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

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2024

Schools nationwide celebrate Black History Month enthusiastically, yet voice concerns about whether Pride Month should be recognized. Staff members urge schools to prioritize hiring diverse educators, yet advocate against using school budgets to update school facilities for all bodies. Does that sound hard?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Schools that serve Native American students have a history of failure. In 2006, the Native American Community Academy (NACA) launched as a charter school in Albuquerque with the aim of increasing college enrollment in tribal communities, partly by incorporating native culture into the curriculum.

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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. Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

She had missed a lot of school due to a medical ailment and her grades suffered as a result. “It Mingus Union reinforces an aspect of American culture that has educators believing they can teach students by punishing and shaming them. Related: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism. It isn’t right.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs. Related: Proof Points: The chronic absenteeism puzzle Across district and charter schools in Oakland, California, chronic absenteeism skyrocketed from 29 percent pre-pandemic to 53 percent in 2022-23. You get farther behind.”

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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. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern. But this conclusion misses the forest for the trees.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less! The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. representative Cedric L.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. Espinoza helps restore the founders’ view of K-12 education, and Justice Alito’s concurring opinion in particular calls out the history of anti-Catholic bias of Blaine amendments.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. It’s not the same.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

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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. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2016

For instance AROS put forth a six-point platform that the national coalition has rallied behind including: greater investments in public schools and development of “sustainable community schools” that offer culturally relevant curricula, restorative practices and wrap-around services.

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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. Black history will be added to standards when black teachers are given real chances to succeed.

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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. Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Related: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. Alabama can stand a remedial course in slavery and black history. The manifestation of logic can also be found in art, culture, business and religion. Our families were strong, our country had a direction.” Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. School districts trying to hide actual discipline rates through practices such as masking expulsions as transfers will not be tolerated,” Thurmond said.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. School District. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As caregivers of the future, it is crucial that we are aware of what and who our country does not want our students to know and help them discover the truth of their history for themselves. Two months later, Mildred D.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Aspiration at Launch I first learned of Launch during my days as a high school teacher when Launch’s Capetonian principal visited my Newark, New Jersey classroom during an educator fellowship where he was learning about US charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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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

MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. It is the school pride,” he said. But it’s also the deep history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I think that kind of change in thinking has happened at the school in recent years.”. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools. Sometimes we can allow ourselves to be limited by stereotypes. A sign inside an AVID elective classroom tries to motivate students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Schools would also be open on Saturdays and through the summer. Another issue is that black students need to have their culture celebrated, which schools run by white females do not do,” he said. Only by being proud of their history can students reach their highest levels of achievement.”. The moral imperative.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

It turns out that some of them dissuaded homeowners from enrolling children in PUSD , contributing to the exodus to private schools and, more recently, charter schools. Changing negative perceptions that date back to school desegregation during the 1970s hasn’t been easy, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school’s budget has been impacted by its financial disadvantage as a Type 1 Charter School, or a startup, which means its charter organization is responsible for building renovations and costs. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 7, 2024

, we gave a presentation, we went to presentations — it was two full days of history teaching nerds hanging out and talking all things social studies. Students had learned about Native Americans and their history of conflict with settlers, and about the Indian wars of the late 1800s. After a series of battles against U.S.

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