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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Weve all been there.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. At Stride Inc.,

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Nationally, controversy over opening a charter school is nothing new. You know how Ms.

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OPINION: How do we ensure that charter schools don’t exacerbate segregation?

The Hechinger Report

schools are becoming more segregated , many of which have more to do with community histories and residential patterns than they do with the schools themselves. The truth is that charter schools hold tremendous, untapped potential to serve as engines of diversity and inclusion. help to end school segregation?

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A Conversation About School Choice

Cult of Pedagogy

Last year, she published an extensively researched book about the school choice movement called The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ). There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

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OPINION: The charter school debate is more complex than either side admits

The Hechinger Report

.” 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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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.