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

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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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 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. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. Efforts like these to transform high school are taking off, although hard data on how many high schools have adopted practices that harken back to preschool is difficult to come by. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S We say, ‘Of course!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. An assistant teacher secretly recorded the incident.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Foundations and even the federal government look to HBCUs because our social and human capital produces innovation,” explains Deena Khalil, assistant professor at Howard University, colloquially referred to as “the Mecca” of black education in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

When officials at Harrison School District 2, which serves some of the poorest neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, queried families that had not enrolled for kindergarten, most reported choosing one of four alternatives: home schooling, private or parochial school, charter school or skipping kindergarten altogether. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. School districts trying to hide actual discipline rates through practices such as masking expulsions as transfers will not be tolerated,” Thurmond said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. And the people who need schooling the most to make social mobility possible still get shafted, essentially.” Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

With these restrictions being so specific and tied to precious federal funds, most charter schools in New Orleans contract out food decisions to national companies like the one my school uses. These mandates align more closely with the lobbying priorities of corporate farms than medical advice.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. And making schools more flexible is a top XQ Institute priority. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school’s budget has been impacted by its financial disadvantage as a Type 1 Charter School, or a startup, which means its charter organization is responsible for building renovations and costs. Interest in the school was also affected by its location in a dangerous neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Gabriella Okparaoko, a student in the Automotive Technology program, participates in indoor track after school. Gabriella Okparaoko was accepted at two high-ranking college-prep charter schools. bus for an hour-long ride to school. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. to make sure she can catch the 6:20 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

One idea, for when we colonize Mars, is that all of humanity could spend a few years on the Red Planet to let Earth “rest.”. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders. Since Mars is not yet ready for human habitation, these kids agreed that cleaning up our current planet was a top concern.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. We for too long sorted and separated human beings based on disability,” said Causton.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Jaden Huynh, then 16 and a sophomore at Arvada West High School in a suburb northwest of Denver, circled the dinner table plating goi — a Vietnamese salad — and spring rolls for her family’s Easter dinner and silently counted all the empty seats for cousins and extended relatives. Credit: Jake Holschuh for The Hechinger Report. You got in?’

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

School discipline, she said, has been handed to police, who make “welfare checks” on students who miss online classes. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We We always call it the equalizer, because everybody has a shitty middle school experience.”. We’re fighting history.

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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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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?” They realize our Constitution is not self-enforcing.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?” They realize our Constitution is not self-enforcing.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Experts say offering age-appropriate answers to kids’ questions about humans as social and sexual beings lays the groundwork for those important (if still cringe-worthy) conversations about puberty and sex the kids will need when they’re teens. When no one has an answer, the problem is more or less solved.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. 7, the day after the attack.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery greets Chirlane McCray, the city’s first lady, at the awards ceremony and celebration in honor of Black History Month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on February 23, 2017. Look no further than KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First and Success Academies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Board of Education , the historic Supreme Court decision establishing that it was unconstitutional to segregate public school children. Board question because many among us still believe in segregation, and saying otherwise would challenge our life decisions, such as where we live and where we send our children to school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

School founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. Schools led and controlled by black people.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The creators of the Teach Reconstruction project are actively campaigning for the inclusion of lessons about Reconstruction in history and social studies classes. history when black lives mattered.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Immediately following the Saturday, Oct. Related link: How do we teach Black history in polarized times? The guide , released Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

People who know American history, specifically black history, don’t ask if we need HBCUs. They know that as soon as the Civil War commenced and enslaved blacks left plantations, they looked for new places to live and new schools to attend. We are still segregated because school leaders are not fighting it. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. The racial disproportionality in school expulsion looks remarkably similar to the disproportionality in imprisonment rates. The school-to-prison pipeline is alive and well. We’ve seen consent decrees between the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

Inertia in the face of this kind of vitriol reinforces the kind of schooling that fostered many presidents’ bigoted views – including Trump’s. . Leave this field empty if you're human: “Thinking about my immigrant students this morning and about the disgusting comments made by our president yesterday. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Related: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. Alabama can stand a remedial course in slavery and black history. In only evaluating one measure of success, schools are failing their students. Standardized tests are horrible predictors of how children develop into adults.

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