The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Courtney Harritt, a spokesperson for ACCEL, wrote by email that OHDELA’s enrollment surge hit just as the school year started, creating operational challenges, and that ACCEL is making changes after taking over the school from another company in 2018. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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Charter School Education Policy Public School History 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. In math, only 3 percent of assignments did the same, according to the study. Here, a quote from a 2018 graduate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. At Lusher, in 2020, 13 percent of teachers were Black compared with 22 percent of the students.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.

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Junior High Charter School Social Studies Elementary School 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Students are doing as well as before the switch, according to Riley.

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Tradition High School Professional Development Social Studies 100

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Related: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says. He struggled to read and do grade-level math and couldn’t follow what was being taught in science and social studies. Yduarte said Guadalupe was consistently failing all his classes.

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