The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. 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. Most still read at an elementary school level. Some couldn’t read at all.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. Content is hard.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Darryl Williford is assistant principal of the K-8 Michael Anderson School in the Avondale Elementary School District, where district leaders have encouraged a particularly data-driven approach to tracking student absenteeism, identifying who needs support and then focusing on relationships to address families’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Arise Academy in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward is part of the city’s diffuse network of nearly 80 charter schools. NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

I saw how overwhelmed they would get,” said Molina, who teaches at Segue Institute for Learning, a predominantly Hispanic charter school in this small city just north of Providence. tied to operations including addition and subtraction are a staple in elementary school classrooms across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2019

Do you think schools that educate low-income blacks separately are harmful? What about no-excuses charter schools that produce great results for low-income kids of color? The problem is when an all-minority school is the only option. There are other great charter schools like it. But it should be a choice.

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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. Most teachers at my elementary school had been there nearly a decade by the time I started school. These teachers were staying put.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Teachers Ivonne Kendrick and Milagro Nuñez lead preschool students at Houston Elementary School in a song during a time of “música y movimiento.” In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston Elementary School, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the fall season. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. Capital City Public Charter School serves students throughout the Washington, D.C. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year. More than 250 kids signed up for SpaRRk.

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The Hechinger Report

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

APRIL 25, 2023

In some cases, schools employ leaders who focus primarily on administration, not teaching, although decision making still happens collaboratively with teachers. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St. We all put in countless extra hours.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

The charter school, serving mostly children of color and students from low-income families, received one of the city’s highest ratings for preschool quality. WASHINGTON — Each morning at Van Ness Elementary School, the staff takes turns welcoming children just inside the front doors. Public Schools and the D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world. The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. Photo: Kevin Hagen. State Department Refugee Resettlement Area that houses families from dozens of nations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. They also normalize cisgender and traditional roles and views.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Erin and Sean Jett, whose house is so nearby they hear the school bell ring, did not have school-aged children at the time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2017

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters. where the elected school board doesn’t directly run any public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

. — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

He was joined by Nora Newcombe, who directs a federally-funded Science of Learning Center at Temple University and Mayme Hostetter, the dean of the Relay Graduate School of Education. When my kids got to elementary school, I quickly became aware that what their teachers were saying didn’t match what I knew about cognitive development.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So Lincoln Elementary, for example, houses only second and third grade classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We We take the tests.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

For example, we conducted a survey last year, in partnership with The Learning Accelerator, of the 994 public district and charter schools in Ohio. And, contrary to some accounts, blended learning is occurring throughout our public education system, in districts and charter schools alike.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., 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. PASADENA, Calif.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

The burdens that come with being retained are borne primarily by those students whom already are traditionally-disadvantaged by existing schooling practices. If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders. Thinking about charter schools.

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