The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

She had taken and retaken the ACT, trying to get a score high enough to get into college, with a scholarship. The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. Money and attention turned to the new, privately run schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

NEW ORLEANS — Fights were keeping 17-year-old Symphony Lee out of high school, and off the graduation track. Lee spoke from the principal’s office at The Net Charter High School on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard here, a street famous for its ties to legendary black musicians, including Buddy Bolden and Professor Longhair. “I’d

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. Her uncle turned around in the front passenger seat.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2021

This past year has forced schools to make significant changes to their practices. It has also prompted teachers and administrators to reimagine education and to rearticulate a new vision for their schools — as I’ve seen at “ no excuses ” charter schools, which I have spent the last decade studying and observing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Matt and the school’s 21 other students — many of whom, like Matt, abused drugs for years — face a daily struggle to stay clean. Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Related: Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment. Charter schools were established, in part, as laboratories of innovation to help support district improvement. It found a perfect partner in a district school just a mile down the road. The partner was the Jeremiah E.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — It was homecoming week, and for the first time there was a buzz in the halls of KIPP Renaissance Charter High School about Friday’s big football game. Students were discussing plans to go, and alumni were coming by the school in the city’s 9th Ward to buy tickets. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

It wasn’t long into Damon Holmes’ tenure as new principal of Malcolm X Shabazz High School this fall that Sharon Cook, an administrator at Shabazz, knew the school and students were going to be okay under the new guy. high schools. high schools? Principal Damon Holmes talks to junior Latifah Hinds.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There are significant differences between schools where children start at or above grade level and where children start below grade level Schools where students enter at or above grade level Schools where students enter below grade level Schools where students enter below grade level, but students grow at least 1.3

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. But at this school, that’s not enough. Capital City Public Charter School serves students throughout the Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She attended the city’s Audubon Montessori School and Benjamin Franklin High School, where she took an introduction to teaching class at the age of 17. She also learned from her mother, who spent more than 30 years teaching at New Orleans’ John McDonogh High School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. 1 to wait an entire year to start school. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

Schoolwide, the share of students who were chronically absent declined from 35 percent in March 2023 to 23 percent in March 2024 — one of the steepest declines among Massachusetts high schools. But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs. You get farther behind.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A Mathematica study of 480 low-performing schools found that the federally funded turnaround efforts failed to boost math or reading scores or high school graduation or college enrollment rates. It seemed that the whole notion of quick school turnarounds was a misguided failure. The results weren’t great.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That's how long it took Laura to walk from her home to her high school two blocks away one sunny April morning. In the past, Laura's mother Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a preschool teacher at All Five in Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood, would have called in Laura's absence to the high school. MENLO PARK, Calif.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. Schools interested in anything besides college still aren’t seen as rigorous. Jonathan Johnson, founder of Rooted School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

School district leaders there, many of whom started their careers in small-town classrooms, now grapple with big-city problems: large class sizes, stretched budgets, crowded school buildings and too few staff, especially those with the cultural and language skills to serve this region’s diversifying student base.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She connects students in the small urban school district to counselors, social services and therapy. She spends most of her day walking the halls of Fairfield Preparatory High School, a 7-12 grade school in Fairfield, Alabama. Pictured is the front door of Thompson High School in the Alabaster, Alabama.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Every student at Mingus Union High School in Cottonwood, Ariz. However, last year the school decided to take a different direction in categorizing students. She had missed a lot of school due to a medical ailment and her grades suffered as a result. “It Related: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

The charter school, which serves kindergarten through eighth graders, is the second in a chain started by Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart. Lynda Resnick, owner of The Wonderful Company on the charter schools she and her husband have opened in California’s Central Valley. They own The Wonderful Company, the $4.6

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

DeAndre Arnold has attended the Barbers Hill Independent School District his entire life; in high school, he grew his hair into locs. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School gave multiple detentions to twin sisters Deanna and Mya Cook for their hair extensions and prevented them from attending their junior prom in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Kwame Owusu-Kesse, the CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, adjusts the uniform of an eighth grader at the organization’s Promise Academy I charter school in Harlem in 2018. Drexel is the lead partner in the grant, which encompasses seven public schools, including one charter school, in a two-square-mile area.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. How do you assess schools using a letter grade based primarily on test scores?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

That style of discipline has been a hallmark at the charter schools that defined the first part of her career. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said. Schools vary, but in schools where teachers have more voice, there is better retention.” In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A “I was tired of sitting back so that white people could feel comfortable.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” The experiences and perspectives of Black and Latino students I taught at a Massachusetts charter school are very different from those of my Moroccan students. Credit: Collin Cherubim.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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