and 10, started school, and Williams got a job in medical billing in Jasper, 30 minutes from Birmingham. Gardendale also cited Shelby County v.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

In 2012, Cleveland embarked on a plan to improve education by making high-quality early education available and affordable for all families; creating a selection of high-performing schools in each neighborhood; and developing systems to help high school graduates succeed in college or careers. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. By 2012, about 1.8 11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. Wire photo: © Harry Lynch/TNS/ZUMA Wire.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

I can appreciate Treme’s history as one of the first black neighborhoods in the country, but I don’t have the kind of deep love of its customs, its music, its street culture that my mom and grandmother share. The math scores are even more discouraging, with just 16 percent of voucher and public school students passing state tests.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2017

After the Martin Behrman Charter School student bore witness to the death, she went to school. Poetry gave Brown an outlet to gain some control over her life in ways that math or history could not. Seeing blood spill from the body as oil spills into the ocean…how is a female not to fear for her life.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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