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

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

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

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. Higher Education. Walters, NBER Working Paper No. 25796 May 2019. Proof Points.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. During the school year prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 67 pre-kindergarten seats for every 100 public-school kindergarten students.

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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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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 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

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Coahoma County will be home to the first rural charter school in the state. Rural charter schools are often seen as a threat to the scant resources available for rural public schools. The first rural charter school in Mississippi will open next August in the Delta town of Clarksdale. Higher Education.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? June Ahn, New York University professor.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the first story, or revelation, the overarching theme is the stunning amount of sharing that went on about this elite group (roughly the top 20 percent of all charter schools, the schools that add roughly a year-and-a-half of learning for every year a student spends there). . It really didn’t have to turn out like it did.

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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

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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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 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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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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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. More than 330 schools now use the Summit Learning Platform, designed by the Summit charter school network in California and Washington.).

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2020

During a back-to-school supply distribution day at KIPP TEAM Academy, a charter school in Newark, New Jersey, students picked up books they could read at home. Skylar Primm, teacher, High Marq Environmental Charter School. Credit: Jessica Shearer. Credit: Jessica Shearer. So far it’s going great!”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

Board of Education that schools segregated by race did not provide an equal education. Students could no longer be barred from a school because of the color of their skin. School choice plays a role in recent segregation Why is segregation creeping back up again? Even the ‘white’ schools in L.A.

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The Hechinger Report

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

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

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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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted traditional classroom instruction, but it has not stopped schools from fostering meaningful connections and engaging in robust, student-centered teaching and learning. What are the most pressing challenges facing school districts at this moment? Brown, Reynoldsburg City Schools (Ohio).

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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

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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

JANUARY 1, 2018

Montessori schools have many loyal devotees and they’re certainly rising in popularity among American parents. But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? By contrast, there are few Montessori high schools in the United States.). Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Backers of project-based learning, and its hands-on relative, maker education, would argue that activities like these not only deepen understanding of academic content but also bolster creativity, persistence, problem-solving and related skills that are critical for success in a rapidly changing world. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

As school boards prepare to approve their budgets for the fall, many are grappling with how to make up for the yawning chasm left by the loss of federal pandemic-relief dollars. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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