The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

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.

Charter School 144

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than students typically do. Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools.

Charter School 144

Charter School K-12 Middle School Archiving 144

Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2021

School districts and charter networks are facing both tremendous challenges and, simultaneously, opportunities to design and implement effective, culturally-aligned systems to support historically marginalized students. Include a research agenda designed to ensure we capture data and learnings from the collaboration.

Charter School 118

Charter School Geography Public School Cultures 118

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.

Public School 124

Public School Tradition Charter School EdTech 124

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. Parents and teachers of these students answer surveys every year so that researchers can study them.) Only one in five students is reading at grade level.

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

As I searched for the “why” behind my contradictions, I thought about research and best practices and found a disconnect between the standards expected of “urban” schools—code for schools that serve predominantly Black and Brown students—and schools that are considered “elite” and exemplar.

Pedagogy 121

Pedagogy Charter School Cultures Library 121

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. Capital City Public Charter School serves students throughout the Washington, D.C. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

Charter School 108

Charter School K-12 Middle School High School 108

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

Public School 134

Public School Civics Private School K-12 134

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2019

Even though I already had a master’s degree in teaching, I had applied for a position as an associate teacher in the Massachusetts charter school where I currently work. I was also drawn to the school’s academic track record, as its student outcomes place it among the top-performing public schools in the state.

Charter School 95

Charter School Education Public School Cultures 95

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.

Charter School 131

Charter School High School Leadership Tradition 131

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2016

That’s why educators need to measure school climate, according to “Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,” a new study in Review of Educational Research , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Charter School 111

Charter School Cultures Research Teaching 111

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.

Charter School 98

Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

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. Depression and anxiety have spiked , too.)

K-12 111

K-12 Charter School Government History 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

“As educators, we often focus on communicating what we don’t want our students to be doing in class, but we have found that just doesn’t work,” said Keith Herman, a professor in the University of Missouri College of Education who was one of the researchers in the study, in a press release. In reality, most are not.”.

Classroom Management 121

Classroom Management Middle School Charter School Psychology 121

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But I expect it from a board that has zero diversity ,” Gerry Monroe, a representative of the community activism organization the United Urban Alumni Association, told the school board at a recent meeting. Research has shown that diverse decision-making bodies are better problem solvers than homogenous ones. representative Cedric L.

Charter School 145

Charter School Middle School High School Government 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented. One consideration is that BIPOC solution providers and developers likely possess deep community and cultural expertise but often lack the necessary access to share their solutions.

EdTech 110

EdTech Charter School Cultures Pedagogy 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Still, schools may need to rely on local district funding to keep SEL programs going when the federal grants expire. Experts, however, point to years of research linking SEL to academic success and other benefits as evidence for continued investment. Don’t go it alone. Include all grades. Integrate SEL in the daily routine.

Social Justice 141

Social Justice Charter School High School Psychology 141

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.”

High School 118

High School Charter School Cultures Middle School 118

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts. But research has been mixed on whether it works. Related: Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

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.

Charter School 101

Charter School Psychology Cultures High School 101

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

She learned more about the school-to-prison pipeline and the role that strict school discipline often plays in it. That style of discipline has been a hallmark at the charter schools that defined the first part of her career. But Neal had an awakening over the last few years. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

Education 104

Education Charter School Public School High School 104

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

Charter School 97

Charter School K-12 High School Private School 97

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The research is overwhelming. Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics.

Elementary School 65

Elementary School Economics Charter School Cultures 65

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.

Charter School 127

Charter School Elementary School High School Middle School 127

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

Leadership 98

Leadership Cultures Charter School Economics 98

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.

Charter School 138

Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 138

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. Moreover, a growing body of research now shows that high-quality dual language immersion programs benefit both native English speakers and English language learners. “I cried the first time I took a test. It’s not the same.

Charter School 111

Charter School K-12 Elementary School Archiving 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color.

Education 87

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

“I’ll say up front: I am not here to offer any hard-and-fast rules or directives,” said Secretary of Education John King in prepared remarks for the National Charter Schools Conference. The racial disparities in school discipline reflect the cultural appetite to punish black children.

Charter School 72

Charter School Cultures Middle School Humanities 72

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Source: American Community Survey. Visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo.

Professional Development 114

Professional Development Charter School Private School Public School 114

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

After spending 10 years as a contract musician stringing together gigs, teaching private music lessons and performing odd jobs, I stepped into a part-time music teaching position in an urban charter school. Cultural and social relevance. Our school has committed itself to becoming a culturally inclusive organization.

Charter School 77

Charter School Tutoring Middle School Cultures 77

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“This is self-perpetuating,” said the superintendent, Patrick Sánchez, who is trying to change that culture and hangs out with students as a mentor and a coach. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “Where do you want to go to college?”

High School 101

High School Charter School Economics Leadership 101

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, student identified as Beatrice told researchers as part of a recent study published by the National Women’s Law Center. Some of the rules they describe are just plain silly.

Teaching 84

Teaching Charter School Middle School Public School 84

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Public Schools, said some would rather see schools ensuring students are proficient in reading and writing in English before teaching those skills in another language. But research shows dual-language programs may actually enhance students’ learning in English.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. And black and brown teachers give students role models who affirm their culture. And Where are the teachers of color ?

Charter School 80

Charter School Cultures Government History 80