The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Big chunks went to building new KIPP charter schools and training thousands of new Teach for America recruits to become teachers. But programs in the highest tier were supposed to have a proven track record and only two of the four — the KIPP charter school network and Reading Recovery — generated stronger test scores.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If Fairfield County didn’t offer a virtual option, some families would leave the district entirely and instead enroll in an online charter school. Related: Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual. But administrators said they didn’t have much of a choice.

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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. Higher Education. But Neal had an awakening over the last few years. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The organization awarded multi-year grants in 18 communities to launch schools, like one that is a partnership between the Grand Rapids Public Museum and the Michigan city’s school district, or a charter school in Washington, D.C., Related: Teach like it’s summer school all year long.

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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 17, 2020

“Those losses are tending to be more pronounced for children of color, or children living in poverty, than for white children or children living in greater privilege,” said Katherine Prince, vice president of strategic foresight at KnowledgeWorks , a national education policy organization.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

Bilingual Public Charter School and Mundo Verde Public Charter School had 832 and 1,295 children on their respective waitlists, respectively. While no integration effort is ever simple —especially one that requires schools to implement a new instructional model — today’s conditions are encouraging.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

. “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. When schools close — forever. “Nobody is talking about this.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

When schools get it right, whether they are traditional public schools or public charter schools, let’s figure out what’s working,” said Clinton to loud boos over the mention of charter schools, which are publicly-funded, independently run public schools that often employ non-unionized teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Bey went through the fellowship program in 2017, and the data he saw showed him that, although his four children were in schools in a safe neighborhood in Oakland, a majority of students at the school his two elder children attended did not perform well on math and reading state exams. 126 on the waiting list.

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The Hechinger Report

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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JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. The feds must also shut down charters that are public in name only.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don’t have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

. — On Monday morning, a standing-room-only crowd of 200 gathered at the White House to talk about remaking the American high school. Secretary of Education John B. told educators, policy experts, and students that the next generation of high schools must “give every student an opportunity to have a vision for their own future.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Even if graduating high school seniors say they are only delaying their educations, and will eventually go to college, “their likelihood of actually enrolling a year or two years later is lower, and therefore their chances of getting a degree is lower,” said Watson Scott Swail, president and CEO of the Educational Policy Institute.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2019

A new study suggests that mindfulness education — lessons on techniques to calm the mind and body — can reduce the negative effects of stress and increase students’ ability to stay engaged, helping them stay on track academically and avoid behavior problems.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Julia Freeland Fisher is the director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute. The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) released a report last week warning that online and blended learning schools are struggling. In fact, some of the largest urban districts (such as D.C.

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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. He continued, “Recognition of the need is certainly there.”.

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JUNE 7, 2016

The report , from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that used this math program, made by DreamBox Learning. and 3 percentile points better on standardized assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

According to a 2018 Education Next poll , parents rate 15 percent of their local school’s teachers as “unsatisfactory,” which suggests that over the course of their children’s education, parents are likely to face the problem of an unsatisfactory teacher. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

As more schools scurry to bring technology to the classroom, some say dodgy programs are growing like weeds — and they threaten the existence of successful programs. One of the largest blended learning networks, Rocketship Education, a California-grown charter school network, for example, has been criticized for expanding too fast.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2019

In exchange for a significant investment of federal funding, states like Tennessee would volunteer to enact new policies to raise standards, increase accountability, build new data systems and lift caps on the number of public charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

A college prep class at Match Charter is devoted to figuring out financial aid. This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Kim Palmer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. Related: Young and inexperienced, a new principal tries to turn around a New Orleans charter school. These new tasks were added.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Since the integration order, white families — who still made up the majority of Longview’s population — had left the school district in droves for private schools, and white voters actively resisted paying to renovate the district’s schools. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Families and officials have also worked together to educate realtors. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. In high schools such as ours, the future of learning is distance learning.”. Charles Lacy, Holmes County Central High School.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

McMahons effort comes as school vouchers and education savings accounts are making gains in states across the country. Researchers and advocates draw a connection to charter schools, emphasizing that charters offer an example of how choice options might shape up. Isidore charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. Its opening ends the city’s five-year run as the only all-charter school district in the nation. Charter schools receive public funding, but are independently run.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support. Our education system is completely racist.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Related: School choice had a big moment in the pandemic but is it what parents want for the long run? Speakers at last week’s conference, sponsored by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and G overnance, offered no such dissenting views. Supreme Court.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. The schools, the staff — they know it. You talk to anybody at a school or staff about the need, and whether they have what they need to meet the needs of these kids.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

In her plan , she notes that she would “fight to require states to include steps toward inclusion in their [Every Student Succeeds Act] state plans and to invest in technical assistance for schools and teachers toward true inclusion.” Special education was never supposed to be a place but rather a service.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

And making schools more flexible is a top XQ Institute priority. The prospect of more freedom appealed to science teacher Nikki Wallace when she joined the faculty of Crosstown High School, an XQ Institute partner and charter school in Memphis, Tennessee, which opened in 2018.

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