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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

The Hechinger Report

Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. Learning for a purpose is deeper and longer lasting; leadership means taking responsibility for what matters to you, something every person, whether adult, child, or in between, can learn to do.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

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. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter. They encountered mostly silence.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

The Hechinger Report

“There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Students at the Luis Valdez Leadership Academy, a charter school on San Jose’s low-income east side.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

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. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.