The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. representative Cedric L.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

In America’s decentralized and choice-driven higher-education system — which is the envy of the world — states and the federal government support this goal with scholarships and loans, whether a student chooses to go to the University of Notre Dame, Yeshiva University or a public college or university. While the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. It’s past time the DOE issued guidance, telling schools to leave black students’ hair alone. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Late last year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. And black and brown teachers give students role models who affirm their culture. Recently, mainstream institutions began asking, Where did all the black teachers go ?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. For over three decades, Foster worked for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight center in Huntsville, Alabama. Trade Industry.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Liz Willen.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

government discovered Black literacy was directly linked to Black resistance against oppressive systems, it became costly to teach Black people to read and write, then it was criminalized. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

To succeed intellectually and emotionally, she explained, students need “strong culture, engaging learning opportunities that feel relevant and connected to students’ lives, relationships, a sense of agency, and an opportunity to express their own opinions about their learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools.

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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

MARCH 20, 2018

The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s built around a skills-based model that prioritizes student mastery, extensive community outreach and a culture that views college enrollment as an expectation rather than a long shot. Chemistry teacher Mary Norris has seen a dramatic turnaround in academics and culture at the Benito Juarez Community Academy over the last nine years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Students in a Chicago charter school work on tablets during class. The new nonprofit’s research project will get underway with $1 million in seed funding from the Strada Education Network and support from the Curry School of Education. The number of ed tech products being implemented at the same time in the same school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. While the impression is that high schoolers are more “crime-prone,” she said, middle school is when students are most at risk of arrest for non-injurious assaults. Well, you are real people.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

And leaders here are hoping that by mixing in some new ideas with research on better ways to teach and support black boys living in poverty, their brand of culturally focused, all-male education can work. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school. Special admissions schools, which often have criteria like certain test scores or auditions or portfolios. It’s certainly true for charter schools. Are there other setups that fund school choice differently?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well-financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend. Photo:Andre Perry.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Yet, emphasizing young people’s capacity to aspire can also aid neoliberal governance by forging “aspiration nations” of hard-working, burdened youth with individualist imaginings of the future and obscured consciousness of the sources of inequality or collective power in addressing them.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset. While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. A Cuban refugee herself, she led discussions with teachers on similarities between Hispanic and Southern culture. They love family. It has been scrapped.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Demand will likely grow because the supply will not: Voters in Massachusetts overwhelming rejected a ballot question last month to expand charter schools (62 percent rejected it; 38 percent supported it). Most require government subsidized Pell Grants, scholarships and other financial aid.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

“When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren’t allowed to have the same kind of sports teams [these were] important inflection points for the federal government to get involved,” the new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, said recently. I led the U.S. Department of Education from 2013 to 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Mufleh hopes to add a third school in Cleveland, Ohio in 2020; a second Georgia school recently won approval from the state. The newer schools are set up as public charter schools; the Ohio institutions will be funded primarily by a state voucher program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Department of Education on what support (if any) there will be for classroom technology — including research and funding — from the federal government during the Trump administration. It’s a lab state culture. It’s a lab state culture. The effort comes at a time when there’s little clarity from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Just one-third of students rate their school culture positively, according to data released this week by the San Francisco-based non-profit YouthTruth Student. Youth even have ideas as to how they should be governed. Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. More than 5.6 On average 29.2 average is 15.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

An influx of government money enabled schools to hire staff and launch SEL programs, which include lessons about showing empathy to others, managing emotions and developing responsible decision making. The school offers adult yoga classes, support groups and incentives for staff to participate.

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