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. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High.

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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 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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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

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

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families.

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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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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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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 7, 2024

The visit took place during the 2023 national social studies conference, which was in Nashville in early December. As it happens, Nashville is home to Nashville Classical Charter School , a K-8 charter network that has been working with us to adapt their social studies curriculum to the Four Question Method.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize. She tutored at two D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Unlike most urban classrooms, the ones at Boston Collegiate Charter School are evenly divided among white and black/brown kids and include first-generation immigrants, Irish kids and African-American kids from Dorchester — all from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and neighborhoods. immigration policy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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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. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

The father of three is also not keen on the states newly proposed social studies standards that would require biblical lessons starting in first grade. Speaking about the courts stay, Walters, through spokeswoman Grace Kim, said in a statement: The Bible has been a cornerstone of our nations history and education for generations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Once there, however, Siyuja discovered how little shed learned at the Supai school. history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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