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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. About 30 percent of students are white, 26 percent are Black, 24 percent are Hispanic and 12 percent are Asian.

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

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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STUDENT VOICE: College students struggle to get academic accommodations they need to succeed

The Hechinger Report

I took quality notes in class, worked tirelessly on problem sets and sought extra help from my professor and tutors. To do this, institutional accessibility policies should be standardized, synchronized with K-12 state policies and made transparent and understandable to students. I just needed more time.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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