The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. But you got a whole bunch of direct instruction schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. She turns on gospel music — a ritual she’s had since she began teaching 28 years ago — and sanitizes all surfaces. Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’.

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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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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

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. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. And that raises questions.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Across the country, local networks known as Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are bringing together partners and resources to meet urgent needs and envision a new future for teaching and learning. As districts shifted to digital learning in the spring, schools strived to ensure teaching and learning continued.

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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

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. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? The takeover in Jackson “ offers an interesting new model, departing from the more commonly used state takeover approach across dozens of school districts ,” Wong said. Other states allow the takeover of individual struggling schools.

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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. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments. Everything is online now,” Bey said.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

government discovered Black literacy was directly linked to Black resistance against oppressive systems, it became costly to teach Black people to read and write, then it was criminalized. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S. Eeee-maaan….kuh…Dedra,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Related: Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. In 2013, after more than a decade as an executive at Teach For America , I set out to develop a model that would empower promising underrepresented young people. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time. one year, five years, 10 years, 20 years, etc.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

For every student who leaves SFUSD, the district eventually receives approximately $14,650 less, using a conservative estimate of state funds for the 2022–23 school year. Over time, less money translates to fewer adults to teach classes, clean bathrooms, help manage emotions and otherwise make a district’s schools calm and effective.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

That’s the situation teacher and contributing Hechinger Report author Jennifer Rich found when she departed her leafy liberal arts college in Pennsylvania for an all-minority school in 1990s-era Brooklyn, her first teaching job. Related: Confessions of an all-white teacher in an urban school. government also acknowledges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. In addition, Khalil says Howard University and other MSIs are in competition with alternative route teaching certificate programs. And Where are the teachers of color ?

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. It’s due on this day.’”.

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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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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. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In

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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

APRIL 9, 2018

” Related: Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve. 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.

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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. Related: Should schools teach anyone who can get online — or no one at all?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The term describes game-like measures of knowledge and abilities, but also the tracking of skill development in playful learning activities, which was piloted over the past year by middle school teachers at Corte Madera and at Community Public Charter School in Charlottesville, Va., I couldn’t teach,” she said. “I

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

And making schools more flexible is a top XQ Institute priority. The prospect of more freedom appealed to science teacher Nikki Wallace when she joined the faculty of Crosstown High School, an XQ Institute partner and charter school in Memphis, Tennessee, which opened in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. It’s made me realize how a small group can do such big things.”.

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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. It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”. APPLETON, Wisc.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods. It’s something valuable,” she said about the opportunity for diversity in public school. You can’t buy it and you can’t teach it. Plessy Community School. Plessy Community School.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. But those networks never cross over.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In some cities, school buses now deliver daily paper packets of schoolwork, along with bagged breakfasts and lunches. In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. Cartons of milk are loaded into school buses to deliver to students and their families at Beech Street School in Manchester, N.H.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. There are no rivalries within the district and no real concept of socioeconomic status,” Osborn said. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

I really want to see us get away from teaching for a test and letting the test support the educators’ goals in teaching our children. Angelina Camacho, the parent of a second-grader in a Boston public school. The test should be illuminating the actual capacity of our students.”. I heard similar things from students.

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