The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. Related: Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school.

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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

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

JULY 28, 2024

Schools nationwide celebrate Black History Month enthusiastically, yet voice concerns about whether Pride Month should be recognized. Staff members urge schools to prioritize hiring diverse educators, yet advocate against using school budgets to update school facilities for all bodies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Board of Education that schools segregated by race did not provide an equal education. Students could no longer be barred from a school because of the color of their skin. School choice plays a role in recent segregation Why is segregation creeping back up again?

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. Indian Education Director Hollie Youngbear poses for a portrait at Watonga High School on Wednesday, Oct. government boarding schools. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

I work in a hybrid role with Copper Island Academy, a Michigan charter school that uses tried-and-true practices from Finnish education, including regular brain breaks, teacher collaboration and hands-on learning. It’s tempting to look at the country’s slumping PISA performance and blame the Finnish style of education.

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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. until 5:00 p.m.

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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. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

But to make more progress, experts say, schools must get creative to address their students’ needs. Related: Proof Points: The chronic absenteeism puzzle Across district and charter schools in Oakland, California, chronic absenteeism skyrocketed from 29 percent pre-pandemic to 53 percent in 2022-23.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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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

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. He’s inspired,” Tenorio said. “He He tells me every day what he learns.”

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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. Cedar, sixth grader, Bozeman Online Charter School.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

– Eric Tucker, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (New York). – Matt Miller, Lakota Local Schools. “If Brown, Reynoldsburg City Schools. “The education sector must build relationships and communities where students feel recognized and cared for, and where they can broaden their horizons.”. – Dr.

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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. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As caregivers of the future, it is crucial that we are aware of what and who our country does not want our students to know and help them discover the truth of their history for themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The top five school districts in the state have majority white student populations. The state’s two charter schools fared poorly on this first year of scores. Reimagine Prep Charter School received a D and Midtown Public Charter School received an F.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Schools that serve Native American students have a history of failure. In 2006, the Native American Community Academy (NACA) launched as a charter school in Albuquerque with the aim of increasing college enrollment in tribal communities, partly by incorporating native culture into the curriculum.

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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. Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time.

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 16, 2023

Last week, Jon wrote about Graham Delano , an awesome young teacher at Nashville Classical Charter School. I’ve begun to wonder if the way we teach history, or at least the way I do, trains students the wrong way. They can make a section for “where and when” and a section on who’s making history before they record events.

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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. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

“In the decades following McDonogh 35’s creation … perhaps no section of New Orleans experienced as much demolition, residential displacement, and redevelopment as this one,” writes Walter Stern in “Race & Education in New Orleans,” a thorough and pointed history of the city’s schools up to the start of desegregation.

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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. Related: Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. Espinoza helps restore the founders’ view of K-12 education, and Justice Alito’s concurring opinion in particular calls out the history of anti-Catholic bias of Blaine amendments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Gehlbach, together with two other researchers, put perspective taking to a real world test at a charter school network in the northeastern United States. His theory, and hope, is that students’ need or desire to misbehave might be reduced if they feel a positive connection with the teacher at the front of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. How well have you seen that approach go?

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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?”. The classroom walls of Mott Haven Academy Charter School are covered in student work.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less!

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

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. Related: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism. In front of the entire class, her teacher said, “Robert, we haven’t heard from you at all this semester.

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