The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Widespread improvements in educational equity and economic mobility will happen only when minority-serving and broad-access institutions receive our respect and support. Invest in the schools doing the bulk of equity work. Here are some ways we can help: 1.

Education 107

Education Advocacy Economics Private School 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. Meanwhile, most white students attend selective schools that administer tests that students must pass to be enrolled. Schools should get the resources they need to be successful with any population.

Education 92

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

High School 98

High School Charter School Economics Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

High School 111

High School Economics Psychology Political Science 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Some have been approved even while their communities were still under active school desegregation court orders, and in one case even after residents implored the federal court to step in and bar the school from opening. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

Charter School 112

Charter School Tradition Public School K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged.

Tutoring 144

Tutoring Advocacy Public School Private School 144