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AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. Sign up for our newsletter.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

of Education, 2018. Education Department suddenly had a big pot of money to give away to “innovations” in education. Big chunks went to building new KIPP charter schools and training thousands of new Teach for America recruits to become teachers. Why is innovation so hard in education?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. The seven schools also emphasized student-teacher relationships and built a caring community.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bryan Martinez, a senior at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., charter school may be a front-runner in providing financial education, but in recent years, many others have followed suit. students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color. Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

As an ESL student and a child from an immigrant, economically disadvantaged family raised in blue-collar northern Ohio, I know first-hand the power a good book can have on a child who feels different and inferior from everyone around him. Students who are economically disadvantaged, black, Hispanic, and have IEPs (i.e.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. 16 — percent of students at Noble Minds in special education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. After graduation, Morales and Martinez got married and trained for careers in education that led them back to their alma mater. At 7 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

There are 60,000 fewer public education jobs than there were before the recession began in 2007, according to an analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report by the think tank Economic Policy Institute. A shortfall of more than 300,000 jobs in public education. Problem was, that was a myopic view of the world.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

Protesters demands for an end to systemic racism must include demands for an end to state support of private schools that, by gobbling up scarce financial resources, deprive Black and Brown children of a quality public education and deprive all children the benefits of diversity and inclusion. School boards are listening.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. Sidny Szybnski is a junior at Inspire, the Idaho Connections Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Increasingly, teachers are also caught in the crosshairs of debates politicizing curriculums and school reopenings.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Harlem Children’s Zone, the renowned nonprofit providing social and academic support to low-income families in Central Harlem, has announced a new initiative to replicate its community-based model of family and educational services nationwide. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. And the federal grants are only for five years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Arise Academy in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward is part of the city’s diffuse network of nearly 80 charter schools. NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

In recent years, there’s been a surge in new Montessori schools in the United States, fueled, in part, by new state laws that are expanding the numbers of publicly funded, but privately run charter schools. The post Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

The time has come for the very foundations of our country, good and bad, to face a reckoning; we’re dealing with long-standing racial disparities and injustices while trying to attain equity and equality, and the educational system is where it starts. Both perpetuate economic disparities and racial injustice. I wholeheartedly agree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

I attended high-poverty neighborhood public schools. But my grandmother, a loving woman with a third-grade education who could read and write only her name, created a space in our small house where I could study and read. Like most new school chiefs, I immediately dug into the data to find out what was happening.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. Education researchers and the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

It goes without saying that parents who shell this money out believe that their children will be getting a better education in exchange for all that money. In fact, in several grades, students with similar demographic backgrounds did better in math when they attended public schools. But what if they’re wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

percent fewer public school students a decade from now. “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. “Nobody is talking about this.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In over 20 years, the problem has escalated, according to data from the Mississippi Department of Education. Cuts to education funding, low teacher pay, and a dwindling supply of teachers interested in working in the rural, predominantly low-income and African-American Delta all contribute to the dilemma.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. Department of Education tracks.

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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. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TRIES TO HELP.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

We know firsthand of several situations where, had some people not been in place, we would have lost several children,” said Kay Warfield, of the Alabama Department of Education, who directs the coordinators from the state level. Some individual schools had absentee rates up to 48 percent. Read the series.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Although the city is producing more high school graduates, fewer of them are heading off to college. Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. I’ve been focused on the economic reasons.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In an economically disadvantaged part of Charlotte, N.C., there is a public school with the highest percentage of Title 1 students in the district. Less than a mile away is a charter school that could have become its competition, luring away students and leaving the district school with fewer funds to tackle the same set of challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023. But that hasn’t been proven.

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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. Jonathan Johnson, founder of Rooted School. Many educators are frightened at the prospect of giving them control,” he added.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

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. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

If the number of black-owned firms in Birmingham was proportionate to the percentage of college-educated residents who are black, 830 more businesses in the city would be black-owned. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. Underrepresentation Based on Education. Trade Industry.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. In my favorite phrasing of that view: It’s common for parents — no matter their level of education — to take pride in reading bedtime stories to their children. Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

The fallacy of education as a level playing field is something that large swaths of the public have known for a long time. Made more apparent in recent years with the widespread expansion of school-choice policies nationwide, the latest college admissions scandal may be the final nail in the coffin of the myth of meritocracy in U.S.

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