The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. Yet the advertising belies these schools’ records serving students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

After years of disappointing, confusing and uneven results, charter schools are generally getting better at educating students. These schools, which are publicly financed but privately run, still have shortcomings and a large subset of them fail students, particularly those with disabilities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 23, 2020

I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 019 – Milwaukee Jewish Day School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The promise of greater efficiency has been an attractive argument for charters as states struggle to keep up with ever rising educational expenses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. All summer, Miller struggled to fix a failing HVAC system the high school couldn’t afford — just as JPS found $600,000 for two new charter schools in the city. JPS has problems: 21 failing schools, a 67.7

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. They are some of the nearly 15,000 Philly students enrolled in cyber charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2019

Underscoring just how segregated our public education system remains some 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education , New York City’s most selective public high school made headlines — and not the good kind — when it announced that it offered seven of 900 available slots for the Class of 2023 to black students. .

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results. But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Students spend less time on foundational numeracy compared with what they spend on reading; elementary teachers often receive less training in how to teach math effectively; and schools use fewer interventions for students who need extra math support. Many American students struggle in math. How many more treats does Lyle need?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. He was formerly the principal of Edna Karr High School. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. Change, but what kind?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Every child at their pre-K-8 school, Belmont-Cragin, has one of these so-called individual learner profiles.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2020

While the pace at which the coronavirus has forced schools to transition to online services is unprecedented, the act of providing these services online is not. And that includes doing special education online. In normal times, schools contract with PresenceLearning to outsource certain special education services.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As the Watonga school system’s Indian education director, Hollie Youngbear works to help Native American students succeed — a job that begins with getting them to school. She makes sure students have clothes and school supplies. It is reprinted with permission. WATONGA, Okla. — 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Department of Education, only two percent of teachers are African American men, yet African American students make up at least 16 percent of the country’s student population. This reality has serious implications for the country’s educational landscape overall, as well as for the growing number of students of color.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

Board of Education. As schools were segregated, Black and Brown teachers were displaced by the thousands as a result of racist policies that devastated communities of color and de-prioritized high-quality teaching and learning practices developed by teachers of color. Princeton School District (OH).

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? Related: What if public schools never reopen? What if we can’t change at scale the distribution of academic outcomes among disparate groups of students?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. Education was a weapon for the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2019

Students at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School benefit from personalized learning and two hours per day of small group instruction. The longer students attend Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School, the better they do. By the end of middle school, though, they’re doing better than their peers in District 13.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. Most notably, it became clear that for Black women educators in this study, being a teacher is more of an identity than a job title. Last year, the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

A new effort is trying to bring a fresh approach to gifted education—and it doesn’t take place in a school building. It’s a homeschool curriculum and support system, with a somewhat unusual boarding school option that involves taking small groups of students on a kind of educational road trip.

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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. However, U.S.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On this episode of the Charter Schools Superstars podcast , Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller broke down what AI can do and what’s science fiction. But how can using AI in professional learning and development help support educators ? AI supplements existing educator collaboration. Definitely not.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling. Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s why Koehler is trying everything she can to retain and recruit students in the face of myriad complications, from racism to game theory, and why educators and policymakers elsewhere ought to care whether she and her staff of 24 succeed. That, in turn, can lead to fewer families signing up — and even less money.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements. Yet their expansion has been relatively modest in comparison to that of charter schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world. “A Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Public education in America is under attack on multiple fronts. The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

This story about the foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2021

This past year has forced schools to make significant changes to their practices. It has also prompted teachers and administrators to reimagine education and to rearticulate a new vision for their schools — as I’ve seen at “ no excuses ” charter schools, which I have spent the last decade studying and observing.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

“Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. Higher Education. About half enter the middle school performing below grade level in math or reading or both. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Erin and Sean Jett, whose house is so nearby they hear the school bell ring, did not have school-aged children at the time. When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Which is why now, more than 10 years later, Emma Jett will be a fifth-grader at the Dallas school this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has encouraged librarians to follow social distancing and manage traffic flow in stacks, nearly a quarter of school-level librarians told the AASL in an August survey that their school’s library would not be open or used at all. Credit: Jessica Shearer.

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