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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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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

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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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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AUGUST 1, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. On the metrics that many school reformers pay closest attention to, Kimberly Neal’s students racked up amazing achievements.

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MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools.

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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

JUNE 29, 2020

Years later, as a science teacher at the Casablanca American School in Morocco, I’ve realized this suppression of my identity had a lasting impact, leading to feelings of otherness and self-doubt. Like my multiracial background, my background as an educator is diverse. She will continue her education at Brown University this fall.

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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

JULY 28, 2024

However, human beings aren’t data points that can easily be changed and manipulated. As a Black man and leader in public education, I have grappled with the complexities of race and identity throughout my life. Just as systemic racism is entrenched in American culture, we need to entrench DEIA in the work of schools.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. They’re competing on an uneven playing field, with charter schools having the advantage, they say.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I took him out of public school in 4th grade. Every school I applied to seemed to have the capability to accommodate his intellectual disability needs but lacked the willingness. Eventually, I found a special education school willing to accept him. Related: School choice had a big moment in the pandemic.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I know that robust mental health and social-emotional support for students are non-negotiable in education and I applaud the new programs and resources designed to address this urgent challenge for our students. But what about the mental health of our educators? A year ago, I came across an opportunity to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Back in March, after schools closed their doors and transitioned to remote learning, one question loomed large for educators when it came to their students: How were the students feeling? The dual crisis we are currently facing — Covid-19 and systemic racism — is teaching us valuable lessons about education in America.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. One of the presenters, Dr. Ian Buchanan , shared this quote by Howard Fuller: “As educators of black, brown, and poor children—especially those of us who believe in justice—we must be able to adeptly negotiate moral contradictions.”

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APRIL 13, 2020

The Orleans Parish School Board effectively fired all its teachers almost four months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The mass firing is a case study in itself of the way educators — including the black teachers who made up approximately 70 percent of the teaching force — are often devalued in the wake of a tragedy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Mississippi policymakers have welcomed charter schools as a promising solution to low test scores and persistent achievement gaps. But what happens when an education experiment falls short of expectations? Higher Education. Related: Are rural charters viable in Mississippi? Choose as many as you like. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a collaborative convened by the National Center for Youth Law, saw the influx in federal dollars for Covid relief as an opportunity to make schools more supportive for students. Related: How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, teachers at independent schools are twice as likely to leave the profession than public school teachers. I trusted that these teachers would be there each year and I looked forward to having each one as I moved through the school, like a rite of passage.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2020

There’s no shortage of ideas among the state’s legislative body when it comes to addressing education: Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. Higher Education. Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. The state’s second rural charter will open this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Alyssa in her first-grade classroom at Mott Haven Academy Charter School, where she enrolled after moving in with a foster mother who lives near the South Bronx institution. and “What can you do to help make your school feel safe?”. Related: When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

Over the next week or so, The Hechinger Report will be publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. Something about Jeff Bezos “being a good human being but his hearing isn’t so good.” CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last 10 months our team has collaborated with an advisory council of 12 teachers of color representing districts from the League of Innovative Schools , public charter schools including an early childhood center, and private schools across the country. In the district, students of color makeup 44.4

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The website The Lens , which covers public education in New Orleans, reported that 65 percent of schools have declined in performance over the last three years. “Our

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Personalization is a growing focus for policy development, technology applications and educational marketing. Theodore and Nancy Sizer also understood the value of knowing students well, incorporating that tenet in their Coalition of Essential Schools Common Principles. The idea itself is not new.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

The surging enrollment comes with some benefits: More students mean more state funding to hire more teachers, and new homeowners pay taxes to help build new schools, like Story Creek. How do we staff schools if no one can afford to live here?” Cedar, sixth grader, Bozeman Online Charter School.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

He follows the schedule as if he’s at school,” said Woodward. Educators who enjoyed working remotely last year were invited to apply; most of the elementary teachers at the online school teach virtually full time, while the upper-grade teachers split their time between the virtual and in-person schools in the district.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Across the country, local networks known as Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are bringing together partners and resources to meet urgent needs and envision a new future for teaching and learning. When schools closed in mid-March, Kansas City was confronted by the region’s deep digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Rothschild holds weekly home visits to teach Cousins as part of Threshold, an offshoot of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences charter school. FARMINGTON, Maine — It was well after homeroom had begun in most schools in central Maine when teacher Juliana Rothschild knocked on the front door of a student’s house. “It

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That moment sits heavy on my mind because this is not an infrequent occurrence in education. Decisions and policies are often made without the input of teachers and school leaders. The policies and decisions surrounding the COVID pandemic revealed the powerlessness of teachers in the school setting. So, where do we go from here?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2018

When I was an educator, I saw firsthand how trauma can affect students, whether it was a student who experienced bullying, one who was coping with her parents’ divorce, or another who had witnessed a family member’s murder before immigrating to America with his mother, in search of safety. As educators, we know that language matters.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At some homes, she translates school emails into Spanish and answers technical questions. Then she gets down to what has become the meat of her job as a school social worker at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School: making sure her students and their families are coping with the multiple stresses of the pandemic. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Kelly Pollack works with a student in CICS West Belden, a Chicago charter school that uses multiage classrooms as part of its personalized learning model. Higher Education. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

Traditional school districts that attempt to bring a new model of education that provides personally designed lessons for students often face conflicting priorities that make it difficult to follow through, according to a new report released today. Photo: Nichole Dobo. They served many low-income and minority children.

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