ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset. While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Schools around the country are trying to staff up counselors and therapists, but experts say Alabama’s creation of a bridge role could be a model. Mental health service coordinators set up mental health awareness events, hold small group sessions with students and connect families with professional mental health services.

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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?”. But toward winter’s end, events risked cleaving that newfound consistency.

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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

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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Working in partnership with public school districts and charter schools, Malliron Hodge, director of community collaboration and design for Digital Promise, convened educators of color for seven regional Design Studios. To begin to address this systematic shortage, we turned to teachers of color.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren at a Warren Town Hall event at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday, October 20, 2019. Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. And she will ban for-profit charter schools outright.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2018

Rather than over-emphasizing traumatic events and defining students by them, let’s give young people the power to define their own experiences — starting with the assurance that resilience, a protective trait that helps kids recovery from adversity, can be taught. The post OPINION: The best time to teach students how to cope with trauma?

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Evelyn Livingston, a seventh grade student at Cameron Academy of Virtual Education in Cameron, Wisconsin, wishes her teachers gave students opportunities to discuss current events, such as the racial protests of the summer. Last spring, remote learning went so badly for Evelyn Livingston, 12, that she ended up switching schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District. Coronavirus Chronicles 020 – Arrow Academy Charter Schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2020

International Schools Services has a webinar series called Educators Supporting Educators: Transitions to Online Learning , which features conversations with and resources from international school educators. Coronavirus Chronicles 025 – International School of Amsterdam. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

In an event that could be called a love fest, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out her education priorities in a rollicking speech at the annual assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union. There was, however, one moment of discord. Bush-No Child Left Behind era.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District. Coronavirus Chronicles 020 – Arrow Academy Charter Schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District. Coronavirus Chronicles 020 – Arrow Academy Charter Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Match, like many of its peers in the rapidly growing charter school sector, offers an extended day and demanding curriculum filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes. In a later seminar, they discuss current events. The model isn’t easily replicated in school districts with large classes and few college counselors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2017

After doing presentations at various events in Longmont, Boulder and Denver, the 17-year-old senior said, “It makes me feel ready for anything that might come my way. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Students don’t live in schools. We limit students’ educations when we curb their access to museums, libraries, community events and other places where learning happens. Allowing kids to ride public transportation for free reflects how students actually live and learn. They live and learn in communities.

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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. van der Schoot emphasized the importance of forming visual representations of objects or events described through text for cognitive development. Photo: Kevin Hagen. De Koning and M.

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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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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. It just so happens a current event which is drawing my students’ attention has a pretty good connection to the past.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Philadelphia EdCluster work started with the ExCITe Center bringing partners together for both formal events with high-profile speakers and informal networking events. But those networks never cross over.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

In 2012, the state department of education and the New Orleans Public Schools established Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) goals, which aimed to steer contracts to underrepresented groups, including black and women contractors. The state reported that $146.2 million in DBE contracts had been awarded as of March 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

There were new faces – and perspectives – in the mix at the three-day conference in San Diego this week, and they could break the stranglehold of deal-making that has often been seen as the dominating feature of the event. An influx of public school educators at this year’s conference could help change the tone.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you don't, you're in trouble,” he said seven years ago at an event hosted by Bloomberg. “As We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We And he often uses the word “corrupt” to describe college. “If

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The public comes on weekends to swim in the competition-size pool, throw events in the recreation center and watch performances in the 700-seat theater. The school features geothermal heating and cooling, a high-tech computer lab and a two-story atrium. The middle school grades were phased into the under-populated high school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. As those ideas have produced less progress than anticipated, community school advocates hope their model can take over the mantle of reform. The stakes have become extremely high.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

The region also includes districts in both Missouri and Kansas, with schools using different curriculums and standards across the state line. And 20 charter schools, some with multiple campuses, offer more choices but also more fluidity. A move of just a few blocks can easily place a family in a different district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion. A foreign language teacher, Lisa Toivonen, has tried to fill in the gap by putting on events to encourage students to consider higher education, but Toivonen’s time and expertise are limited. It was a difficult job for me because I’m a face-to-face person.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. I was working in the trenches of the most confrontational aspect of education reform, trying to get laws passed to authorize vouchers, charter schools, tax-credits scholarships and education savings accounts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school’s budget has been impacted by its financial disadvantage as a Type 1 Charter School, or a startup, which means its charter organization is responsible for building renovations and costs. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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Letters and Ink Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Up until my junior year of high school, I went to school online. I begged my parents to let me go to a real school, and I got enrolled at a local charter school. Or you could host a Book Speed Dating Event ! Then I received my summer reading assignment. Now, I have always loved reading.

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

FOUR QUESTION STRUCTURE The Four Questions were designed to structure historical inquiry, but they work equally well when applied to issues and events in the present day. We start with a story, because you can’t think critically about events you don’t know very well. Question One is “What Happened?”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools. “If

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 7, 2024

Next year’s event will be in our hometown of Boston, and we hope to see you there. As it happens, Nashville is home to Nashville Classical Charter School , a K-8 charter network that has been working with us to adapt their social studies curriculum to the Four Question Method.

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