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

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

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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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This new cohort continues to expand the diversity and scale of breakthrough tools and models transforming education across the United States – from Broward County, Florida, to Newburgh, NY to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools , NY. Copper River School District , AK.

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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

JULY 23, 2024

Student and teacher absenteeism, special education referrals, mental health complications and violence within and outside schools are all on the rise as student enrollment and state funding are in free fall. Compounding these challenges, federal pandemic relief education funding (known as ESSER) ends in September 2024.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 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 005 – Mabel Rush Elementary School.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 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 check-ins with educators all over. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Thank you, Dan McDowell , for sharing how the Grossmont Union High School District in California is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 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- to 15-minute check-ins with educators all over. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Mississippi Superintendent of Education Carey Wright. It’s the end of the school year, and the Mississippi Department of Education is expecting budget cuts to everything but the state’s education funding formula MAEP, even though Gov. Mississippi education keeps Wright occupied. It’s home now.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Increasingly, teachers are also caught in the crosshairs of debates politicizing curriculums and school reopenings. Now our schools and educators are gearing up for a year of doing more than ever to support students’ well-being and social and emotional learning (SEL). Related: New advances in measuring social-emotional learning.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools. Despite its long track record, the Montessori Method is actually a fresh and innovative answer to many of the questions being asked in the modern educational sphere. I’d never learned to do that before.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Students of color perform better academically, and are more likely to stay in school, when they are exposed to teachers of their race or ethnicity. “A

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These students carried those outside stressors into the classroom when in-person schooling resumed. However, when it comes to sources of mental health struggles, schools themselves are not blameless. In Detroit, almost half of the student population attends a charter school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To them, loving and teaching our youth was a great honor despite the devaluation educators often experience. As an educator, I work within and around systems that are designed to lock out historically marginalized communities; this is why I lead and educate through a DEI lens.

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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’ve worked in six schools in seven years. In my first school, the workload was unbearable. My teaching career has been turbulent.

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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

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Rite of Passage , the chain that manages Crescent Leadership Academy, then determined he wasn’t a good fit for the job.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2016

He convinces them to stay, he says, by tailoring their education to their interests. Cook, who leads the Taylor County School District , was named one of the top “ 20 Educators to Watch ” last year by the National School Boards Association and the Consortium for School Networking, both nonprofit professional organizations for educators.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

How do you fix a broken, failing school where student achievement, attendance and graduation rates are rock bottom? Education experts argue over this a lot. One idea has been to bring in a new principal and make drastic changes to turn the school around quickly like the way corporate turnaround artists revive a bankrupt company.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Some experts and educators worry the reading reform movement has left older students behind.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The term refers to schools that are collaboratively designed and run by teams of teachers, who have the freedom and authority to make decisions on everything from curriculum to budget and personnel. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

In-person schooling provided an environment for students with cognitive or physical challenges to be fully supported with personalized instruction, tailored supports, and customized technologies. Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship). Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, I was eager to find a way to help students retain knowledge from the prior school year and practice their math skills over the summer. Related: The next generation of science education means more doing. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But he doesn’t like it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

A friend suggested a nearby early childhood education center in Chicago’s historic Logan Square neighborhood might be able to help him and his little girl. He quickly realized school officials were not only concerned about his daughter’s well-being and education, but about his. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

When I first became an education journalist back in 2011, there was a lot of talk about individualized instruction, particularly by using educational software to tailor subjects for each student. It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

But it could very well stand as a movement for students against educators who harass them. Feinberg is a powerful figure in education, leading as he does a network of more than 200 charter schools that teach approximately 90,000 students. The school is part of the Success Academy network of charters led by Eva S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The school is one of 10 winners of the XQ: The Super School Project competition and will be awarded $10 million from the XQ Institute, an initiative designed to encourage schools to invent new ways to update and redesign America’s high schools, which it argues “remain frozen in time.”. XQ is led by former U.S.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The pair planned to ensure that the school would reflect the diversity of the Somerville Public Schools, in which about 42 percent of students are Latino, 10 percent are black, 37 percent are white and 43 percent come from low-income households. The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country.

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