The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. An assistant teacher secretly recorded the incident.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

These defeats have been discouraging to educators who feel their contributions to the state’s economic and civic well-being have been overlooked. Teachers are responsible for grooming your next doctors, your next lawyers, your leaders,” said Jason Jossell, the band director in the Quitman County School District.

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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. At the beginning of the school year, she said, students in her Civics class were told to watch the news and comment on what they learned using Google Classroom.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Civic engagement is at the foundation of the ExCITe Center’s work, and Kim is constantly brokering partnerships with individual schools, teachers, and community groups; the EdClusters work is a natural extension. YoungMoo Kim Director, ExCITe Center at Drexel University. But those networks never cross over.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed. “And

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

The research has sparked recent interest as some districts and charter schools experiment with new strategies to integrate schools without resorting to practices like the forced busing that spurred protests among both white and black parents in earlier decades.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 13, 2024

It was aired on their show “Busted Pencils,” which is dedicated to teachers, students, and public schools. We talked about charters, vouchers, testing, and how to get involved. A few days ago, I joined a discussion with Dr. Tim Slekar and Dr. Johnny Lupinacci about the current state of public education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. We must create opportunities to practice what students learn in schools. Education takes away the oxygen that allows the fire of violence to burn.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Also included were programs that addressed ethical and civic values. Much of the drive to teach older children soft skills began in urban charter schools, which were were finding success with what is often called character building, teaching kids how to be responsible and resilient.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. Nearly 450 have signed on.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it? You need more than strong feelings—you need institutional knowledge to engage in civic life effectively.” My students ask, ‘Well, what’s the right answer?’

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it? You need more than strong feelings—you need institutional knowledge to engage in civic life effectively.” My students ask, ‘Well, what’s the right answer?’

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. helps students to develop a critical civic disposition: listening to people who we expect to disagree with. The post 4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse appeared first on 4QM Teaching.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

According to a 2018 Education Next poll , parents rate 15 percent of their local school’s teachers as “unsatisfactory,” which suggests that over the course of their children’s education, parents are likely to face the problem of an unsatisfactory teacher.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

High school graduates and GED applicants would have to pass at least 60 percent of the civics portion of the naturalization test used by federal immigration officials under SB 2033 , which was proposed by Sen. Students would be allowed to carry and use sunscreen at school without permission from a parent or physician under B.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2025

At a panel during SXSW EDU last week, Dashiell Young-Saver, an AP Statistics teacher at IDEA South Flores, a public charter school in San Antonio, Texas, suggested that schools can learn from his approach to curriculum development. After classes, students were surveyed on what they wanted to see taught.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids? Adults also have to believe civic participation is a value and outcome that’s to be measured and rated. Student and family satisfaction contextualizes how they are perceived and treated.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

In addition, kids who are not in school need looking after, and parents who can’t afford a daycare provider may stay home from work, resulting in a loss of income. Related: COLUMN: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

There have been other celebrities who’ve opened charter schools in the past, such as former basketball player, now sports analyst, Jalen Rose; entertainment mogul Sean “P. LeBron’s investments in people and community separate him from charter leaders who don’t build upon the inherent value in local people or their institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

But civics teachers can’t afford not to address Trump’s racist behaviors, especially his recent bigoted remarks on Jan. I teach civics. There is more critical thinking that civics teachers can encourage. . Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement .

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. Students here are free to attend schools in neighboring districts or charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Students walk to class at a California charter school. Educational leaders must take responsibility for instilling basic civic practices and virtues in their students immediately, or they may lose the option to autocrats who have other ideas on how to run a country. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For most of the past two decades, those battles have been waged primarily among East Coast liberals over standardized testing and charter schools. Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District. “I

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