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MARCH 13, 2017

Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color. Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children.

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These students carried those outside stressors into the classroom when in-person schooling resumed. However, when it comes to sources of mental health struggles, schools themselves are not blameless. In Detroit, almost half of the student population attends a charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Personalization is a growing focus for policy development, technology applications and educational marketing. Theodore and Nancy Sizer also understood the value of knowing students well, incorporating that tenet in their Coalition of Essential Schools Common Principles. The idea itself is not new.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Santos is the director of journalism and media arts for the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. Santos began her teaching career in a facility for students found guilty of criminal offenses; in the nearly two decades since, she has been a teacher and administrator in various schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The website The Lens , which covers public education in New Orleans, reported that 65 percent of schools have declined in performance over the last three years. “Our

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At some homes, she translates school emails into Spanish and answers technical questions. Then she gets down to what has become the meat of her job as a school social worker at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School: making sure her students and their families are coping with the multiple stresses of the pandemic. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

But some educators say the expectations Tennessee has set for its students are too high. A report from the education nonprofit NWEA suggests they’re struggling more than older students because the pandemic struck when they would have been learning foundational reading skills in kindergarten. The research on retention is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. Trade Industry.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The school’s student body is almost entirely African-American. With bilingualism linked to enhanced academic and social skills, educators say dual-language programs can be used to narrow the achievement gap and equip underserved students for a future in a competitive workforce. schools, experts say — up from about 260 in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Students of color perform better academically, and are more likely to stay in school, when they are exposed to teachers of their race or ethnicity. “A

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

“One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. For them, and for employers who need educated graduates, that means the effects of this crisis will be felt not just for one semester, but for six or more years. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Other charter operators made promises that they knew, from the start, they couldn’t keep.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But he doesn’t like it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. The post They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

High school senior Brody Ford is looking forward to the final weeks of the school year, but not for the reasons you might think. At San Diego’s High Tech High School, Ford and his fellow 12th-graders take end-of-the-year courses in personal finance, cooking on a budget, even sewing. Photo: Margaret Noble.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

If one looks and listens closely, black reform advocates and charter leaders are responding to the mythology that black people don’t want charter schools or reform in general. When black people say they don’t like education reform, they mean the trade-offs of institutionalized oppression are patently unacceptable.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2016

There’s no reason to think he couldn’t go to college even,” his special education teacher said last year at the end of an exhausting meeting about what she perceived as his bad attitude toward school. schools: The system simply is not set up for kids who have both an intellectual disability and a sharp intellect.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

As more schools scurry to bring technology to the classroom, some say dodgy programs are growing like weeds — and they threaten the existence of successful programs. Online and blended learning schools account for a small but rapidly growing part of the education ecosphere. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Several times, the school issued a suspension and sent Curry’s granddaughter home. She watched as they fell behind in everything from academic courses to physical education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

“Nobody knows the right path forward,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education , a nonpartisan education research center in Seattle that has compiled an online database of coronavirus response plans provided by scores of districts across the country as a resource for other educators.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He’s missed so much school I can’t believe it,” Petersen said. And school is stability.”. based nonprofit focused on homeless education. It is not focused on education.”. That’s why schools are required to provide extra support. Department of Education defines as “doubled up.”. Data disclosed in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school violence was produced in a collaboration between The Trace , an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to shining a light on America’s gun violence crisis; The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education; and Marie Claire.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services began investigating Tiffany Banks for alleged child neglect and abuse, she says, around the time her son started to misbehave in school and she pushed back on a plan for his educational services. All I’m looking for is a good education for my kid,” said Banks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

You don’t punish a child by denying them an education.” Raymond Pierce, president of the Southern Education Foundation. My son loves school. In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. I was just doing it too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” What makes them different?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Kumar said school counselors were key allies for her and her friends – mentors and confidantes who can help students navigate thoughts, feelings and dilemmas that they may not understand. “A Induja Kumar, senior, BASIS Chandler charter school. Amanda Nolasco, school counselor specialist, Arizona Department of Education.

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