Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

Thank you, Dan McDowell , for sharing how the Grossmont Union High School District in California is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2019

.” Take Elizabeth Warren’s recent attack on charter schools. million pupils, “strain the resources of school districts and leave students behind, primarily students of color.”. Carpenter, who is black, added “None of the schools in my community was working.” as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter 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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo. If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. Related: (Opinion) Throw the cookie cutters away: Remaking high schools for the 21 st century.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. No physics in high school. As the teacher for the next school year, the level of loss determines how much review time needs to be built into the schedule.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Snapshots include Covina Valley School District in Covina, CA, where the CISCO Networking Academies allow high school students to study the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies. At Liberty 53 Public Schools in Liberty, Missouri, the “UnSchool Challenge” offers students personalized internship opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A Mathematica study of 480 low-performing schools found that the federally funded turnaround efforts failed to boost math or reading scores or high school graduation or college enrollment rates. It seemed that the whole notion of quick school turnarounds was a misguided failure. The results weren’t great.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools. In the Anaheim Union High School District, we are always searching for new ways to share stories of student learning.

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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

JULY 23, 2024

States should provide financial relief, political cover and regulatory flexibility for districts that demonstrate solid plans and strong leadership. Not all urban school districts have bold leadership that can help them overcome the odds, even with strong state-level support. Have a Plan B. Inaction is not an option.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There are significant differences between schools where children start at or above grade level and where children start below grade level Schools where students enter at or above grade level Schools where students enter below grade level Schools where students enter below grade level, but students grow at least 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

They are far more likely to suffer low self-esteem, they increasingly fall behind in other subjects and they likely won’t graduate from high school. Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade-level by third grade are six times more likely to drop out of high school than their more affluent peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Colleen Collins, school director at CICS West Belden, works with students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Overall, total virtual enrollment remains higher than before the pandemic, but, in some cases, it has declined relative to its pandemic peaks, according to Gary Miron, a professor with Western Michigan University’s Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. The national public charter school network Rocketship Public Schools set aside nearly a full day every week for teachers to learn new skills related to distance learning. There are different approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said. Schools vary, but in schools where teachers have more voice, there is better retention.” In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

These tech teams offer a unique opportunity for students to take on leadership roles and develop valuable skills like problem-solving, teamwork, communication and critical thinking, in addition to increasing their technical know-how. And when the high school joined the one-to-one setup, there were an additional 1,800 devices.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In a study of almost 900 high school students at four different schools, the researchers found that the more high-quality collaborative learning experiences students had at school, the more that the students said they felt their personal learning needs were met and that they were adequately challenged and supported when they needed help.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Over the past decade, school officials in Fulton County, Georgia’s fourth-largest school district, have experimented with so-called personalized learning , tried integrating English language learners into mainstream classes, and introduced high school-level courses in middle school.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship). Joel Coleman, Superintendent, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind. Kat Kelley, Lead SEL Facilitator & National Board Certified Teacher, Austin High, Texas. Roundtable Participants.

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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

MAY 6, 2019

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Ten percent of high school seniors planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going. About half say they will enroll at a community college. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) a non-selective charter school in New Orleans. Related: How an unconventional principal used blended learning to help turn around a struggling urban school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado; and CICS West Belden, a Chicago International Charter School campus, discussed their efforts to personalize learning during a panel at the recent iNACOL symposium in Orlando, Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. I grew up speaking Spanish from birth, but I didn’t learn how to read and write [in Spanish] until high school and college,” he said. “I cried the first time I took a test. But it makes you smarter if you challenge yourself.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Some of the same researchers found in a separate study published by Johns Hopkins University that low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college. This transcends school type.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

She recently sat down with the Jackson Free Press to talk about education legislation, school funding and charter schools. If there’s any money leftover—(laughs)—I would invest in more rigorous coursework for our high-school students. What about after school? Wright lives in Madison County.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2016

Roger Cook, superintendent, Taylor County School District, Kentucky. By his own admission, this former high school football coach says some of his methods broke the rules. He believed his students needed personalized help to be successful in school – and in life – and took action to make that happen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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