The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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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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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. Students need their own hashtag.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

AVID (which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination) is animated by a simple belief: Once children begin to see some success in school, their self-perceptions will shift so dramatically that they’ll commit to becoming stellar students — and this commitment will propel them through college.

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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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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

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.

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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

JUNE 21, 2017

And so, armed with a plastic brain, a bowl of blueberries, and a hint of trepidation, I crossed the river to visit the Achievement Prep Academy , a public charter school in Washington’s Southeast quadrant. Related: Why is it so hard to stop suspending kindergarteners?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Their testimony amounted to a warning, though, of what schools may face when they restart this fall: kids with a history of mental health problems whose symptoms have worsened, students who maybe experiencing anxiety or anger for the first time, children in households that have become financially precarious and those who are experiencing loss.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A federal judge fully released the district from that order in June, and just weeks before the school year started, Beard and the rest of the board unanimously approved a voluntary plan to keep the district’s schools desegregated and ensure that students of color have equal opportunities to graduate and succeed beyond high school.

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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. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

There are no private segregation academies here, for instance, like the ones that drew white children and resources out of the public schools in more racially mixed counties after desegregation. There are also no charter schools in Kentucky, which have split public school resources elsewhere. We want your questions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it. The Southern Baptist Convention , Presbyterian Church in America , and the United Methodist Church have all publicly apologized for their racist histories.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well-financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend. Photo:Andre Perry.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Colleges defend professors’ rights to pursue controversial topics of discussion such as climate change, police brutality, charter schools and pornography. Rasmusen understandably has come under fire for a history of racist, sexist and homophobic social media posts. Protecting core principles matters — but so does leadership.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Public-school Failures. Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. The nurse pulled out her grandson’s hospital attendance log.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2020

The lack of presidential leadership contributes to the vast uncertainty we all face. School staffs will be downsized and student support services reduced if we don’t collectively fight for federal relief and stimulus spending to make up for the shortages. history will see it that way. We pay taxes for times like these.

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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 15, 2018

In the absence of her leadership, it’s incumbent on educators like Dan Morse to share classroom strategies. Teachers should stay focused on how the current moment relates to a long history of U.S. Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement . Related: COLUMN: ?Charter

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Jake McGraw, of the Jackson-based William Winter Institute, a social justice and racial reconciliation group, said lawmakers thinking of solutions must acknowledge the sum of barriers outside of school in places like Holmes: poor access to health care and the lack of economic development.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

history curriculums to include more diverse figures and perspectives; yet those who oppose such initiatives continue to receive the biggest microphones, despite being in the minority. Later, she went to work for Families for Excellent Schools, a group that was working to raise the cap on the number of charter schools in Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

I can appreciate Treme’s history as one of the first black neighborhoods in the country, but I don’t have the kind of deep love of its customs, its music, its street culture that my mom and grandmother share. The math scores are even more discouraging, with just 16 percent of voucher and public school students passing state tests.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Under SB 1159 , schools can recruit people without college degrees to their “school-based preparation programs” so long as candidates are enrolled in bachelor’s programs. Under existing law, Arizona districts and charter schools can create their own teacher-prep programs, with approval from the state board of education.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate despair-anxiety-indignation. ” Trump has called for a reallocation of $20 billion in federal funds and for states to contribute an additional $110 billion of their own education budgets toward education, primarily school choice programs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2021

The scenes from yesterday will live as one of the most disgraceful, infamous events in American history. Today I am hearing that school administrators are telling their educators to remain “neutral” as they discuss yesterday’s events. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The recent wave of blistering accounts from women about the sexual harassment and assault they have faced in their work not only exposes their abusers, it also reveals the grand failing of schools. Related: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. It may start small.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The chipped concrete walls and leaky windows visible at Palmer Park Preparatory Academy in Detroit are minor issues compared to a roof leak that went unaddressed for years before the school was temporarily closed for repairs in 2018. School staff worried they and the students were exposed to toxic mold.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. From there, participants heard about the history and present day efforts to protect the Wyandot burial grounds.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Then there was the curriculum. Parents, teachers, and students united in public backlash.

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