The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. Further, the group argued it might be necessary for virtual (or online-only) charter schools to be separated from the charter designation completely. “We

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut. In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. Research has shown that diverse decision-making bodies are better problem solvers than homogenous ones.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

When schools closed in mid-March, Kansas City was confronted by the region’s deep digital divide. LEANLAB Education has long cultivated a network of educators, policymakers, funders, researchers, and entrepreneurs across the region. By May, they had deployed more than $1.5 Supporting Parents with Statewide Helplines in Rhode Island.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. Researchers tracking state and local district data say Kemp’s situation is not unusual.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

An influx of government money enabled schools to hire staff and launch SEL programs, which include lessons about showing empathy to others, managing emotions and developing responsible decision making. Still, schools may need to rely on local district funding to keep SEL programs going when the federal grants expire.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The odds against these kids are daunting,’’ says Richard Kahlenberg , a senior fellow at The Century Foundation , a nonpartisan public research institute. Studies show that low-income students are more likely to drop-out of high school. Photo: Courtesy Match Charter Public High School. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. Pam Strobel, behavior interventionist, Lake Charles College Prep (LCCP) charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. Phil Bryant’s office, Jackson Public Schools, the City of Jackson, and the W.K. But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? Other states allow the takeover of individual struggling schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

But like other cities, New Orleans’ private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents’ attitudes toward black and poor folk. Research shows that students who attend diverse schools have higher academic outcomes, and they are more likely to work, learn and live in integrated settings.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. billion went toward the rebuilding of New Orleans schools specifically.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If, after class, you read tweets by the same professor saying that black students are “generally inferior academically to white students” and that members of the LBGTQ community only want marriage rights “to get spousal fringe benefits from the government,” you might find fault with your professor’s boss for not firing the prejudiced chauvinist.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Richard Carranza , the city’s new school chancellor, is now forcing a long overdue conversation about changing that racial picture, while acknowledging the difficulty of convincing white parents to believe what the research says: All children benefit from racial integration, something the U.S. government also acknowledges.

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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, student identified as Beatrice told researchers as part of a recent study published by the National Women’s Law Center. Some of the rules they describe are just plain silly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. Funding researchers at MSIs who study teacher recruitment and retention is a critical component of positive change.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Even if it’s remote learning, the eviction is going to have an effect,” said Lavar Edmonds, a research specialist at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Liz Willen.

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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. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. APPLETON, Wisc.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. HBCU talent can meet workforce demands if government and the private sector invest in programs that develop start-up businesses on campus. Trade Industry. Black-Owned Firms. Percentage Black-Owned. Underrepresentation Based on Education.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city. Their school building can be seen in the background as well as several green water storage tanks. They are participating in a discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But assessing these skills has been a weak link in these efforts, according to the education researchers at the MIT Playful Journey Lab , which hopes to remedy that with “playful assessment” tools. As researchers, we didn’t know how much these tools could be embedded without disrupting the flow of making,” Kim said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Back in Anchorage in the early 2000s, Michelle McLaughlin started doing research on her own to determine why her son, Michael, was falling further behind in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. Kennika Taylor, who has a third grade student in a charter school run by the Memphis Shelby County district, said she’s a hands-on parent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Twenty-seven large school districts, representing roughly 50 percent of the nation’s urban students, volunteer for extra testing so that they can have NAEP scores for their cities in addition to their states. Many blame the 2008 recession and the resulting drop in public funding for schools and increase in poverty among students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But the success rate that resulted in those savings has been questioned by some researchers, including Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, who says it is “unusually high.”. Related: New research finds it hasn’t gotten easier for poor kids to catch up.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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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. What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

JACKSON — In an interview with the Jackson Free Press, Mississippi Association of Educators President Joyce Helmick, an educator from DeSoto County, called charter schools “private charter schools.” Haley Barbour, appointed by Barbour to his commissions on tax study and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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