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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — The central tenet of nearly any successful recruitment strategy is to emphasize the positives and downplay problems, but Josh Densen was engaging in a different kind of hard sell at a school tour back in early November. I believe Bricolage is a school for all kids, but not all adults.”.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2019

Growing up on the south side of Chicago with parents who spent 75 cents of every dollar they made on my college education, I still took out loans to graduate from Mt. In fact, only one in four will graduate with a strong first job or enter graduate school. Related: Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college.

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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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APRIL 7, 2023

But some educators say the expectations Tennessee has set for its students are too high. A report from the education nonprofit NWEA suggests they’re struggling more than older students because the pandemic struck when they would have been learning foundational reading skills in kindergarten. The research on retention is mixed.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. The takeover in Jackson “ offers an interesting new model, departing from the more commonly used state takeover approach across dozens of school districts ,” Wong said. It was funded by federal money.

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MAY 13, 2019

“In school finance, this is as exciting as it gets.” Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, described official figures confirming a “full recovery” in education spending in 2015-16, seven years after the recession. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces. Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility.

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