The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Between 1993 and 2012 suicide rates doubled among black youngsters ages 5-11, while rates declined among white children in same age group, according to a 2015 article published in the academic journal JAMA Pediatrics. Schools may or may not be a part of the problem, but they most certainly have to be a part of the solution.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Amid another wave of covid infections, similar sentiments have reemerged in news articles, blog posts, and comment sections. There are currently 1,876 schools within the New York City Department of Education, including 268 charter schools. No two schools are the same.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

This has led to numerous articles calling for the recruitment of more black teachers and/or asking where all the black teachers have gone. This transcends school type. Charter schools and regular schools alike are implicated in the problem. But the flipside to those studies isn’t making as many headlines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Last month, Joseph Munno, founder of University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men (UPrep) in Rochester, NY, denied the first black valedictorian of the school, Jaisaan Lovett, the opportunity to give the ceremonial commencement speech, traditionally the preserve of valedictorians.

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

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If your professor at a public university regularly tweets out articles like “ Are Women Destroying Academia? Colleges defend professors’ rights to pursue controversial topics of discussion such as climate change, police brutality, charter schools and pornography.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2019

The ruling class, which included the Times-Picayune’ editorial board, endorsed charter schools, and encouraged their expansion in New Orleans. LA Weekly editors and reporters generally took a much more cautious and critical approach to charters, spotlighting the resistance of black students and parents.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

What is this article about?”. I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Students worked in small groups as they combed through Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution, trying to answer the questions: What provisions keep the three branches of government separate? Robertson teaches in a charter school serving many immigrant students “who came here because their parents have hope for America.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Of all the reactions to the amazing charts in the Times article, you didn’t hear much about white male power. When you fault single parenthood, you inevitably to go down a path of chastising women, culture and individual behavior. Let’s shift the scrutiny from the plight of black people to the privilege of white people.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Through Teach for America, he was assigned to teach in a charter school. After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans’ public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Casey Enright Casey Enright , who teaches at Mesa High School in Arizona, recalled a lesson he’d taught on the separation of powers. Students worked in small groups as they combed through Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution, trying to answer the questions: What provisions keep the three branches of government separate?

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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. We are never surprised and are always encouraged by black educators who make systems work—including those in charters. The report found: “A new $2.3

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

In 2012, the state department of education and the New Orleans Public Schools established Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) goals, which aimed to steer contracts to underrepresented groups, including black and women contractors. The state reported that $146.2 million in DBE contracts had been awarded as of March 2015.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. School poses a lot of stressful moments, but how children (and teachers) react to them can make all the difference. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

One of the places that I first encountered where I was like, ‘Oh, there's some kind of interesting teaching and learning here,’ was a charter school that I visited in Southern California, and they had adopted Google Docs relatively early and were making really great use of it. And most teachers are patient pragmatists.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

a virtual charter school in Cameron, Wisconsin, for seventh grade. The school was already set up with a mostly virtual curriculum pre-pandemic. She didn’t really try to post videos or news articles or anything like that to help us,” Livingston said. I posted an assignment in [Google] Classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

But what if public schools raised their own money through decentralized finance and the crypto-economy, maybe so the rest of us didn’t have to support these institutions by paying taxes? Universities are curators of content,” Saraf says. That’s an idea pitched in a recent blog post co-written by Saraf and entrepreneur Scott Meyer.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Now she teaches at the Tulsa Honor Academy , a charter school in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood that promotes college readiness. “You knew you might never see them again.” She taught history and American government at Cookson Hills for ten years, beginning her MAHG studies during that time. I watch them spread their wings.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

“I’m afraid of her not succeeding in school,” said Kerrach, of his older daughter; he adds that his wife speaks Moroccan Arabic, not French, to the girls at home. Like most of the people interviewed for this article, Kerrach spoke to me in French, through a translator.) Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s a good representation of what you see in the classroom,” says Jodalis Gonzalez, a senior at Boston Prep, a charter school in Hyde Park. Most educators interviewed for this article said they saw value, albeit in varying degrees, to the state assessment. I heard similar things from students.

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Letters and Ink Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Up until my junior year of high school, I went to school online. I begged my parents to let me go to a real school, and I got enrolled at a local charter school. I got hired about a week before school started, and learned about the summer reading only a couple of days before kids came back.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Eventually, the two found housing outside the Temecula Valley Unified School District her son had attended for years. Chalkbeat journalist Lori Higgins contributed to this article. The post Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

McMahons effort comes as school vouchers and education savings accounts are making gains in states across the country. Researchers and advocates draw a connection to charter schools, emphasizing that charters offer an example of how choice options might shape up. Isidore charter school. That's how the St.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

asked an NPR article responding to last week’s shattering decision in Janus v. Teachers are walking off the job after a $6,100 pay raise was rushed through the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin. Photo by J Pat Carter/Getty Images. “Is Is this Supreme Court decision the end of teachers unions?” percent), Asian (8.9

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

“I don’t think I can think of a white family where I’ve ever seen it arise,” Chris Gottlieb, co-director of New York University’s Family Defense Clinic, which represents clients in child welfare cases, said of these types of school-driven investigations. An intimidation tool? .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. The school has made steady progress in increasing diversity on campus. Students at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

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JUNE 15, 2024

Read more in an article about the day of action in Bleeding Heartland. One teacher just quit his job at a local charter school because the board and PTO removed a bunch of books from his room. Everyone was so encouraging and supportive of the work. He chose to quit so even in New Mexico some of this is happening.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

And even if an elementary school teacher got administrator approval and parent support to offer sexual health classes, he or she would find that curricular resources for the early grades are severely lacking. FLASH was developed by the Family Planning Program of Public Health – Seattle and King County and includes $75.99

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Businessman Paul Campbell speaks before students at the Academy of Seminole, a charter school he founded in rural Oklahoma. Campbell said the “thesis” of the school is that “on day one of your ninth grade, literally hour one … we start talking about what you want to do with your life.” Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. to remember who was standing in front of them, and what they learned, on Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Hillsdale boasts a national network of affiliated charter schools, and one of its former professors helped revise South Dakota’s social studies standards along the lines of the 1776 Curriculum. Pennridge leaders declined to respond to questions for this article.) We lost eight of 18 classroom teachers in one summer.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2017

Bilingual Public Charter School. and founder of DC Bilingual Public Charter School, said she’s pleased that dual language is catching on, but worries that Latino students could get left behind. Beatriz Otero, founder, D.C. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Privilege does wonders,” Otero said.

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