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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The teacher can’t do two jobs at once, but, if there was a way for these students, maybe through the county, to have their own teacher that’s just teaching them.”. “At a virtual charter school in Cameron, Wisconsin, for seventh grade. The school was already set up with a mostly virtual curriculum pre-pandemic.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. But those networks never cross over.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said. The percentage of black students rose from 55 percent to 68 percent.

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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. What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2023

Also included were programs that addressed ethical and civic values. Explicitly teaching non-cognitive skills to children, especially in low-income communities, appealed to many educators and policymakers. When these lessons were led by school counselors or outsiders, they didn’t work as well.) A backlash followed.

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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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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

All of these teachers were drawn to MAHG by its focus on primary documents, and most began teaching more consistently from primary documents after beginning the program. Casey Enright Casey Enright , who teaches at Mesa High School in Arizona, recalled a lesson he’d taught on the separation of powers. How Fragile is This System?

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

All of these teachers were drawn to MAHG by its focus on primary documents, and most began teaching more consistently from primary documents after beginning the program. Robertson teaches her government courses entirely from primary documents. But just teaching what’s in the textbook is not going to convince them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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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. In this post I’ll explain why teaching Question Two, “What were they thinking?” helps students to develop a critical civic disposition: listening to people who we expect to disagree with.

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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

Angela Burks Hill, allows certain individuals to receive an exemption from teacher certification qualifications, including those who enter classrooms through a nontraditional teaching route. 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. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching. Credit: Laina Cox.

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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? Black children are twice as likely as white children to be spanked in school. Hitting a child doesn’t speak well about the quality of teaching in a school. Remember that youth are part of the public.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers Union, wants schools closed. 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: Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools.

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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

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

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

Last week, a Republican state representative introduced a bill that would not only make future walkouts illegal, but ban teachers who participate from ever teaching in the state. For most of the past two decades, those battles have been waged primarily among East Coast liberals over standardized testing and charter schools.

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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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