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One student is working on a chatbot that better curates movie and television show recommendations based on a viewers recent watch history. DENVER In Zach Kennellys senior civics class, students are building custom chatbots with artificial intelligence.

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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. The district has made gains because it is changing the perception of school and what it can offer, said Dennison, the superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A group of sophomore boys weaving baskets in an art class wish their school assigned more tests instead of oral presentations. If the activity seems a little too silly for high school, that’s by design. The leaders of City Neighbors High School have purposely included some time each day for kids to just be kids.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

She had taken and retaken the ACT, trying to get a score high enough to get into college, with a scholarship. The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. Money and attention turned to the new, privately run schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. Her uncle turned around in the front passenger seat.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. “You Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

At the heart of the issue is a history of biased institutional structures and systems that impede the path for aspiring teachers of color and stunt the careers of practicing teachers of color. Princeton School District (OH). DC Bilingual Public Charter School (District of Columbia). Legends Academy Charter School (FL).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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.

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APRIL 24, 2023

For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — It was homecoming week, and for the first time there was a buzz in the halls of KIPP Renaissance Charter High School about Friday’s big football game. Students were discussing plans to go, and alumni were coming by the school in the city’s 9th Ward to buy tickets. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For Zion, the school day starts at 9 a.m. The teenager’s classes in English and junior ROTC are taught by a district teacher, while history and math are self-paced courses via the online platform Edgenuity. The district had used Edgenuity before the pandemic and decided to keep using it for some high school courses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sophia Perry, a senior at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says her school has been lax in enforcing its mandatory mask-wearing policy. Sophia Perry, 17, a senior at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the return to in-person classes five-days a week. It blows my mind.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

An Idaho nonprofit group identified Twin Falls — where student enrollment is projected to rise by an additional 17 percent through the end of this decade — as a potential growth market for new charter schools. Susan Davis, right, helps students during study hall at Belgrade High School.

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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. But at this school, that’s not enough. Capital City Public Charter School serves students throughout the Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

At the heart of the issue is “a history of biased institutional structures and systems that impede the path for aspiring teachers of color and stunt the careers of practicing teachers of color,” writes Kimberly Smith , executive director of the Center for Inclusive Innovation and the League of Innovative Schools. My Voice Matters.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

Schoolwide, the share of students who were chronically absent declined from 35 percent in March 2023 to 23 percent in March 2024 — one of the steepest declines among Massachusetts high schools. But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. ACCELERATION.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

DeAndre Arnold has attended the Barbers Hill Independent School District his entire life; in high school, he grew his hair into locs. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School gave multiple detentions to twin sisters Deanna and Mya Cook for their hair extensions and prevented them from attending their junior prom in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

More than 50 percent of schools in Mississippi are rural, and rural schools notoriously struggle to offer college-level courses. Research shows this is due to several factors, including a lack of teachers certified to teach these classes and a lack of access to colleges that could partner with high schools for dual enrollment.

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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. Pam Strobel, behavior interventionist, Lake Charles College Prep (LCCP) charter school. It’s really not cool, especially in high school, to go to the counselor,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Every student at Mingus Union High School in Cottonwood, Ariz. However, last year the school decided to take a different direction in categorizing students. Feig Gray recounted how one of her teachers in high school history class shamed students in an attempt to garner greater involvement from the classroom.

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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. I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York. Fordham Institute. This story about rethinking U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going.

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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

MARCH 13, 2019

Some carry signs stating “All I Want For Christmas is a Clean White School” and “Save Segregation Vote, States Rights Pledged Electors” Bettman/Getty Images. Just over 100 years ago, the first public high school for black students opened in New Orleans. Stern (Louisiana State University Press, 2018).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. Her classes focus on computer systems networking; students earn certificates for jobs in fields like IT while also providing tech support to the high school. This story also appeared in Billy Penn.

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