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MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa. Value-Add There are other criticisms of public school, of course.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color.

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MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

schools, experts say — up from about 260 in 2000. The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students. But research shows dual-language programs may actually enhance students’ learning in English.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

According to EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on school finance issues, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more in funding than districts that serve mostly students of color. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously. “I’m in the school. Because I email, I call.

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MAY 2, 2020

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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MARCH 29, 2018

“No one has ever asked them that,” said Julio Garcia, a consulting senior research psychologist at Stanford who studies how assumptions people make about them — largely based on stereotypes — have as much of an impact on the success of students as their aptitude and preparation. . “Where do you want to go to college?”

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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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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. APPLETON, Wisc.

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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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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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APRIL 27, 2016

Mandate the reporting of data on the teachers hired and on the types of students these schools serve. Promote new strategies to measure outcomes of these schools, taking into account the “unique characteristics” of the programs. Online and blended learning schools account for a small but rapidly growing part of the education ecosphere.

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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.

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APRIL 14, 2022

RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In Capistrano Unified, a 44,000-student school district in southern California, the rate of homelessness among Latino students was roughly 24 percent in recent school years compared to about 2 percent among the rest of the student body. after watching her son leave for school, Oct.

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Researchers at Stanford University recently set about solving this problem by creating a national database that uses a formula to put all the different state tests on a common scale. Syracuse also stands out for having the highest suspension rate among the state’s traditional school districts.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But the success rate that resulted in those savings has been questioned by some researchers, including Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, who says it is “unusually high.”. Related: New research finds it hasn’t gotten easier for poor kids to catch up.

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Challenging the Gentrocacy Compared to test scores and academic performance, people often forget about how vital civic development is, says Jilli Jung, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Schools have the potential to foster really effective citizens, Jung says. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s not always clear, however that this money goes directly to schools and parents: In Arizona, millions of dollars also went to businesses and non-school spending, a recent investigation found. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.

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

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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. A lot of us became desensitized to really horrible things.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

She chose her grandmother’s alma mater Alcorn State, after a campus visit won her over, but in the first semester of her freshman year, she had to work harder to make up the material she missed in the Holmes public schools. When her English professor assigned a research paper, “the writing lab was my best friend,” she said.

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APRIL 8, 2021

Middle school is when most American children age into the criminal justice system — every state allows for the prosecution of children as young as 12, though most set the threshold earlier, or not at all — and suspension from school is predictive of incarceration later in life. Credit: Paul Ratje for The Hechinger Report.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Credit: Kershaw County School District. Online education and remote education are two very different things, said Steve Kossakoski, CEO of the New Hampshire-based Virtual Learning Academy Charter School , or VLACS, which has been hosting free webinars for educators seeking digital-learning guidance. on April 10, 2020. “For

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. Donors to the National Parents Union include the Walton Family Foundation and the City Fund, another pro-charter group.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Race, and racial bias, can also play a role in whether families are referred to and investigated by child protective services, research suggests. Research reveals racial disparities at every step , from the numbers of calls to the child welfare hotline to the numbers of investigations and court findings of neglect. “I

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

A charter school in New Orleans. Charter schools didn’t create segregation but the charter school movement isn’t helping to end it either. A startling number, but the charter school lobby essentially responded with a version of, “So what?”. Photo: Cheryl Gerber. When Martin Luther King Jr.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” “You know the saying, ‘When you know better, you do better?’” Ezzell told me. That’s what happened.”

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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 lawsuits have pushed equity when independent schools were slow to act.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Former Vice President Joe Biden made increasing school funding central to his new education platform. Bernie Sanders has proposed tripling Title I funding for low-income schools. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. spends less.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Elizabeth Warren , a day after the fifth presidential debate in November, dozens of charter school supporters interrupted Warren’s speech to protest the presidential candidate’s plan to curb charter school growth. Warren needs to learn from black voices — but the charter school movement is not ours to defend.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

When her private school told the Simmons family they would have to shell out up to $10,000 a year for once-a-week personalized reading instruction and other services, they decided to transfer their daughter to Louisiana Key Academy. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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JULY 20, 2022

I started this research cautiously optimistic that vouchers could help. Particularly when other choice options like charter schools and inter-district enrollment are available to families and have a better track record. It’s more than the research though. We’re talking about kids’ lives.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools.

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